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- A significant proportion of migrants are unemployed
- Absence of proof is not proof of absence
- Abstract objects can be conceptually demonstrated
- According to biblical accounts, God is jealous and can get angry.
- According to religious texts, God is the creator of all things.
- According to the Bible, man alone possesses free will, and with it the ability to do evil.
- Africa's demographic explosion is impeding its economic development, not Europe's.
- Air Quotas incentivise airlines to reduce their CO2 emissions
- Air Quotas restrict freedom to travel
- Air Quotas restrict the freedom to travel
- All human rights NGOs point to the existence of a racist double standard, so it's hard to deny in good faith
- All left-wing parties are relatively pro-immigration
- All religions teach the goodness of God
- Alleged mystical experiences are fabricated stories
- Alleged mystical experiences are made-up stories
- An annually falling jet fuel cap, applied with free market plus equity regulations, would directly limit emissions
- An argument from authority is not proof
- An election campaign followed by an election are combined with a draw.
- An exceptional meteorological phenomenon
- Animals undergo suffering other than devouring without human intervention.
- Anti-racist activists are also anti-capitalists
- Apart from very rare (and short-lived) exceptions, all societies have a spiritual dimension.
- Argument from authority
- Arguments for the existence of God are all argumentative biases
- As long as we're not personally affected, we're not going to change anything.
- As they develop, human beings undergo transcendent experiences
- At times, nationalism has been left-wing
- Atheism doesn't account for first cause
- Atheism is based on an outdated reductionist vision of the universe and science.
- Atheists have never claimed that the laws of physics are self-forming or that energy needs no incidental cause.
- Atonement for a sin has always been the motive for massacring the innocent
B
- Because God is a simple Being, he needs no explanation.
- Being a scientist doesn't make you immune to obscurantism
- Belief in God can be a rational gamble
- Bets on God's existence are based on arbitrary assumptions
- Biblical miracles have a rational explanation
- Billionaire-funded media are relatively pro-immigration
C
- Cases described as demonic possessions are now seen as simple mental disorders.
- Chance alone cannot explain the creation, adaptation and complexity of species
- Chance is a complex set of causes, so it's not improbable.
- Claims of divine intervention are based on unreliable evidence
- Clergy live in luxury
- Climate refugees are caused by industrial development in Europe and the USA
- Concepts of right and wrong vary from one religion to another, and even from one sub-branch to another.
- Consciousness doesn't exist
- Consciousness is an emerging property of the brain
- Consciousness is not clearly defined
- Consciousness is the reflection of an impersonal Absolute
- Considering paranormal phenomena as real does not prove the existence of God
- Contemplating nature
- Contemplating sacred art
- Content demonizing anti-immigrants is increasingly marginalized
- Creationists denied the existence of dinosaurs for a long time, then turned around when they became fashionable.
D
- Dating methods are far more reliable than a mythological story written by men and distorted by successive translations and rewritings.
- Decolonization took place more than 50 years ago, and the former colonizing countries are not responsible for what is happening in the countries of the South.
- Defenders of far-right ideology include former right-wing parties, which are inherently pro-bourgeois.
- Defining right and wrong are the pillars of religious belief
- Democracy is only possible within a national framework
- Denial of chance is a cognitive bias
- Denying that God has a cause is an arbitrary assumption
- Different religions have different dogmas
- Different religions have different rituals
- Different religions worship different gods
- Divine experiences are merely mental projections
- Divine omnipotence is the power of love
E
- Ecosia is an alternative to Google
- Employers and urban bourgeoisie want immigration
- Enables greater public participation in political life.
- Ensures that traffic cap targets are met
- Europe is not responsible for religious or ethnic conflicts in Africa or the Middle East
- Europe's megacities are overpopulated, lacking housing and services, and it's madness to bring in migrants.
- Europe's population is aging and will decline without significant migration
- Even a "normal" brain becomes "delusional" when subjected to stress of the kind that causes IMEs.
- Even if the phenomenon has a divine origin, the deities to whom these transcendences are attributed vary.
- Even if the testimonies have not been rigorously collected, they are sufficient to establish that an extraordinary phenomenon has occurred.
- Every religion believes all others are wrong
- Evil can lead to the worst horrors
- Evil is due to a cosmic accident unforeseen by God
- Evolution produces morality because it obeys divine will
- Explanation by chance is even more inexplicable than explanation by God
- Extraordinary claims require more than ordinary proof
F
- Faced with the world, we can also be subjectively certain that God doesn't exist, that everything is absurd...
- Faith is just a cognitive mechanism
- Faith is only a vindication of our own cognitive biases
- Faith only serves to disguise a lack of evidence
- Fatima is a legend, nothing happened
- Fdesouche does cherry picking
- Fdesouche is far from being the only source of information for the ultra-right.
- Fear of God's judgment is the cornerstone of Christian morality
- Fear of losing one's culture is a breeding ground for racism
- Femonationalists claim to defend women, but spit on all measures to combat sexism
- France has a lot of rural areas that are empty or too old, and we need to repopulate them.
- France has gone from 50 to 67 million inhabitants in just a few decades, so there's no "demographic problem".
- France has welcomed a few thousand Ukrainians and hundreds of thousands of Africans, so it can't be accused of racism.
- Free will is an illusory sensation
- Fulfilled" prophecies are merely reinterpretations of prophecies in the light of current events.
- Fulfilled" prophecies only reflect our cognitive biases
G
- Giving migrants access to European social benefits is a form of redistribution on a global scale.
- Global warming will lead to major migrations
- God can be found in all civilizations, in different places and at different times.
- God can't do everything
- God created eternal hell
- God doesn't give people the freedom not to believe, since he punishes unbelievers.
- God doesn't know the future
- God is a contradictory concept
- God is a simple being
- God is a tool to muzzle our cognitive dissonance
- God is an invention
- God is beyond our understanding
- God is in man's image because man is in God's image
- God is incomprehensible
- God is not an abstract object, for he is the cause of events in the world.
- God is supposed to be omnipotent
- God is supposed to be omnipotent, therefore able to communicate messages without using evil
- God is supposed to be omniscient
- God is used to deny the evolution of species, so he can't be the cause.
- God limits his own omnipotence to allow the universe to exist
- God may very well be anthropomorphic, even if this is hardly credible.
- God needed this immensity of means to develop man and intelligence.
- God needs conflict to advance his plan in history
- God wanted man
- God's alleged incomprehensibility is just a way of dealing with the incoherence of religious explanations.
- God's answers to prayer
- God's existence can be ascertained through mystical experience
- God's existence is revealed in sacred texts
- God's so-called representatives on earth don't always lead by example
- God's visions
- Good triumphs in the end
H
- Hans Jonas' quote on God's incomprehensible goodness
- He seizes full power
- High immigration will always drive the electorate into the arms of populism
- Homonationalists have no problem with the homophobia of non-Muslims
- Human beings aspire to infinite love
- Human existence is no match for God
- Human freedom" as we observe it can perfectly well be seen as the result of biological and social forces alone.
- Human language emerges from animal communication
- Human language is a product of Darwinian evolution
- Human life is absurd
- Human nature aspires to God
- Human progress consists in abolishing borders and differences
- Hypnosis
I
- If all religions said the same thing, there would be no point in having multiple religions.
- If God can't do everything, then it's not God
- If God cannot be proven, he is an irrational object
- If order were a projection of the human mind, scientific prediction would be impossible.
- If Providence existed, it would prevent many unjust events.
- If religions had a common content, there would never have been any religious wars.
- If taxes are too high, only the rich can fly
- If the world were chaotic, there would be no language to talk about it.
- If we don't boost the birth rate, we'll have to bring in millions of migrants.
- IMEs are like dreams
- Immigrants are used as scapegoats for frustrations that have nothing to do with them.
- Immigration drains Africa of its lifeblood and talent
- Immigration issues are big sellers, so it's in the media's interest to propagate them as much as possible.
- Immigration promotes multiculturalism, which is a plus for a society and human progress.
- Immigration strengthens the proletariat and left-wing forces
- Imperialist powers provoke wars in poor countries
- Impossible, that presupposes a god in two times: that of creation and that of profit, but god is not in time.
- In 1952, Greece joined NATO despite a domestic ban on its Communist Party.
- In felines, coitus is torture for the female
- In some species, biting without necessarily killing is a means of dominance.
- In the 1980s, the PCF was against immigration
- In theocratic regimes, the elites are corrupt.
- Inedias (saints who live without eating) prove the existence of God
- Instead of uniting against their exploiters, proletarians and the petty bourgeoisie tear each other apart over trivial issues like "the veil".
- Insufficient understanding of a phenomenon
- Inventing a new interpretation of an expression to maintain a semblance of coherence in an argument is a post-hoc argument.
- Islamophobia is the false nose of racism
- It is entirely possible to negotiate the return of refugees with the countries of emigration.
- It is insufficient & outdated for the climate emergency
- It is not within the scientific community.
- It just proves a universal need to believe in a higher entity, not its existence.
- It's a cheap New Age recovery to claim that contemporary science is tending towards spirituality.
- It's a collective hallucination
- It's a mental projection to make the pain more bearable.
- It's a question of political will (Australia, Japan).
- It's a UFO phenomenon
- It's all too easy to twist biblical accounts to cover up inconsistencies.
- It's because we give migrants hope that they can come, that there are so many deaths in the Mediterranean.
- It's easy to imagine a better world in some respects
- It's impossible to be on the left and reject others who are disadvantaged
- It's impossible to verify that our world is the best it can be
- It's more rational to admit our ignorance than to invent an explanation out of nowhere.
- It's the affluent urban "bobos" who demand (and exploit) immigrant or immigrant-born staff.
- It's the mark of nationalism to reject the foreigner
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- Laws depend on the will of the people and must be submitted to politics
- Levitations like those of St Joseph of Copertino prove the existence of God
- Listing only the points of convergence and ignoring the divergences is a fallacious argument.
- Love is only the product of chemical reactions in our brain