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   Nicholas Sarwark (nsarwark@universeodon.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 23:22:48 JST Nicholas Sarwark

   “One aspect I may not have much of a grasp on is how people’s faith affects their views on these things. White evangelical Christians have a view on death that is, frankly, impossible for me to understand from outside. They regularly talk about welcoming death, and see things like eagerly encouraging the deadly final reckoning of everyone in the world as a positive that they want to accelerate. This leads to oddities like supporting Zionism because they’re in a hurry to have Jews die in an apocalyptic final battle, which they think is being nice to them? I will readily admit that I can't coherently explain this position; it is hard for me to understand death cults.”

   https://www.anildash.com/2020/07/11/the-american-death-cult/

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     Nicholas Sarwark (nsarwark@universeodon.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 02:07:10 JST Nicholas Sarwark

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     • Steve Foerster 🌐

     @stevefoerster You don't have to read things you disagree with.

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     Steve Foerster 🌐 (stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 02:07:13 JST Steve Foerster 🌐

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     @nsarwark I'm happy to read essays from perspectives other than my own, but this one lost me by starting out with an intellectually dishonest leftwing caricature of how most people who don't share their views define freedom.

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     Steve Foerster 🌐 (stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 06:21:04 JST Steve Foerster 🌐

     • fu

     @fu @nsarwark Are you asking whether it's new that people are catching on to intellectually dishonest arguments, or that such arguments themselves are new?

     I don't know whether either is the case, but I do think that we're at or near a polarization peak, and that lends itself to the latter, which in turn to the former.

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     Steve Foerster 🌐 (stevefoerster@social.fossdle.org)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 18:42:44 JST Steve Foerster 🌐

     • fu

     @fu @nsarwark I'm unsure who "normies" are in this context, and I'm also unsure how to make what I said more clear.