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This summarizes the strategy of the atheists ever since they started pretending 'separation of church and state' was in the constitution, and worked to make their dogma the official state religion.

Inherent tendency towards sin.

You're both assuming things of me that are false, and asserting things that aren't rational. There's no point in trying to reason with you on this.

They can and will try, and they have slaughtered and enslaved millions over the centuries in their efforts. I consider that pretty relevant to how to regard the two religions.

My post that you were replying to was entirely about the practical threat of Judaism vs Islam. So you raised this 'Noahic law' issue entirely facetiously then?

You know, I actually took the time to read through some of the article you link here. Fascinating quote: "In practice, Jewish law makes it very difficult to apply the death penalty.[49] No record exists of a gentile having been put to death for violating the seven Noahide laws." Did you even...

You are seriously comparing 'do not tolerate the worship of idols in the Kingdom of Israel' to 'go and conquer the world, put to the sword all who refuse to convert to Islam?'

An active mandate to commit religious genocide seems like a pretty relevant reason to prefer or not prefer a group.

That kind of sick mind is a tragedy, both for him and for everyone else.

I've read a fair bit of history, and the answer seems to be: "Defeated repeated attempts to exterminate them."

The video that you posted showed secondary detonations. While there are other places this can happen in other places like industrial facilities that process explosive gasses or chemicals, it's primarily in munitions stockpiles, especially if there are multiple small to medium secondary...

The whole premise was 'The allies don't have the guts to finish Nazi Germany off,' which is why I raised the possibility of nuclear cowardice.

Years behind, yes, but if you gave them another twenty or thirty years... The point of my post is that there's basically no reason to think that stopping the war and letting the Nazis remain in power would have had remotely better results than what we actually got.

If it had 'only' lasted to the 60's/70's, it would have killed far more people, and without the sharp, comprehensive ideological defeat of fascism, and decades of children being indoctrinated into it, even if it failed, you'd still have hundreds of thousands to millions of hardline adherents...

Let's take this as a given. We now have two parties to a war; Israel, and Hamas, both of whom lie. Which of them is less reprehensible, and why?

Hamas are spreading lies about civilian casualties, while putting their bases in/under ostensible civilian structures, and having their fighters enter combat in civilian clothing. This is absolutely nothing new on their part. Why are you repeating their nonsense?

The issue with the 'social safety nets' is that they're actively destructive to the sorts of people they're supposed to 'help.' It isn't a matter of being tight-fisted with money, it's a matter that when you incentivize bad behavior, you'll get more of it.

First off, no, the military is not the largest part of the government budget. Social programs are. Second, cutting taxes usually increases government revenue. Granted that only goes so far, and I do want to cut taxes past that point, but they can still substantially drop without hurting the...

What I would actually prefer is a flat sales tax, as low as possible. I expect we could get it down into single digits if there was any kind of fiscal responsibility in the government.

I'll reiterate; part of why I think replacing income with inheritance tax would be a good idea, is because it's so much easier to legally get around.