Religion Ted Cruz: Atheists shouldn't be president

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  1. MARIS61

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    Lying Ted is one of the swamp’s chief obstructionists to Trump, and not taken seriously by most conservatives.
     
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    Cruz votes with Trump 91.9% of the time, according to fivethirtyeight.

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    google search "support for atheists" ...what there is no evidence for is a heaven with a god and angels ...we have a thread about being alone in the universe somewhere though...and that hell down below with a Satanic master...that's yet to be proven as well...that people have faith in the possibility is another matter.
     
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    Ted is occasionally useful for his vote. I will not be voting for him to be president. He is the classical example of a man that will use faith and the faithful to no good. The very example of why we
    need Democrats to be democrats, for balance, not obstruction.
     
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    I started a thread about earth being unique several months back.

    Yes there is logic to support the those with faith of some kind in a deity.
    This man provides the logic more than any other if you like logic and mathematics.
    Kurt Gödel
    https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel/
     
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    Was it evidence because you couldn't find something else to attribute it to? Still, that evidence probably wasn't strict enough to outline the specificity of an organized religion.
     
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    Huh?
     
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    Does this mean Reagan was wrong for postponing a Summit because his wife said it would be bad because the stars said so?
     
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    Try to understand infinity. You can't. That's something I attribute to God.
     
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    I guess I am God, for I understand infinity.

    Bow down before me.

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    I sincerely doubt that.

    Infinity is bigger than ANYTHING you can think of. All we know is that it's really really big.
     
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    Checkmate, Atheists.
     
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    I think we've arrived at the point where president should be elected like jury duty....might actually attract some talent to the job
     
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    Sounds like you understand it just fine. Perhaps we are both gods.

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    First of all, fuck organized religion. Those institutions have done more to set mankind back than anything else man has ever created. Second, it was evidence (to me...and my opinion is the only one that matters in these particular instances) because there were no other earthly explanations (including “coincidence) for them. You need to rid yourself of the notion that others have to believe in order for what you know to be true to be “real”. I know what I know and that’s all that matters at the end of the day, the week, the month, the year and the life. You can call me a fool, but I believe that those who don’t believe in some kind of afterlife that rewards or punishes those who live this life to be the real fools.
     
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    to have an afterlife assumes I've had a life to begin with!
     
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    Agree 100%, on every topic.
     
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    I have the same sentiments towards organized religion.

    All I know is things are subjective. I definitely think here is some sort of spiritual world or dimension based on a many different things, but since none of it's physical and it's based off experience, then nobody should be limited based off any belief that's not hate-based.
     
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    I don’t hold strong atheistic views but I lean that way. But what I don’t want is governing based on any religion. We have folks that want sharia law, folks who want the Bible taught in school, folks who want contraception banned and all sorts of other dangerous BS based on religion.

    I do typically trust very religious people to treat me kindly and be respectful. I don’t trust them to do what’s required for our community to grow, develop and progress towards a better tomorrow.
     
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