RE: Are the churches using atheists to gain more converts?
June 20, 2016 at 1:39 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2016 at 1:40 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(June 20, 2016 at 1:28 pm)madog Wrote: I haven't argued against that, but you used Ireland as an example of a non secular state .... I just pointed that out .... I made no argument that that had any influence other than it wasn't a good example ....
How is it not a good example? A place where one religion - Catholicism - was able to prevent people from getting a divorce - as late as 1995? Ireland, until very recently, was a perfect example of a de facto theocracy. And it still is far less secular, than USA.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw