On Tuesday, nearly 20 percent of the school’s 1,067 students were reportedly absent.

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      Which is mindblowing, because you’d think committing acts that would lead to the apocalypse would invalidate you from going to heaven.

      Keeping in their line of thinking, you’re actively destroying the earth and killing the people God created so you can selfishly get yourself into heaven.

      Olympic Gold-level mental gymnastics there…

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        I went to evangelical boyscouts (Awanas) when I was a kid. They particularly love the verses Ephesians 2:8-9(KJV): “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.”

        Basically, taken to mean “You’re going to heaven if you believe in the American Jesus (see: him on the interstate). It doesn’t matter if you are a genocidal maniac who breaks every single one of the Ten Commandments and strives to make the lives of food service and retail workers miserable because you’re still better than the most virtuous and philanthropic atheist (or Muslim/Jew/Hindu) because they are going to Hell. Oh, and free will basically means nothing because it’s all predestined.”

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      The greatest miracle Jesus ever created was living in the Middle East and looking like a white man.

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      But Armageddon already happened on - checks notes - the Plains of Megiddo.

      The Bible has very old roots, and its forward-looking statements are kinda suspect.

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      Not sure who you’re arguing with right now, but seems these republicans you speak of are more deserving of your shade.