• @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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            31 month ago

            “Didn’t Vote” could as easily be “Any/All” as “None”. Also discounts the voters who were legally disenfranchised or otherwise discouraged from participating.

            Hence “not a democracy”. Voters don’t pick their politicians. Politicians pick their voters.

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      1 month ago

      27%

      A Christian (or, really, anyone who believes in predestination) thinking “X is Part of God’s Plan” is perfectly consistent with their understanding of the world.

      It’s the Christians who don’t believe this who are being irrational

      • potoooooooo ☑️
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        31 month ago

        Those Christians would be inconsistent, but all Christians are irrational by definition.

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          11 month ago

          Rationality is predicated on inputs and outputs. If you’re surrounded by second and third hand accounts of divine mysteries, it isn’t irrational to accept them as true absent some more compelling data. At least, no more irrational than believing in dinosaurs or the Big Bang Theory, without ever actually having seen a fossil or learned about the significance of background radiation.