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Demon Erasers

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

So if this is the mechanism, if I am truly loving, I'm going to make that mechanism effective.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

And if you look at religions, it's ultimately ineffective.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

And that's why we have so much disagreement.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

That's why you and I are sitting here having this debate is because the whole mechanism through which a relationship with God is conveyed to people is highly, highly, highly ineffective.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

If it wasn't ineffective, we would not have atheists.

Digital Social Hour
Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

We would not have a disagreement amongst religions and all of that.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

Well, to me, though, it's a lack of intelligence that comes from being unobjective.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

And being objective is dealing with facts without distortion created by emotions.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

And so I think that people, because they've been raised with religion, it's tied to their identity, they have some kind of crazy experience, they end up in prison, they want to know that, oh, this is part of God's plan, on and on and on.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

There's all these emotional reasons that cause them to pull a bag over their eyes and tell themselves they believe.

Digital Social Hour
Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

And that's what I did for the longest time.

Digital Social Hour
Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

And when I finally pulled that bag off of my eyes and was intellectually honest, that's when I experienced peace.

Digital Social Hour
Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

Why would a loving God allow demons to exist and fool me?

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

Oh, that's simple.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

It's simple.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

I'm just telling you.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

It's simple to you because you have this entire construct.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

And I'm trying to tell you that when you're objective and you reject that construct, it's not really simple.

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

Did he make me?

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Bryan Calcott vs Demon Erasers : Do You Need Religion to Be a Good Person? | DSH #1596

So then because of free will, people suffer, and that goes back to now you're negating that God is all love.