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    21% of U.S. adults are fully illiterate. Another 33% can’t read better than an elementary school student.

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    In case you’re talking to a Christian, most believe that everything is a part of God’s plan, even the things they don’t like.

    It’s honestly more interesting that this doesn’t match up with the “do you identify as a Christian” stats. It would imply that there are a significant percentage of Christians who think that Trump is outside of God’s plan. Maybe God didn’t have Trump in his bingo card?

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    God’s plan also includes deadly plagues, global floods, and turning people into pillars of salt.

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      That’s why we must conquer heaven and kill god before his cancerous existence spreads any further.

      Also hell too, but they are not the main enemy. Heaven and God are. They are the real monsters.

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    I refuse to believe a third of a country can be this stupid. I can’t even believe that a third of a country can believe in god.

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      1/3 of the country is conservative if you think about it. Look at polls and it’s usually 30-40% republican/conservative. 10-20% being “independent” and that’s being generous 50-60% Democrats/liberals.

      Those that vote not the ones that don’t.

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      Won’t change shit. Young Internet incel males have turned to the right for a sense of identity. You’ve got another 60+ years waiting on for them to die off

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        This is literal propaganda.

        More genz men lean left than older generations, every progressive generation becomes more progressive.

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      And the culturally “Christian” boomers like those Episcopalian sorry excuse for “clergy” trying to please the world instead of God.

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        No… the devout Christians trying to destroy the world and all people in it are the ones we need gone.

        The lukewarm Christians who love and cherish other people should stay.

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            Well, if they don’t care about the world at all, as you desire, and follow a religion all about the end of the world, the only reasonable thing for a Christian to do is to hasten the end of the world as best they can.

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              How could a Christian hasten the end of the world if that’s up to God the Father to decide?

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                Well it isn’t. Cos gods not real.

                But Christians like to ignore climate change, stoke political violence and ensure as many people as possible die to preventable disease.

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                  Ignoring climate change, political violence, and dying due to preventable disease has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity. If anything, it’s quite contrary. A devout Christian would not be doing those three things you’ve mentioned.

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    If you ask a Christian “Do you think God personally…” and they answer “No.” then how are they a Christian? It’s weird how around 66% of people say they are Christian but they don’t all believe the part where God is revealed by history unfolding. All things are part of God’s plan… but not that!