(June 8, 2016 at 3:22 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: As for evangelization, I very much believe in St Francis' approach: "preach the gospel always, when necessary use words."
We are called to be a good example of Christian love, and in doing so, we draw others to Christ, or in other words, the Christian way of living - which is to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, etc etc. I must admit I fail miserably many times, especially recently with how grumpy and depressed I've been.
To me, this forum is not any more or any less a place to "evangelize" as any other. It is not the reason I am here.
You've been here for what how many years?
While we certainly do not mind long term theists, unlike theists, I will not lie about my intent here. I am trying to save you from a needless superstition and free you from that old book of myth. I don't think you need that old tribal book, I simply think you like the idea of it being true.
I go after every religion including those of India and Asia. I simply see humanity stuck in superfluous clubs that have no reflection of modern knowledge and I see the potential in human progress every time science and skepticism takes what was once believed to be super natural only to end up being explained naturally.
If our species never questioned social norms our species never would have left the caves. Once you accept our species as being older than any written religion or boarders, and once you accept the age of the planet as being far older at 4 billion years, and once you accept the age of the universe as being 13.8 billion years old, the unscientific claims of antiquity seem childish and narcissistic. It was understandable back then when humans invented those things but we have progressed since then.
