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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t even have to look to know they are already claiming it’s fake 😂

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Yup.

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 2h

Wow! How embarrassing for them

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 2h

Good night :)

Yeah religious identity is the top factor in voting preferences in 🇺🇸 and it’s been that way since white evangelicals launched their culture war in the 1990s. Race is second. So it’s hot topic

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 2h

You get it now?

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 2h

But definitely no matter what, if you elevate any portion of Republicans or especially white evangelicals, atheists will immediately judge you even if we are not anti-theists and don’t say anything to you about it. We hate their guts for a good reason.

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 2h

Well. If you get on this app which is chock full of Americans, and then interact with atheists about the supposed moral superiority of believing in god, we will only double down on our atheism. When you see loud anti-theists on here, they are looking for a fight; block them instead of feeding them.

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 2h

Saying they weren’t real Christians bc they didn’t go church weekly. it’s so gross

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 2h

Christians here even tried to blame Trump on atheists by saying “oh he pulled in extra Christians who don’t go to church” while ignoring the clear evidence that weekly church attenders voted for him three times.

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 2h

You claim to have a problem with MAGA but I promise you Christian moral supremacism is part of why they are the way they are.

Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 2h

Christian moral supremacism is a problem bc nearly all Christians think they are morally superior by sheer virtue of believing in Jesus.

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 2h

But that’s how Christians create the association of atheism to immorality and create anti-atheist prejudice all by themselves without atheists even having to be there. It’s universal in Christendom.

We are innocent in that stuff

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 3h

A lot of people in UK say they’re not religious but when you ask them about their beliefs, most are not atheists, and atheists really are different from other “not religious“ people in a variety of ways.

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 3h

It’s especially wrong when atheists are not the ones causing a problem

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 3h

No. That’s scapegoating atheists for things that Christians are doing. That’s wrong.

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 3h

So it takes away from religious credibility enhancing displays, which has been shown to cause some disbelief

Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 3h

Yes even w/o forcing, just having religious leaders tied to politicians guarantees some degree of subtracting from the religion’s sacral nature. Politicians have to compromise by nature of their job. Everyone gets sick of the govt at different times so that translates to seeing religious hypocrisy

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 3h

It’s something I have to keep explaining to the Christian nationalists here. Populations secularized faster where Christianity had more state support. They think they can get atheists to vanish if 🇺🇸 govt supported their Christianity

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 3h

?? Only like 20% of UK is atheist. And the church is still established there, which is part of the reason UK population secularized faster than US

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 3h

I didn’t say it for several years bc I was scared of people. But the actual atheism goes back to about 17.

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 3h

Late teens to early 20s is when most people figure out what they’re going to be, and then it sticks for life. That’s the same timeframe I started saying I’m an atheist.

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 3h

I also think humans are still constrained by natural patterns and fertility declining with population explosion, before abortion was made legal, is evidence of that.

Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 3h

I think atheism is a rejection of god claims, so to me no one is born atheist. Infants are just neutral innocents.

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 3h

It was my dad pushing the JW. My mom was raised Catholic and she tried to convert for him but we didn’t have any more religious education after he died

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Heather Leisure, NSPM-7 Wrongthinker 🪷💛🍦 @duchovnik.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you but your friend is probably really is an atheist and we don’t blame god for stuff bc that is weird. I‘ve noticed it’s common for evangelical types to look for reasons to disbelieve real atheists exist.

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