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The decent discussion of religion and politics has been driven out of the public sphere by contemporary barbarians. There is no reasonable discourse any longer. The new Atheists of today miss the entire point, but moreso they fail to realize how many times their exact argument has been made before, often by the religions members, in the case of St Thomas Aquinas and Catholicism.
Really I was personally an atheist for a very long time until I actually studied theology and history. I've found current dialogues to be distasteful and even militant against religion. Specifically Christianity. It's never against Hinduism, or Shinto or anything else. Its only Christianity. I personally blame the lack of thoroughbred response from the Christian community, I partially blame protestants for their mega churches, and utter trivialization of the faith. This belief gap so to speak, has led to militant atheism, and outright disrespect and dismissal of religion, even saying its child abuse to be raised in a religious family.
It was really weird making the turn around from Atheist to Catholicism. But its been positive.
I havent been to 7chan in awhile, so hopefully I won't be too swiftly ridiculed.
I wish the best for all of you