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The problem is, of course, that many men in the Manosphere are acting in a way that mirrors feminism.

So what they don't like about feminism is because it holds men in contempt.

But what the Manosphere is doing is it's holding women in contempt.

But if we take Christian nationalism as the idea that we need to build our political platform and our nation along strictly Christian principles, then I would say

that certainly has its severe limitations. You cannot legislate belief upon a people.

Atheism is technically and literally speaking a hopeless faith, because atheism is, of course,

a faith that's a belief system, because atheism is, of course, a faith, it's a belief system,

because it gives people no ultimate hope. They may have hope in this world, but they've no

ultimate hope. Karlstadt had the spirit of a revolutionary, and the spirit of a revolutionary

is always hatred of what has come before before and a determination to tear it down.

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