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Atheists & Agnostics

Warpy

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4. It's especially hard for people who got sucked into prosperity theology

Reply to DavidDvorkin (Original post)

Mon Mar 21, 2016, 02:31 PM

Mar 2016

and the end timers who thought the world would end and they'd get raptured years ago, entertaining the rest of us with the sight of their nekkid selves being sucked into the sky. Both theologies have been proven to be hot air creating a vacuum to suck money out of their dwindling bank reserves and fatten the preachers.

It's not easy to be a believer after you've watched religion used as a smokescreen while a bunch of thieves looted you and your country.

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Fewer Americans now pray, believe in God [View all] DavidDvorkin Mar 2016 OP

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