When a person believes in a religion, they have trained their brains to ignore part of reality. Once you've trained your brain to do that, manipulative people can more easily abuse your brain into thinking other incorrect things.
And that's how you get MAGA
So the purpose is less about evangelizing atheism, and more about fixing other people's brains for the betterment of society.
Literally impossible. There is no way you could have done anything to move the needle on this country in any meaningful sense.
Your life in this country is insignificant. You're one of hundreds of millions. You have done nothing of note. And our current status as a world power has nothing to do with you.
So stop trying to take credit for something you were accidentally born into. Be happy that you have the privilege of living here. Lord knows you wouldn't be able to get here on your own as an immigrant.
Your very judgy for someone who has done nothing to make their own country great. Your only tie to greatness is that you were accidentally squeezed out of your mom's junk in a convenient country.
If you were born in Iran, you wouldn't have done any better than they did.
Slippery slope? It's literally been done. Voter roles purged too close to an election to be able to vote. The complaint here is that this database makes it too easy to do what they've already done a bunch of times.
You can be snarky, or you can be ignorant. It's a bad look to be both.
The Satanic Temple really is great. For those that haven't heard of them, check it out. Donate. Join. They use religious laws for the promotion of logic, reason, and empathy.
You understood what he meant. Ergo, he was correct.
Language is just a means of conveying your thoughts into someone else's head. Grammar is a set of guidelines to ease that process. So if you picked up what he was putting down, his sentence was valid.
Maybe. But the scientific method and logic are provably functional. You see a thing, you replicate the thing, you can then do more things.
So it's not a huge stretch to say that getting people to follow those methods is an improvement.