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I was raised going to church. always thought Bible study was boring and went over the same tropes. and Jesus was god because he did all these miracles like multiplying fish, turning water into wine, and rising people from the Dead. but as I have learned about other mythos, I've realized there were already gods that did exactly what Jesus was said to have done. in fact there were early church writings on this issue that were destroyed by the medieval church, because it raised too many questions and it'd be better to just forget about all the other gods. what it seems like is that Jews created a new god that combined all the powers of the other gods into one

Ben Franklin once wrote "those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

But he was referring to the gov of the colony of Pennsylvania accepting money from the British Penns to not raise taxes on the Penny family colonial holdings in order to raise money to defend its borders during the French & Indian (Seven Years) War.

But can you really say you're free if you're in danger from crime, for example? If kids have to go to school in de facto prisons with armed guards, bullet proof glass, etc, churches need armed guards, some people saying they only feel safe if they're armed in public, etc are we really free?

Isn't freedom from such fear we need to be armed everywhere and turning schools into fortresses and churches protected by guns true freedom?