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before some smart atheist goes ahead and signs this as "a joke" with a friend and collects the $10, just spend a few hours on this youtube channel first https://www.youtube.com/c/FoolishFishBooks/videos and try, try to be agonist vs atheist just this one time.

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I believe in God and the immortality of the soul. But telling people to watch hours of some random YouTube channel is not going to convince anyone. Please, stop embarrassing yourself (and those of us who happen to share some of your beliefs) with incompetent apologetics

I clicked through, skimmed a video, and I am missing your point. What is your takeaway from this channel / hopeful takeaway for me?

i said hours. You really have to watch a lot of content before your logical brain will let you believe, wait, omg, maybe i don't want to really sell my soul.

> You really have to watch a lot of content before your logical brain will let you believe

Textbook indoctrination

And if you don’t yet believe, just watch a little more.

> maybe i don't want to really sell my soul.

Don't worry, I can sell you a replacement. I have plenty in stock, I swear! So feel free to take one extra, just in case yours goes bad or something.

Btw.: I can also sell you karma if you need some. That would be $10/Gy

Is it ok if I sold my soul 20 years ago to fraudulently sell my soul some more?

Not according this this contract (SECTION IV.B).

However, this contract does AFAIK leave open the possibility that you have more than one soul; in that case, you could sell your other souls. Just not the one you already sold. I think.

> You really have to watch a lot of content before your logical brain will let you believe...

I can't tell if this is a joke/troll or you're suggesting that religious belief requires brain-washing.

Some/many religious people are remarkably honest about how little sense it all makes, they just don't say it that way. The usual way this comes up is in terms of how important "faith" is to the whole thing, which is another way of saying you need to turn off the reasoning parts and just believe.

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