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Projection at its finest. It's "college." Check out yours and take a basic English Composition class.

Please explain what the benefit is of lowering corporate tax rates then? Why do corporations invest so heavily in buying politicians to lower their rates? If it's ultimately the consumer that pays them, what does it matter? Your argument doesn't hold up to the barest amount of scrutiny.

Probably people who can spell "corporate." And um...corporations? If they didn't stand to gain billions upon billions of dollars, why would they send their team of lobbyists to capitol hill to bribe lawmakers - oops, I mean "contribute to campaigns" - to have their rates lowered? Buying a politician is the wisest investment one can make.

You've just been tricked is all. The tax cuts that you are currently touting that apply to you? Those go away by design in just a few years. The tax cuts for the wealthy and corporate tax cuts? Permanent. Also, have you looked at the deficit recently? How about that national debt? The ones that daddy trump said he'd take care of? Oh he took care of it by kicking the can down the road. Don't be so short-sighted. Try to extrapolate what's going to inevitably happen in the long term. So your challenge to tell me how you've been harmed is based on the premise that we're only looking at a short period of time - a few years at best. But when you look at the data, there's a nasty storm on the horizon. You might not care about the mess you're leaving your kids and future generations because you've got a few extra bucks in your wallet today, but my responsibility to my kids can't be be bought, and if it could, it certainly wouldn't come that cheap.

Yet the conservative mindset ignores this basic principle when they argue about tax cuts for the wealthy. No matter how much money you save corporations (to the detriment of the middle class), they won't create new jobs unless there is an independent fluctuation in the market need for whatever widget they make.

You're welcome

I didn't think I could be any more floored by this situation until I read the full 15 pages of his opening remarks. I had hoped he would fill in the blanks about the phone calls in between and boy is it worse than I expected it to be.

Sounds like the time I got a permanent ban from Walmart.

Lying is ok as long as you flagellate yourself afterwards and ask for forgiveness, amirite? I don't think you're convincing anybody. That was a serious response in your mind, I'm sure, but it oozed with "Thank you for proving my point that you were never a 'true' Christian." Anybody else get that vibe? Because, unlike Ron, I'm willing and able to practice self-reflection if I've made an error in my perception.

Oh it must have been that Satanic protection ritual I did. Glad that kid didn't die for nothin.

Maximum points awarded for a superb troll-like response. This hollow "Thank you." couldn't possibly smell worse of contempt. Well done; you've left no doubt on how elitist you are about your brand of woo.

Blowing toward something would be problematic. Think of people who work in the service industry: bartenders, waiters, even cooks. You spill alcohol on yourself all the time, or get it spilled on you. When I was in the service industry I remember getting pulled over a few times on the way home from work and the smell of alcohol vaporizing off of my clothes was so strong in the car that I had to go through a dog-and-pony-show of a FST to prove I wasn't under the influence.

Yeah I can't remember who the joke is attributed to, but it's something like: Religion is like a penis. There's nothing wrong with having one; you can even be proud of it! But the moment you go wagging it in mine or my kids' faces, we're gonna have a problem.

I too was once in bondage to the church. I'm so glad I found my way out.

Nice deflection you got there!

Way to ignore that you actually proved that christianity is dying. (snicker)

Also, this chart doesn't jibe with real numbers: it undercounts the world population by over 1B people in 2010. Also: projected world population for 2050 is 9.7B. So even with your questionable data here: in 2010 Christians made up roughly 36.7% of the world population. In 2050 that's projected to drop to 30.1% of the world population. So...you just proved it's dying. Congratulations.

Nice 10-year-old projection. I unwittingly made a false claim. Not a big deal. Never in history has someone performed an atrocity "In the Name of Atheism." It's a nonsensical prospect. Atheism is literally just the answer to one question: Do you believe in a god or gods? Yes=deist/theist, No=Atheist. It has no other meaning tied to it. There is no dogma to induce people to do bad things. Has anyone ever done anything evil in the name of religion? You don't need to answer that. It's not an even playing field, so I won't drag you through the mud on it.

Also referred to as confirmation bias and shared hallucination.

Oh isn't that convenient? Most of the protestant types refer to getting baptized as being "born again." You take it to a whole different level. One that can't be confirmed by anyone else who doesn't have your super secret decoder ring. Again: how incredibly convenient that you, Ron, are the arbiter of what makes a christian a true christian.

Abort me, daddy!

bahahahaha

The phrase "born again" gets used a lot and with different meanings; perhaps you could clarify what your definition of this nonsensical term is.

Lots of false equivalence here. First of all: there is no other comparative period to the information age. So: jury's out. Except it's not really. See the Pew research information above. The "no religious affiliation" group has grown substantially in the past 20 years, and churches are shuttering at a record rate, though the population continues to go up. Makes you think. Or maybe not you specifically, but makes a statistician think. I don't know what group you are referring to when you say "you guys." I don't belong to a group. There's a distinction you're missing. While it can be said that the Lutheran dogma is Z and the Methodist doctrine is Y and the Roman Catholic doctrine is X (or XXX with little boys, if we're being accurate), there is no dogma that I follow. I have no leader. So when you say "you guys," I'm not really sure what that means. I'm not affiliated with Stalin's regime (I'm not even a little bit Russian), and my people never threw Christian leaders into gulags. No more than your people are responsible for the burning at the stake of young women in Salem. I wouldn't accuse you of that, because it would be inaccurate and indecent. Also: my predecessors...? Again, I'm not sure who you're referring to. My predecessors would, in my mind, be my ancestors: the Lutheran Germans who fled during the rise of the Nazi party. They certainly didn't turn churches into public toilets or atheist museums. Also: I do not read every thread. If it was said before, link it and I'll happily admit to the error.