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This is from Jose Padilla's Grand Jury indictment.

Padilla also publicly stated his objective at the Capitol on January 6 in no uncertain terms: to "dissolve the legislature, and replace it with Patriots who were there. Then simply re-adopt the Constitution with amendments added to secure future Federal elections." See SOF at 9. He told a police officer that he sought to destroy the "machine" that governed within the U.S. Capitol. See Hr'g Ex. 2. His comments take issue not simply with the 2020 presidential election, but regard a broader years-long struggle against a government he perceives to be illegitimate. See id. ("This war has been upon us for years and we've just been wringing hands about it."); see also Hr'g Ex. 10. And he demonstrated a belief that force is justified to counteract government measures that he personally considers unlawful. His words, as well as the nature of his actions, thus create "ample reason to believe that [the] fight is not finished for [Padilla]," even though the transition of power to the current administration has come and gone. See Sabol, 2021 WL 1405945, at *18. Indeed, Padilla's own statements suggest that his fight has just begun.

I'm guessing that the 855,008 people that died from Covid in the USA don't think so.

I too would vote first degree for both of them.

Any system of reason depends on axioms, which are unprovable within that system. (See Gödel for why.) So, since axiomatic reasoning follows what those axioms entail, all reasoning is axiomatic.
By contrast, circular reasoning is a fallacy. (It is also called "begging the question", though I prefer using that term to refer to unconsidered implications.) It starts from that assumption, and then concludes that assumption. The statement is logically vacuous.

If you have a brain that joins together 100 billion neurons with 100 trillion connections, then the answer is yes.

I don't have a book of Hitler's speeches, do U?   I ought to get that printed on a coat.

Right, according to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump once told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that her husband, real-estate mogul Donald Trump , kept a book of Hitler's speeches near his bed.

Well stated.

Free speech is not an absolute good; it is not an end unto itself. Free speech is an instrumental good, one that promotes a higher good: seeking the truth. That’s the canonical account from John Stuart Mill that still underlies much of our thinking around free speech today.
But free speech only fulfils its truth-seeking function when all agents are speaking in good faith: when they all agree that the truth is the goal of the conversation, that the facts matter, that there are certain standards of evidence and argumentation that are admissible, that speakers have a duty to be open to criticism, and that there are many modes of discourse that are inadmissible, such as intimidation, insults, threats and the wilful spread of misinformation. Mill assumed all too readily that such good will was commonplace.

     Praise the Lord ! 

Thanks for showing that it doesn't make any difference if there is a God or there isn't a God.

California Deputy DA Who Fought Vaccine Mandate Dies Abruptly After Falling Ill With COVID at Age 46.

Kelly Ernby, a presumed candidate for the state Assembly in 2022, was only 46 years old. According to the Los Angeles Times, she fell ill shortly after speaking out against vaccine mandates at a rally organized by Turning Point USA on Dec. 4.
“There’s nothing that matters more than our freedoms right now,” she was quoted telling the crowd during the rally at Irvine City Hall.
It was not immediately clear where or how she contracted the virus. Her death has sparked an outpouring of tributes from colleagues who praised her for her passion and experience.

This week, China switched on a nuclear fusion reactor. The “artificial sun” is known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (or EAST for short). After turning it on, China noticed record high levels for sustained temperatures. According to China’s state media, the EAST reactor ran five times hotter than the real Sun for over 17 minutes.

Well stated.  Are you a Kingsman?

Benjamin. you do get it.  Worm man does not get it.

This is proof of determinism. And also proof that we live in a simulation.

Matthew 24:29  “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

You know that I am an atheist, don't you?

OMG, you are saying that God is not real?

Yes, Muhammad split the moon after the pagan Meccans asked for a miracle. 

     Well stated.

If there is a God.

Your kid gets run over by a drunk.

You die from cancer.

          " Donald Trump sent us "

Hitler rose to power because he told a Big Lie. Millions of people believed that Big Lie because they held more sinister beliefs; millions more likely didn't believe it, but weren't willing to denounce it as an outright lie at the time.
The same dynamic is true regarding Donald Trump's claim that Joe Biden stole the election from him. It is a Big Lie being embraced to advance a racist, anti-democratic agenda. Anyone who doesn't stand up to that Big Lie today would have likely been complicit in Hitler's Big Lie last century.

Trump should be in prison for trying to overthrow a national election.

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Stephen Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow state in their book The Grand Design that it is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God. Both authors claim that it is possible to answer these questions purely within the realm of science, and without invoking any divine beings.

I think that the President of a debate site should have won more debates than he lost. That is why I am voting for RationalMadman.

According to the latest Pew research, the American Catholic population has declined by 3 million in the last seven years. Today 41% of people who had been raised Catholic are no longer Catholic. Some have joined other churches, while others have no religious affiliation.

Yes, the contradiction is if Jesus is God’s “only begotten Son,” then how can angels and Christians also be God’s sons?

The interpretation of Genesis 6:1–4 is difficult and controversial. The debate centers on the interpretation of the phrase “sons of God.” Who are they? The crucial question concerns whether the phrase refers to human beings or to spiritual beings (demons).
The full passage reads:
When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 120 years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

Well stated.

How come God didn't send  venomous snakes to  kill them like he used to do to other people that did wrong?

Yes, if the Maury tv show was on then, he would have looked at the dna test results and said, " God, you are not the Father!"

Yeaaa!, I'm back on the Most active members.

Nearly 1,700 priests and other clergy members that the Roman Catholic Church considers credibly accused of child sexual abuse are living under the radar with little to no oversight from religious authorities or law enforcement, decades after the first wave of the church abuse scandal roiled U.S. dioceses, an Associated Press investigation has found.

A section of the Holy Umbilical Cord believed to remain from the birth of Christ is currently in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran.

 Although you can get pregnant without having sexual intercourse, pregnancy without sperm is impossible. How did God get sperm into Mary?

Naturalistic thinking and knowing, the tacit, experiential, and intuitive reasoning of everyday interaction, have long been regarded as inferior to formal reason and labeled primitive, fallible, subjective, superstitious, and in some cases ineffable. It is the type of thinking that created a God that banged a 14 year old virgin to get his son.

Has anyone seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)?  Poly thinks she is Nurse Ratched of this mental institution.

Stephen is just Jack Nicholson.

Remember that religion came about when early man was looking at his rotting leg and 3 dead kids. He said that God must have a plan for this, so lets start a religious movement to praise Him. Remember that it is "Him" because God was created in Man's image. Does anyone know why God created Down syndrome?

The population of people with Down syndrome in the U.S. has been estimated to be over 400,000.

Yes to all your questions. Atheists should not have churches . The English language word "church" is from the Old English word cirice, derived from West Germanic *kirika, which in turn comes from the Greek κυριακή kuriakē, meaning "of the Lord" (possessive form of κύριος kurios "ruler" or "lord"). I think the spiritual future of Man is Gnosticism.  Gnostics focus on eradication of ignorance.

Look into Gnosticism. Gnosticism is the belief that human beings contain a piece of God (the highest good or a divine spark) within themselves, which has fallen from the immaterial world into the bodies of humans. All physical matter is subject to decay, rotting, and death. Gnostics focused on eradication of ignorance.

Jesus is identified by some Gnostics as an embodiment of the supreme being who became incarnate to bring gnōsis to the earth.

Einstein definitely did not fail at high school. Einstein was born on 14 March in Ulm, in Germany, in 1879. The next year, his family moved to Munich. At the age of 7, he started school in Munich. At the age of 9, he entered the Luitpold-Gymnasium. By the age of 12 he was studying calculus. Now this was very advanced, because the students would normally study calculus when they were 15 years old. He was very good at the sciences. But, because the 19th-century German education system was very harsh and regimented, he didn’t really develop his non-mathematical skills (such as history, languages, music and geography). In fact, it was his mother, not his school, who encouraged him to study the violin – and he did quite well at that as well.
In 1895, he sat the entrance examinations to get into the prestigious Federal Polytechnic School (or Academy) in Zurich, Switzerland. He was 16, two years younger than his fellow applicants. He did outstandingly well in physics and mathematics, but failed the non-science subjects, doing especially badly in French – so he was not accepted. So in that same year, he continued his studies at the Canton school in Aargau (also called Aarau). He studied well, and this time, he passed the entry exams into the Federal Polytechnic School.
So the next year, he finally started studying at the Federal Polytechnic in Zurich (even though he was now one year younger than most of his fellow students). Also in the year 1896, even though he was only 16 years old, he wrote a brilliant essay that led directly to his later work in relativity.
So he definitely did not fail his high school, and definitely was not a poor student.

There is no record of Einstein flunking or ever getting low marks in math. Albert Einstein was an all-around good student with exceptional grades in math and science, according to the biography written by Albrecht Folsing. The statement that Einstein was a poor student is pure myth.

Yes, from a previous post of mine.

     No