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RE: Decline of religion
May 15, 2024 at 6:40 pm
(May 15, 2024 at 12:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (May 15, 2024 at 10:42 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: In Germany, an initiative was launched to declare church buildings a public asset.
Christian communities are less and less able to preserve church buildings, many of them have been put out of use or even removed. People don't need them anymore.
https://www.moderne-regional.de/kirchenmanifest/
I propose that all unused churches be repurposed as therapy centres for child victims of clerical sexual abuse.
Boru
There was an old Catholic church in Paso Robles, CA (where I lived for a few years) that got repurposed into a nice restaurant and great meat-market back in the 70s, before I moved there or was old enough to enjoy.
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RE: Decline of religion
May 16, 2024 at 11:17 am
What are we replacing churches with?
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RE: Decline of religion
May 16, 2024 at 11:21 am
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2024 at 11:22 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Self help retreats, yoga classes, herbal supplements, timeshares, and The Donald.....mostly. You guys are a new agey and aged bunch nowadays.
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RE: Decline of religion
May 16, 2024 at 7:56 pm
(May 16, 2024 at 11:17 am)h311inac311 Wrote: What are we replacing churches with?
Tattoos and piercings
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RE: Decline of religion
May 16, 2024 at 8:10 pm
(May 16, 2024 at 7:56 pm)h4ym4n Wrote: (May 16, 2024 at 11:17 am)h311inac311 Wrote: What are we replacing churches with?
Tattoos and piercings
Perfect...got lots of tattoos but don't really wear jewelry anymore.
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RE: Decline of religion
May 16, 2024 at 9:18 pm
(May 16, 2024 at 8:10 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (May 16, 2024 at 7:56 pm)h4ym4n Wrote: Tattoos and piercings
Perfect...got lots of tattoos but don't really wear jewelry anymore.
Ain’t true without pictures. 
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RE: Decline of religion
May 16, 2024 at 9:57 pm
(May 16, 2024 at 9:18 pm)h4ym4n Wrote: (May 16, 2024 at 8:10 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Perfect...got lots of tattoos but don't really wear jewelry anymore.
Ain’t true without pictures.
I don't have pics of them all...
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RE: Decline of religion
May 18, 2024 at 1:57 am
(May 16, 2024 at 11:17 am)h311inac311 Wrote: What are we replacing churches with?
"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."
Benjamin Franklin
In Nebraska, empty churches are becoming apartments, museums
After over a century of worship, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Benedict closed its doors in January 2020. Seven months later, the Johnsons bought it.
This house of worship turned home is one of a number of Nebraska churches that, amid rising costs and falling attendance, have found second lives filling gaps in their local communities. Churches are becoming apartments, community centers and places to preserve history and foster the arts.
In early February, the Lincoln City Council signed off on a proposal to turn the former Southminster Methodist Church into offices and apartments.
Cadre Architecture and Design is set to buy the church for $350,000 after New Visions United Methodist Church decided to merge into one building and sell their two remaining properties in Lincoln.
The United Methodist Church Great Plains Conference, which includes Nebraska and Kansas, has seen 81 churches close since 2014.
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https://flatwaterfreepress.org/in-nebras...s-museums/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Decline of religion
May 18, 2024 at 6:17 am
(May 16, 2024 at 11:17 am)h311inac311 Wrote: What are we replacing churches with?
Anything else.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: Decline of religion
May 22, 2024 at 1:46 pm
Majority of people in Scotland have no religion, census shows
A majority of people in Scotland say they do not follow any religion – the first time secular attitudes have overtaken religious identity.
Data from the latest Scottish census, carried out in 2022, shows 51% of the population reported they belonged to no religion – a sharp increase on the 36.7% in 2011.
The Church of Scotland, the once-dominant Presbyterian church, which is now holding its annual general assembly in Edinburgh, was the most heavily affected by the surge in secularism.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...nsus-shows
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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