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GOP Oversight Member Suggests Smithsonian Hiding Bones of Giants (meidasnews.com)
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In June, Rep. Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican serving on the House Oversight Committee, appeared on BlazeTV’s Prime Time with Alex Stein, where he discussed his belief that giants once existed. Burlison told Stein he was scheduled to be at “NephCon 2025,” a conference focused on fringe topics including the biblical Nephilim —figures in Genesis that some interpret as the giant offspring of angels and human women.

He credited Timothy Alberino’s podcast with sending him “far down the rabbit hole,” eventually reaching claims that the Smithsonian Institution is hiding evidence, the bones of past giants that lived on the Earth. Burlison suggested that, as a member of the Oversight Committee, he could investigate the Smithsonian.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Okay, but the thing is, if there's evidence of a God what good would it do to pretend it doesn't exist? It's not that Atheists don't want there to be a God, but there's just this overwhelming proof..... It's that they sincerely don't think there's one.

I know I'd be a lot happier if an all-knowing all-powerful all-loving God existed, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    To these people, God clearly exists.

    It's so evident, I mean, just look around! How could you possibly not believe...? Unless... Unless you hate Him and just wanna sin and rebel against him like the Devil! That's it! You're working for the Devil and/or you're possessed and/or you hate God! So you cover it up so people won't believe in Him, and you're confusing their minds so they die without salvation and go to hell!

    It's an insane rationalization to make sense of how and why anybody would ever not believe what is so clearly plain as day to them. To entertain the notion that there is legitimacy to non-belief or even disbelief means entertaining the possibility that their dearly held beliefs are incorrect.

    So they must concoct an answer that leads to willful disbelief, and reject all claims of non-belief, save for those who haven't heard of Christ at all. And, because they're paranoid, the reason cannot be innocent, they must assume malice to feed their delusion and their persecution complex.

    -source growing up on the fringes of this insanity

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    It does make sense considering every pastor in the South is somehow utterly convinced that those not in his congregation haven't heard the good news.

    One time a Jehova's Witness tried to convert me by slowly explaining the concept of God like it was this completely alien concept.

    I do not want to be an atheist, I wish God was as self evident as these people claim. Eternal life in Paradise, knowing my deceased loved ones are just waiting to show me around the greatest resort in the omniverse because my own ticket is just a heart beat away.

    However physicialism as depressing and unsatisfying as it is seems to be the way things work whether I like it or not. And believe you me. I don't like it.

    I truly wish the Christians were right and behind the scenes is an all powerful being who genuinely loves me and wants to forgive me of all I've done wrong.

    But if he's out there I cannot find him.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I get it. It's an understandable desire, that there's somehow more to this and a point to our suffering. Be careful with the Witnesses though. If you're grieving lost loved ones, they'll pick up on it and try to leverage that to swindle you in. I truly believe most religious people mean well, but the Watch Tower Society (the people behind the JW's) are incredibly predatory and outright teach their followers to leverage people's grief if they pick up on it.

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