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Halloween is definitely evil. I end up eating way too much candy!

While not actually set up for it (the party existed long before the KKK), the Democrat party was certainly quite racist decades ago and supported the KKK. However, in the 1960s and 70s, the "Southern Strategy" began to flip the two major American political parties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy For the last few decades, the extreme racist groups have been 100% behind the Republican party. It is true that a very large proportion of atheists are Democratic.

It does seem curious, @ayin jade, that the quoted comment was apparently acceptable, or at least not worthy of reprimand.

I have no doubts that someone wrote this. Most modern day conservatives in the US are not particularly bothered by false statements as long as the issuer of the false statements is waging the correct battles. You can tell this by how many are devoted to a particular former President. However, the truth is very easy to look up on your own.

Limbaugh was evil and was a liar, regardless of how you believe Christians should vote.

There is definitely less urgency for young, healthy individuals to be vaccinated, but the evidence does not support this claim.

The same can be said regarding the imaginary “the vaccine is worse than COVID” lines we continue to hear.

Responding to your posts with facts is useless. Could you please stop tagging me in your posts?

There was a very sad incident recently when a local and well-loved high school teacher fell off his roof and died several days later. When my daughter was talking to one of her professors about the incident, another student demanded to know if he had been vaccinated.

"The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God." -Michael Faraday

Accuracy in reporting is not exactly a Worthybot hallmark.

It wouldn’t be a shock at all to learn that the CDC screwed up. It has been much less than it should be for a good decade or so now. Having said that, what they report is the closest thing we have to fully accurate information.

This is true. I would feel more comfortable talking about vaccine safety if the number of vaccine-related deaths was actually available. Unfortunately, it isn't. However, the best guess is considerably lower than the VAERS number because of the requirements for physicians to report these to VAERS - regardless of any suspected connection to the vaccine.

1. We don’t know what the actual number of deaths confirmed to be vaccine related. 2. Whatever that number is, it is orders of magnitude lower than the number of deaths caused by the virus.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/vaers/index.html

Exactly. I've essentially given up on attempting to use facts, logic, and reason to convince certain people of their errors. I think it was Jonathan Swift that first used this quote - “It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”

You are free to tell yourself that.

This is what I found when I looked up William Thompson Whistleblower. https://www.immunizationcoalitions.org/content/uploads/2017/01/Vaxxed-and-cdc-whistleblower.pdf There still remains no evidence that links autism to vaccines. On the other hand, there have been many genetic factors that have been discovered that link to autism. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncel.2019.00385/full

Why don’t you try posting something that is accurate some day? 😂

This is not correct. This was the opinion of a single physician, not the NIH. It was a letter to the editor of a journal. No, a letter is not an article. Articles have data and peer review. A letter does not.

Yes, 100% agree.

If we reject any theological "camps" because there may be leaven in them, then we must reject them all. There is a little leaven everywhere you look.

I obviously don't know everyone that identifies as a progressive Christian, but I suspect that most would agree with you here. That's why I am reiterating the point that theological belief systems should not be either rejected or accepted in their entirety. Look into the details to see what matches the Bible and what doesn't.

There are many who label themselves as "progressive Christians" who are in clear error. There are also many who label themselves as "conservative Christians" who are in clear error. As the article suggests, individual elements need to be carefully weighed and considered. The entirety of a movement cannot be categorically rejected or accepted.

This is not an article, this is a letter to an editor. This is someone with medical credentials given the opportunity to publish their opinion. This is also proof against the oft-used, yet erroneous, claims of censure.