ALBERTANS, THANK YOU! Today, I am thankful for the 18,000 #ForeverCanadian volunteers that trusted and supported me for the last 18 months. I’m also thankful for everyone who voted to keep Canada united. I’d like to drive the Unity Bus into a sunset, but there may more to do. #ableg #cdnpoli

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Believers can look this stuff up, and do. They're not dolts. But faith demands you believe in impossible things, that's what makes it faith. You *need* faith, it is both necessary and sufficient to believe in God. To find a way to kill people's faith ... it's truly extraordinary.

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Cynically, the eternal truths of religions are mutable and local. Jehovah's Witnesses were forbidden from joining the army ... unless they were in Bulgaria, who said the organisation would lose their tax exemptions if that rule stayed in place, so God was fine with the *Bulgarian* army.

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I know *a lot* of religious faith was shattered in the two World Wars, obviously religions schism and fade away, but I'm not sure there's ever been an example of a peacetime declaration from the priest class of a religion that's delivered a mortal blow to the religion.

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The monstrosity of kids dying after *opting out* of routine medical treatment was always obvious, even to the devout, but it was seen by them as a test of faith for the greater good. Trivialising it seems to have shortcircuited all cognitive dissonance, all other rationales and coping mechanisms.

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