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I live in an area where fires are frequent and aerial cables plentiful.

Once in a while, a crew comes around and picks up all the broken cable. But considering these are mostly glass, non insulated cables, I'd risk it just becomes another inert part of the soil.

Hopefully, there will be a retrieval plan, after all the madness ends.

That's Easter. But since you mention it, there was a time when coal was to be given to the bad kids, which by default were all the non-white and not poor kids.

Bigoted enough for you? I grew up still listening echos of that shit.

I think it is mandatory. There is a very precise rite to declare a pope as deceased.

There is being atheist and there is being anti-theist.

The way you express yourself, it seems you lean more into the second. Which I find intriguing because in order to be anti-theist, you first need to give any value to the theist claims.

As you do seem very invested in supporting and uplifting those that are wronged by a creed, why do you opt to attack any and all believer, by default, instead of trying to find people that share your exact concerns?

It doesn't matter if someone takes Santa Claus, the Krampus, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy as real or if they hold the hope of meeting again their loved ones after they die. People are here, today, living, breathing, suffering.

The bending and changing of those same "holy" precepts is what allows people to diverge abd evolve the way they understand others and the world.

Anti-theism fell out of favour in the 2010's. Too much vitriol. Reason does not cancel hope and dreams but it should cancel hollow arguments, including those reason itself raises.

Then start by the first line priests.

Those can be some of the worst individuals in the church, and some of the best, at the same time.

There are incredibly forward thinking, humanist and humane individuals acting as local parish priests, individuals that entered the ranks for personal calling and devotion, doing their best to push back on backwards thought and belief on "pious" communities. Those should garner wide support, when it is the exact opposite that happens, with usually the most reprobate and closed minded individuals being seen as "good" priest and thus rising in the ranks, to keep the status quo, one generation after the other.

Institutions are made of people. That man did little but achieved something to move the creed in a better direction. Most just tend to small affairs or outright go for even more dogmatic understandings of outdated subjects, which by itself drives away more people.

Now that I think about it, as reading or being knowledgeable of what any "holy" book holds is the best way to create atheists, maybe those are doing the best job.

You are hard pressed to be more of an atheist than I am.

You expect dogma to be nullified with a snap of finger? Even more when that same dogma is taken from the book on which the creed is built upon?

As if people require any sort of excuse to shun and persecute those who are different.

I find it more important countries to codify into law the right for anyone, regardless gender or sexual orientation, to enjoy the same rights, including marriage if so they choose but like it or not, a man forcing that small change into a monolithic, organized, religion is something to be recognized.

This was tbe same man that said being homosexual isn't a crime and doesn't merit persecution for it, albeit by the catholic creed being a sin.

An insult is only as long someone allows it to be.

Downvote away.

Looking from the outside, I'd expect to see or read leaks of Senate and House of Representatives stormed by some obscure security agency on the basis of preventing a coup.

I respect your statement but, please, keep yourself first. Too many men overwork, overstress and overexert themselves to death, having been told a man always puts himself second to his duties.

Stop this nonsense.

You're as deserving of time to yourself, to rest, to care for your body and mind, as any member of your family.

Take care of yourself so you can take care of others, brother.

The notion that an entire system, predicated on contrarian powers keeping each other in check, is failling one time after another to rear one of its branches to over step its authority is mind boggling.

I'm running the same desktop for nearky 14 years and I have two laptops that are over 8. Still daily use.