If billions of followers doesn’t make something popular, then nothing does. One of the beauties of Christianity is the a la carte menu and they all get to pick what they want to believe and still call themselves Christian. Christianity is both popular and ridiculous.

How It’s Made

Your first sentence is self contradictory.

That makes sense. But I can see how people misunderstood.

My kids didnt need religion to grow into good people. I would feel bad if I thought then not to use reason. I would have done them a disservice to raise them to believe in fairy tales.

I never imagined I knew your world view. I was answering about why there’s so many down votes. Using the phrase, “the word” like there’s some special power to it is an off-putting marker for a lot of people. I did assume, like most, that when you said “the word” you were talking about Christianity. And specifically the New Testament.

I think the downvotes stem from his opening line that he has some special knowledge of “the word”. It implies out of the box that those who see the world differently than him just have a flaw in that they didn’t know “the word”. Nothing about his question needed the preamble that implied any other views than his are defective for lack of knowledge of “the word”. -edit for typo.

He is still at liberty and running for office. Those fines are being paid by his dipshit supporters and those looking to buy influence. Trump is the prime example of someone getting away with stuff.