Why do so many Americans insist in believing in obvious bullshit?
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>38% say God created man in present form, lowest in 35 years
Why do so many Americans insist in believing in obvious bullshit?
Jack White
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Andrew Morris
Because extremist branches of protestants. America was founded by super religious weirdos that were discriminated and hunted down in Europe.
Blake Scott
Creationism is truth though
Blake Davis
Why do Danes engage in sexual activities with sus scrofa domesticus?
Ethan Rivera
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Eli Morris
Explain
Nathan Cox
>America was founded by super religious weirdos that were discriminated and hunted down in Europe.
They were the oppressors, tho
Tyler Miller
Because pig pussy is fucking tight as shit.
Xavier Nelson
From the Gospel of John
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
David Morris
The Puritans were oppressors in Europe?
Luke Ortiz
>quakers
>presbyterians
>mennonites
>lutherans
>opressors
Jackson Watson
right-wing/rural retards
Ethan Kelly
>muh book said so
Aaron Gutierrez
Oh God yeah, the Puritans especially. They left because they wanted ultimate political power, which the Crown refused to honour. They thought the Church of England was 'too Catholic' and because nobody would honour their reforms, they left for the New World.
Isaiah Ross
God is calling you today. Can you not hear? His word is kind and true. Will you be prepared to meet him?
Angel Anderson
Got some good books or at least a wiki article on this whole fiasco?
Asher Flores
Those who refuse to listen to the one true God’s words are doomed for eternal damnation
Nicholas Hernandez
Quakerism was probably more popular in England. Nobody oppressed Quakers, we just let them open banks and businesses.
Jeremiah Flores
Liam Lee
But we don't have those in Europe, outside the occasional sect like the Jehova's witnesses, which everyone considers nutjobs.
Gabriel Perez
>The Puritans were in alliance with the growing commercial world, the parliamentary opposition to the royal prerogative, and the Scottish Presbyterians in the late 1630s with whom they had much in common. Consequently, they became a major political force in England and came to power as a result of the First English Civil War (1642–46). Almost all Puritan clergy left the Church of England after the Restoration of 1660 and the 1662 Uniformity Act. Many continued to practice their faith in nonconformist denominations, especially in Congregationalist and Presbyterian churches.[2] The nature of the movement in England changed radically, although it retained its character for a much longer period in New England.
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:)
Christopher Carter
Nigger what? The founders criticized Christianity. They were deists.
Angel Diaz
Carter Gray
Please stop.
Juan Collins
I watched The Witch recently by the way, it was great. This thread kind of reminded of it somehow.
Evan Butler
Yep, knew it, from the same article. Fuck Puritans
In 1660, one of the most notable victims of the religious intolerance was English Quaker Mary Dyer, who was hanged in Boston for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony.[95] She was one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs. The hanging of Dyer on Boston Common marked the beginning of the end of the Puritan theocracy.[96] In 1661, King Charles II explicitly forbade Massachusetts from executing anyone for professing Quakerism.[96] In 1684, England revoked the Massachusetts charter, sent over a royal governor to enforce English laws in 1686 and, in 1689, passed a broad Toleration Act.[96]
Isaiah Cox
I think that other user meant the first settlers, not the founding fathers.
Nathaniel Gonzalez
Absolute kino.
Michael Hall
When i mean the founders i'm talking about the citizens.
Completely ignoring basic scientific principles makes you any better? how could the earth be made in 7 days? You can't just go along with modern science when it conveniences you and then suddenly decide that they're wrong when it contradicts a 2000 year old book.
Colton Gonzalez
Thomas Jefferson removed all of the supernatural stuff in his own version for the bible.
Jack Morales
>because nobody would honour their reforms
Right, they wanted to be oppressors but they weren't
They left for the Netherlands, then America because they didn't actually have the power to do any oppressing in Europe
Levi Edwards
Agreed. I watched it the other day, but it's still stuck in my head somehow. Definitely the best movie I've watched the last couple of months outside of maybe Arrival.
Levi Ward
>Completely ignoring basic scientific principles makes you any better? how could the earth be made in 7 days? You can't just go along with modern science when it conveniences you and then suddenly decide that they're wrong when it contradicts a 2000 year old book.
I heard an interesting argument that the Jewish word which was translated to "day" is actually closer to the word "age". Thus when it says the world was created in 7 days, it does not mean literally 7 days.
Michael Lopez
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Leo Martinez
Deism is the true kino and redpill. A god or a supreme thing in the universe that does not interfere with its operation.
Carter Powell
Ok. Whatever makes you fall asleep at night.
Jack Morgan
kek also