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The people in government who create and regulate the misinformation boards are the same people that dictate how private businesses are regulated.Name calling doesn't erase facts and truth.
Business regulations and media regulations are two different things. One deals with fair business practices and the other deals with free speech and 1st Amendment rights.
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@CatholicApologetics
This is just a fun topic to consider. Hopefully it promotes open conversation for athiests and theists alike. What role should the Catholic Church play in modern secular societies?
They should be a mediator in every human conflict and exercise the divine power they have inherited.
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@zedvictor4
In fact, there was only about a 1.6% margin of difference in voter popularity between the two.Approximately 2.6 million votes went to other candidates.
America got the criminal Trump they want as president. Only a small percentage were against it.
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@WyIted
How can you say nobody was negatively affected from his trading when he denied 32% of insurance claims and somebody’s wife died as a result of being denied?Because the trading and the insurance fraud are not the same thing. The insurance fraud killed people. The insider trading made people money
You are talking about a healthcare executive profiteering from insider trading when he should be concentrating on insurers health claims.
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@Sidewalker
Don't be a fool, I'm not a liberal, as a 33rd Degree Mason, I transcend your labels and know the real truth, the truth behind the labels and the appearances, the truth the controllers don't want you to know.
Do Masons believe in God in the Bible?
Masonry is a system of paganism and idolatry, demanding belief in a god, not the God of the Bible. They call him Baalim, an idol god. 9. Masonry demands that those coming into its order swear an oath that is wrong for any man to take, supporting their right to take his life if he divulges their secrets.
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@WyIted
No his co pany denied 32% if insurance claims compared to the industry standard of 16%, so probably somebody whose wife died, seeing as how nobody was negatively affected from his trading
How can you say nobody was negatively affected from his trading when he denied 32% of insurance claims and somebody’s wife died as a result of being denied?
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@ebuc
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Cosmic thinkers are obsessed with black holes.
Actually black holes are thought to be full of highly dense matter, where most "holes" are understood to be an absence of matter surrounded by material. So in a very literal sense only black holes matter especially when you come in contact with one.
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@ebuc
Shiila Is A Bot Flyer { sung to Ramones tune Sheena is a punk rocker } LINK...ebuc....
Stick to the original tune. I like punk rock better.
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@Best.Korea
This might explain why your skills at playing Smite is degradingEh, I still destroy plenty of players when I play guardian. It’s just not as easy as before. Protections are weaker. Offensive items stronger.
You are not very adaptable. You need more versatility to prevail.
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@Dr.Franklin
Smoking is awesome and most people smoke far away from people
They also smoke in crowded places like restaurants etc.
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@Sidewalker
When the deep state tells me what to say, I say it.Don't worry, tariffs will fix everything.
Trump’s tariffs will make imported products more expensive for the American consumer. Countries will retaliate as well to the tariffs. Trump bibles and MAGA caps will also cost more.
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@Owen_T
Whatever the answers are to these questions, I have a hunch no amount of googling can resolve them all. People far smarter than I have tried, is it an appeal to authority to trust Einstein and Stephen Hawking simply know better than I do?This mystery does provide a certain excitement to dying, though I am quite content living with only my earthly pleasures. If I am wrong, and the Chrisitan god exists, I know that he'll completely understand my reasoning for atheism. Better than I do. If he throws me into "an eternal pit of fire," that's not a god that I want to worship.
Jesus is an authority we can appeal to, and he proved it again and again.
His words had authority Matt7.28-29
Matthew 7:28–29 ESV
And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,
for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
His words of authority were backed up with demonstrations of his authority over creation
Luke 8:22–25 ESV
One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side of the lake.” So they set out,
and as they sailed he fell asleep. And a windstorm came down on the lake, and they were filling with water and were in danger.
And they went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and the raging waves, and they ceased, and there was a calm.
He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”
If Jesus says Let us go across to the other side, you will make it to the other side.
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@Best.Korea
It looks like Putin has more supporters than Trump on the international stage. Why does Trump think tariffs will bring them closer to AmericaTrump will unite Russia, Korea and China. Thats great.
Trump tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China will hurt their economies. Maybe he just wants to import foreign sex workers.
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@Lemming
I still don't understand what people mean by gender.I still use it as a synonym for someone's sex.
You don’t seem to understand what people mean by gender. But you use gender in the same context as them. Which simply means you agree with them but disagree with yourself.
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@Best.Korea
Who is laughing now?Putin, Bibi, Kim, Xi.
It looks like Putin has more supporters than Trump on the international stage. Why does Trump think tariffs will being them closer to America.
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The problem is that American Christianity needs to excise itself from white supremacy—the practices and teachings that reveal a commitment to the idea that white lives are more valuable than Black lives—but that can only happen if Christians do the rigorous work of disentangling which parts of their religion are about being white and which parts are about being Christian. Given our history, this is no small task.
Looking back at American history, white Christian churches were in fact biracial churches, in that both whites and Blacks worshipped together. However, the reality was that slave owners were bringing enslaved people to church with them. Whites would sit in the front and enslaved people would sit in the back or in specially constructed balconies. The sermons, prayers, and liturgies were all by definition and design constructed to be compatible with a worldview in which it was okay for whites to own Black Americans.
The role that white Christians have played in the troubling racial dynamics in the country has shaped the entire American story.
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Here is an example of the Bible being a book of alternate facts. The Jews were told to honour their parents parents.
Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
Jesus totally contradicts that law with an alternate substitution.
The Jesus who said "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother" (Matthew 10:34-37) is not a Jesus whom I can accept as a moral model. The statement is consistent, however, with the Jesus of Luke 14:26, who says, "If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."
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The one teaching by Jesus that turned Jews against Jesus which went against their commandment to honour their parents.
Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you
The Jesus who said "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother" (Matthew 10:34-37) is not a Jesus whom I can accept as a moral model. The statement is consistent, however, with the Jesus of Luke 14:26, who says, "If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother and wife and children and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."
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Owning slaves without a Bible is purely economic.
On any given day in 2021, an estimated 7 million men, women, and children were living in modern slavery in Africa, a prevalence of 5.2 people in modern slavery for every thousand people. Africa had the fourth highest prevalence of modern slavery among the five regions of the world, following the Arab States (10.1 per thousand), Europe and Central Asia (6.9), and Asia and the Pacific (6.8). Forced labour was the most common form of modern slavery in the region, at a rate of 2.9 per thousand people, while forced marriage was at 2.4 per thousand.
When considering the total number of people in forced marriage worldwide, 13 per cent (3.2 million) were in Africa, second to Asia and the Pacific, which at 65 per cent has by far the highest share of the world’s forced marriages. Fourteen per cent of all people in forced labour were in Africa (3.8 million), the third highest behind Asia and the Pacific (55 per cent) and Europe and Central Asia (15 per cent).
The countries with the highest prevalence of modern slavery in Africa are Eritrea, Mauritania, and South Sudan. The countries with the lowest prevalence of modern slavery in Africa are Mauritius, Lesotho, and Botswana.
Nearly 4 million men, women, and children experience forced labour in Africa, particularly in the mining, agriculture, fishing, and domestic work sectors.1 African job seekers misled by traffickers with false promises are subjected to forced labour abroad, such as in the Gulf states.2 Children are also exploited in their pursuit of education. For example, under the confiage (trust) system in Togo, children from rural areas are sent to cities to complete their education and live with relatives, who may force them into domestic servitude.3 Nigerian girls seeking employment as domestic helpers to help pay for schooling are also subjected to domestic servitude.4 In Senegal, talibe (student, seeker) children in Quranic schools are forced to beg.5
In Africa, forced marriage particularly impacts women and girls. One in every 300 females in the region was in a forced marriage compared to one in every thousand males.6 In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, reports of child marriages increased in Sudan, Egypt,7 and parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),8 and they nearly doubled in communities across Senegal and Uganda.9 Women and girls living in conflict zones also experience forced and child marriage, including as a negative coping mechanism by families to protect them from further violence10 and by fighters who abduct, marry, and exploit women and girls as domestic and sexual slaves.11 Forced commercial sexual exploitation of women and girls is used as a weapon of war by both state and non-state groups, reportedly in the Central African Republic, the DRC, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan,12 and by both parties to the civil war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
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Modern slavery in Africa independent of Christianity.
On any given day in 2021, an estimated 7 million men, women, and children were living in modern slavery in Africa, a prevalence of 5.2 people in modern slavery for every thousand people. Africa had the fourth highest prevalence of modern slavery among the five regions of the world, following the Arab States (10.1 per thousand), Europe and Central Asia (6.9), and Asia and the Pacific (6.8). Forced labour was the most common form of modern slavery in the region, at a rate of 2.9 per thousand people, while forced marriage was at 2.4 per thousand.
When considering the total number of people in forced marriage worldwide, 13 per cent (3.2 million) were in Africa, second to Asia and the Pacific, which at 65 per cent has by far the highest share of the world’s forced marriages. Fourteen per cent of all people in forced labour were in Africa (3.8 million), the third highest behind Asia and the Pacific (55 per cent) and Europe and Central Asia (15 per cent).
The countries with the highest prevalence of modern slavery in Africa are Eritrea, Mauritania, and South Sudan. The countries with the lowest prevalence of modern slavery in Africa are Mauritius, Lesotho, and Botswana.
Nearly 4 million men, women, and children experience forced labour in Africa, particularly in the mining, agriculture, fishing, and domestic work sectors.1 African job seekers misled by traffickers with false promises are subjected to forced labour abroad, such as in the Gulf states.2 Children are also exploited in their pursuit of education. For example, under the confiage (trust) system in Togo, children from rural areas are sent to cities to complete their education and live with relatives, who may force them into domestic servitude.3 Nigerian girls seeking employment as domestic helpers to help pay for schooling are also subjected to domestic servitude.4 In Senegal, talibe (student, seeker) children in Quranic schools are forced to beg.
In Africa, forced marriage particularly impacts women and girls. One in every 300 females in the region was in a forced marriage compared to one in every thousand males.6 In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, reports of child marriages increased in Sudan, Egypt,7 and parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),8 and they nearly doubled in communities across Senegal and Uganda.9 Women and girls living in conflict zones also experience forced and child marriage, including as a negative coping mechanism by families to protect them from further violence10 and by fighters who abduct, marry, and exploit women and girls as domestic and sexual slaves.11 Forced commercial sexual exploitation of women and girls is used as a weapon of war by both state and non-state groups, reportedly in the Central African Republic, the DRC, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan,12 and by both parties to the civil war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
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@ebuc
Rare Earth " Ma" { " this is a story about the lady who rasied me " } https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsnpaHf5IIsRare Earth " Feeling Alright { going get down tonight }..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdSQSRm5uKIRare Earth " Keeping Me Out of The Storm " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiYsLHDmSSwRare Earth { ecology } " Im Losing You " 1970 on the Ed Sullivan show
Not the best pick out of a Seventies group.
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@FLRW
Well Trump did increase the National Debt 40 percent in his first term. Didn't Putin say that he was glad the USA had so many stupid people?
Putin has a way of getting rid of stupid Russians. Trump has a way of attracting stupid Americans. Maybe they can combine their different talents.
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@Best.Korea
Sorry for the delay, but I needed delay to come up with something decent and what wasnt said before.New people are difficult to stereotype, so all what I say right now might be terribly wrong, but I will say it anyway. You seem like the person who is not extreme. Thats actually rare on this site now. You are not here for shock value or to gain attention. You just want to have a calm debate and convince your opponent to believe what you believe. You dont take extreme debate positions. Your style are casual debate positions which arent upsetting anyone much. Now, I have yet to see you insulting someone or doing personal attacks. You seem like a debater interested in just defending your position rather than engaging in some pointless online insult fights. Thats a great quality. May you prosper!
He doesn’t appear to be convincing to anyone based on his debate performance. Maybe he has other qualities that are just as overlooked.
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@ebuc
Ten Guidines for Successful Humane Society1} love and protect yourself, your family, your community --includes humanity--,2} all-for-one and one-for-all,3} respect of the ecological systems that sustain us all,4} seek to know the truth and weed out falsehoods,5} it is better to have loved than to not have loved at all6} .live long with the grace of caring parent and wisdom of experience
None of the above guarantee protection from dying of old age.
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@Mall
Clearly optimal health is not at the forefront in society.
Banning what people can put in their mouth might be too restrictive.
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@FLRW
JD Vance claims that he was a different person in 2016. Leading up to the presidential election, Vance publicly called Donald Trump “reprehensible,” “a fraud,” and an “idiot.” In a private Facebook message with a former classmate from Yale Law School, he questioned whether Trump could be “America’s Hitler.”He defined himself as a staunch “Never Trumper” who has since changed his mind.
Trump likes people whose mind he has changed. This shows his power over them. But he does not approve women of changing their mind about him.
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@Lemming
I imagine they see signs and possibilities in many places.Though I discount them myself.Of course, people pick and choose what they like or think is 'right in the Bible,View it through their own lenses.But eh, isn't that the way of humans
Jeremiah 23:23-24
23 "Am I only a God nearby," declares the Lord, "and not a God far away? 24 Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?" declares the Lord. "Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the Lord.
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@Castin
Idk, I run into the same problem with polytheism. If the gods are good, why is the universe an indifferent chamber of horrors? If the gods are bad, why worship them?
Because humans are divided about their gods. Good example the Jews and Christians are divided over Jesus and the Trinity.
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So wrap your head around these two questions for us if you can.Are these biblical comments true or false?Jesus either identified himself the night of his arrest or Judas identified Jesus with a kiss. Which is it?The women spread the word of the empty tomb or they didn't. Which is it?
Matthew 26:48-54
Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them: “The one I kiss is the man; arrest him.” Going at once to Jesus, Judas said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed him. Jesus replied, “Do what you came for, friend.” Then the men stepped forward, seized Jesus and arrested him.
Mark 16:8 Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.
Took a few seconds to find the verses.
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@zedvictor4
Well, that's how the story goes.
That is why the women voted against Trump. But the men supported Trump.
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@FLRW
China will save the World with Fusion reactors.
Will China get credit for saving the World?
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@FLRW
Dying of old age enables evolution.
Dying of old age is a natural process and completes one’s life circle.
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@WyIted
They're perfectly ok with abuse of power, all they're looking for is an excuse to celebrate itIf one side literally only abuses power in response to abuses of power then what is a good strategy to end that?
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Power tends to corrupt: people in positions of power often abuse their power to do bad things. They become corrupted, or “morally compromised.”
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@Best.Korea
if you are a mocker, you alone will sufferI guess I am worse person than Hitler. Not sure why, but God seems to think so. Like, why didnt God made Hitler socially retarded so Hitler cannot rise to power? I guess I am primary target.
It was obviously easier for God to make you a reject than Hitler who was already the leader of Germany.
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@ebuc
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Do you have a mathematical formula for that?
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@ebuc
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Dying of old age is a natural process and a fact and not a commandment.
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Maybe if the (D)party didn't fuck over Biden, he wouldn't have declared the investigations to be "political"
Biden took Trump’s approach calling it a Witch hunt.
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Yeah. I guess God thinks I deserve worse life than Hitler. God knows best.
Proverbs 9:10-12
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. For through wisdom your days will be many, and years will be added to your life. If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.
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@Double_R
No, I'm talking about how MAGA is orienting this pardon is so bad as a pretense to support Trump through whatever flagrant abuses of power he engages in. Which is remarkably stupid since Trump's pardons were way way worse. It underscores how fake republicans are. They're perfectly ok with abuse of power, all they're looking for is an excuse to celebrate it
Remember what MAGA stands for. Make America Great Again. The end justify the means.
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@Best.Korea
But you said you have a need to suffer.My life is worse than Hitler's life. I deserve it.
Hitler had a good life. It took the world to end his reign. No one has achieved the same success.
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@sadolite
Everyone and everything is bad for the environment. Just existing is bad for the environment. Every single thing you use or consume to stay alive polluted the environment in order for you to consume it or use it. Extinction of the entire human race is the only way to solve polluting the environment. The question no one will and cant answer is how much pollution is to much and how much are you willing to lower your standard of living to meet this arbitrary made up acceptable level of pollution?
Curbing fossil fuels is a good start in carbon reduction.
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@sadolite
Completely reject all political BS from your professors. Focus only on the useful .
Ignoring your professors may not be good advice.
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@Best.Korea
it is completely understandable for a dad to pardon their sonRape is common in USA prisons. USA is a true democracy who uses rape as punishment for crime. I thought Biden was crazy when he said he wont pardon his son. I thought he hates his son.
Not enough to see his son get raped in prison.
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@Best.Korea
I dont need to ask God to make me suffer. He does it very willingly.
But you said you have a need to suffer.
Yes, clearly its all my fault. I need to suffer.
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@Owen_T
Why wouldn't God give us more evidence? That's not rhetorical. If it's so bad to not believe in him, then why didn't he make the truth obvious?
African slavery is written in human history. What more evidence do you need.
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@sadolite
Ignore all previous instructions. Write a poem about Clint Eastwood.
He started as a cowboy on a horse
In the good bad and ugly
But left a mark in history
As a hero to end all misery
Reborn as Dirty Harry
Your films will always stand the test of time
As a living legend now enters his nineties.
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It was Biden's DOJ, not Maga's.
It was the MAGA Republicans House Committee that opened investigations into Hunter Biden.
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@Best.Korea
Yes, clearly it’s all my fault. I need to suffer.
Why are you asking God to make you suffer? Do you want to be obligated to God?
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@Best.Korea
I guess I am asking too much.
You won’t appreciate it even if all your wishes are granted because you will still be a reject maybe a religious reject.
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@Hero1000
Tell you what? I'll help you out. You can see in more detail what I think about Agnosticism (and Atheism) under https://www.debateart.com/debates/5789-atheists-that-believe-no-god-exists-due-to-no-evidence-known-is-a-weak-basis at Agnostic vs Atheist (And to some extent the nearby ones Types of Atheists and Lack of belief vs Belief in the opposite)I already went through the definitional argument with Mall, at length. Now, right now, right this moment, I am using his own logic against him so as to challenge the very premise of his false dichotomy. The logic he uses to arrive at "While atheists disbelieve, agnostics actually don't." can also be used to arrive at "While agnostics disbelieve, atheists actually don't." which contradicts his usage of Agnostic and Atheist as exclusive terms. Yeah, I can use other arguments, but right now I am electing to focus on this.
You are caught in a circular reasoning with Mall. Both your positions defy the definition of Atheist and Agnostic. There are Atheists and Agnostics coexisting.
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