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  1. They said

    “Your claim is false, and saying it promotes hate.”

    Nate said

    “Because telling the truth with good manners isn't hate. It's respect.”

    His full answer

    Disagreeing with you isn't hate, and calling it hate isn't a rebuttal. Hate wishes harm on someone. I wish harm on nobody. Genesis one twenty-seven says God made us in his image, male and female. So every person has equal worth, and the two sexes are real. Both at once. You'll say my view wounds people already struggling. Cruelty wounds, and I'll stand against it. But kindness built on something untrue protects no one, and women's sports, shelters and medicine depend on a clear category. Help me out here. Which sentence I said was false? Name it and source it. Because telling the truth with good manners isn't hate. It's respect.

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  2. They said

    “God does not exist.”

    Nate said

    “Nothing doesn't build a universe and then write its rulebook.”

    His full answer

    God is real, and the universe itself is the first witness. Walk with me for a second. The universe had a beginning, which is what Georges Lemaître argued back in nineteen thirty-one, and whatever begins to exist needs a cause outside itself. Nature runs on laws written in mathematics, and Isaac Newton concluded that kind of order came from an intelligent and powerful being. Now you'll say science disproved all that. It didn't. Science measures nature and has no instrument that can rule out a cause beyond nature, which is why about a third of the scientists Pew surveyed in two thousand nine said they believe in God. So ask yourself where the universe came from, and why it makes sense at all. Nothing doesn't build a universe and then write its rulebook.

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