(October 10, 2012 at 7:48 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: ...
is this only a recent trend?
No, it's not a recent trend. It only seems that way because now fundamentalists are facing the threat of being made irrelevant so they're on the defense and creating a "controversy." Groups are the most vocal about their beliefs when they're on the verge of being at risk for extinction.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).