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            ^^ low ranking soldier defending from the onslaught of the truth what he learned by rote.

     The truth arrives soon anyway.  It doesn't really matter during which administration.

   Yes, on your end as already noted.

   Have you tried turning your computer off then turning it back on again?

   There's a lot of that going around.

   I'll try again.

   There are facts, opinions, and what is found in the dictionary, labels. These are three very different things that people often get confused, especially you.

   Here are some facts. People who are Christians considered as a group have higher divorce rates, earn less income, and have less education. These are "facts" because it can be difficult and usually unnecessary to present false information about these metrics.

   The people in any other religion typically have lower divorce rates, earn more income and are more educated. These are also facts.

   It is a fact that Christians compare to atheists in these metrics. A fascinating question is why? What do these two otherwise markedly disparate groups have in common? It can be obvious from their own reports that both groups have no fear of a god. Many Christians have no more moral code to follow than atheists do. It seems to follow that such an attitude could possibly lead to laxity in various affairs. It is also possible that a general laxity was present to some degree first and led to such attitudes. Whichever the direction or directions we have our suspect.

   Now we have to write the story. A problem is what to call the various groups. The dictionary, or yours anyway, has no term for "religious people not counting Christians." When I try to develop a term to address these facts you complain that I may not separate Christians out from other "religious" people because your dictionary defines Christianity as a "religion." Now we see the problem. It is indeed on your end. Your are trying to establish a "fact" about "Christianity" or "religion" based on one dictionary definition of questionable application to the facts at hand. You never learned as I did that the dictionary contains no facts. Your severe and crippling mental limitations make it highly difficult to distinguish mere labels, facts, and opinions.

   I explained to you that as usual I accommodate my definitions to the facts at hand while you as usual try to accommodate the "facts" (you do not have) to the definitions, which is not the correct way of doing things. You do it that way because you have never solved a problem in science yourself your entire life. You simply copy things from what you imagine to be authorities.

   Because you and some people who call themselves Christians simply copy from what you imagine to be authority the result is that you are not capable of engaging reality.

   One way to resolve this problem is for me to use all new terms like the "circumspect" and the "lax."  The problem evades your dependence on your total misunderstanding of terms.  Notice that the "lax" group now correctly includes Christians and atheists.  The "circumspect" group now contains all other religions except Christianity as widely practiced.  Now your dictionary is powerless to object to the facts.  It might also be noted though that quite many definitions of religion and Christianity are already in wide use and the dictionary has typically been little to no help organizing the groups.  Notice also that my definitions are more practical than yours.

   I'm saying the same things I've ever said according to the rules I learned at an early age and you did not.  Perhaps you are finally seeing things more my way.

   A memorable experience for me in the early days of the previous board was that atheists tried to establish the "fact" that homosexuality is not a choice using a dictionary definition of "orientation."  I knew right away that was wrong, but there was no way to make you understand.  You really need to get away from the internet.  Find a hobby that doesn't display your vast ignorance for all the world to see.

    I realize you won't get the significance of it, but I follow a school of thought, you do not.

   None of those schools of thought holds that dictionaries contain anything but labels.  None of them misreads statistical data the way you do.  Your aptitude for geometry, algebra and higher math is inadequate to carry you through any problem solving whatsoever as you are incapable of thinking clearly.  Your "school" of thought is jumping to conclusions that fit what you believe is authority and no more.  You will get it right one day.  One day the authorities will present it to you.  Today is not that day.