(December 18, 2017 at 12:47 pm)SteveII Wrote:What message would that be? Atheists do not have a message by definition.(December 18, 2017 at 5:26 am)Bow Before Zeus Wrote: It is true that religion provides things like comfort and many won't give up religion because of that comfort. But less and less young people are religious mostly because of the proliferation of education. The more knowledgeable one is, the less likely one needs a crutch like religion. Many of the young well educated realise that science contradicts much of what religions teach so they are less inclined to get involved. Yesterday I saw some footage on the news of a church and the vast majority of the poeple in the church were OLD. They had grey hair and looked like they did not have much longer to live. Once that generation is gone, religion will further weaken.
There are more and more religious people in the world every hour that passes. You are not getting your message out--you can't even keep up with the population growth!
(December 18, 2017 at 1:02 am)Bow Before Zeus Wrote: Everything in the bible starts as being literal. It was written that way. As science closes the gaps of knowledge, the god of the gaps gets smaller and smaller and "theologians" have to continually "reinterpret" their texts to still be relevant. So, only the core of "real xtians" will still interpret the bible literally as its writers intended.
George Orwell has shown that anything can be relabeled and reinterpreted. So war becomes peace and love becomes hate. After all, Ronald Ray-gun did name a nuclear weapon, the most destructive war of mass destruction the "Peacemaker"!!! So you can call Adam and Eve "Bill and Bob the flowerpot men" but your contortions will not get you out of the fact that xtianity has been proven to be a mythology.
You're really ignorant of that which you rail against. Augustine in the fourth century did not believe in a literal 6-day creation. Creationism is a relatively new side issue for Christians. So, how does that fit into your premise? You have constructed a straw man and are beating it up. Congrats on that achievement.
The religious are a dying breed.
Why would anyone care whatever Augustine claimed, he was a primitive crank.
