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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 5:07 pm
(January 16, 2015 at 4:54 pm)dyresand Wrote: (January 16, 2015 at 2:32 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: What about the following:
90 Minutes in Heaven - Don Piper
Heaven is for Real - Todd Burpo
23 Minutes in Hell - Bill Wiese
I Went to Hell - Kenneth Hagen
To Heaven and Back - Mary Neal
My Time in Heaven - Sigmund Richard
My Journey to Heaven - Marvin J. Besteman
Waking up in Heaven - Crystal McVea
Are these taken seriously by the "Christian community"? Do you dismiss them also?
If you do or do not dismiss them, what is the criteria you are using?
All of them were hoaxes to make money.
The Christian needs to take all those titles and ask themselves if they would buy the same argument if the writers were arguing for Allah?
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 5:16 pm
The lesson to be learned from all of this is that Christianity is a cash cow.
If I had the morals they tell me I do, I would be bigger than Joel Osteen.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 5:21 pm
(January 16, 2015 at 5:16 pm)Faith No More Wrote: The lesson to be learned from all of this is that Christianity is a cash cow.
If I had the morals they tell me I do, I would be bigger than Joel Osteen.
A pyramid scheme based on fear, and founded on fiction. Money goes up, nothing of tangible, intrinsic value comes down...
You, not a mythical god, are the author of your book of life, make it one worth reading..and living.
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 5:26 pm
(January 16, 2015 at 5:16 pm)Faith No More Wrote: The lesson to be learned from all of this is that Christianity is a cash cow.
If I had the morals they tell me I do, I would be bigger than Joel Osteen.
I wish I was a *true Atheist*. I'd cash in on the gullibility.
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 5:31 pm
Shocking.
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 5:50 pm
(January 16, 2015 at 5:21 pm)goodwithoutgod Wrote: (January 16, 2015 at 5:16 pm)Faith No More Wrote: The lesson to be learned from all of this is that Christianity is a cash cow.
If I had the morals they tell me I do, I would be bigger than Joel Osteen.
A pyramid scheme based on fear, and founded on fiction. Money goes up, nothing of tangible, intrinsic value comes down...
Even the idea of religious charity has the opposite affect they claim it should. If churches cared about the poor, they would put pressure on government to invest and pressure on businesses to pay well. Charity is good, but it should be a last resort.
Same with business charity, it is also PR. All that money they get in tax breaks and tax write offs for donating, if they put it into better pay and benefits they would get that less dependency they say they want.
The way charity works now keeps people desperate, good PR for churches and businesses but lousy for workers.
Hitchens wrote a book about Mother Teresa, very scathing indictment.
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 5:57 pm
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The Missionary Position 
As nauseating as it is, a great read.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 6:06 pm
You know what you call it when you send a preacher to Africa to sell homophobia? Mission Creep.
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 6:14 pm
(January 16, 2015 at 5:16 pm)Faith No More Wrote: The lesson to be learned from all of this is that Christianity is a cash cow.
If I had the morals they tell me I do, I would be bigger than Joel Osteen.
gods yes! I have thought so many times "I wish I was a heartless scumbag, I could get get rich soooo easy!"
I already know all the right buttons to push, having been a gullible evangelical myself for so may years.
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RE: "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" admits he was lying.
January 16, 2015 at 6:20 pm
(January 16, 2015 at 6:14 pm)Davka Wrote: I already know all the right buttons to push, having been a gullible evangelical myself for so may years.
Try to preach evangelical in Europe. You'd be surprised how few people would give a shit.
That particular poison only seems to work in America and Africa.
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