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Atheist Argument
So on an atheist page I follow the admin posted this and then some random guy says
"This argument is fallacious you all blame God for the bad things in life when really it's people because God gave us free will" and then several atheists begin to bicker and argue with him over who is right and wrong for literally an hour straight before I even read any of it but they totally miss the point this dude is so full of himself for having used all these big words and was so sure he was so much smarter than everyone in that forum until I hit him with this:
"Your argument was flawed from the start because you misunderstood the whole post. The post is simply calling this man out on his bullshit that if there was a god why in the world would he want
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