RE: Is the internet destroying religion?
August 14, 2014 at 9:03 pm
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2014 at 9:06 pm by Polaris.)
(August 14, 2014 at 8:58 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(August 14, 2014 at 8:25 pm)Polaris Wrote: As a theist, the internet is a huge blessing. Since many atheists (well the ones I have met online which is a rather small yet vocal subset of atheists; the ones offline I have met in person have been quite intelligent) focus on the websites with little academic validity...if that is all a nonbeliever is exposed to, it makes the job of converting them to a particular faith much easier. If theists can beat you at your own game, then you have nothing.
Atheist forums is definitely far from an academic website and most of the Theists on here consistently look like idiots. Only smug self possessed theists think that you are beating us at anything. Plus one look at de-conversion statistics (http://www.pewforum.org/2012/10/09/nones-on-the-rise/) shows that the number of Atheists, Agnostics and those identifying as no religion have gone through a huge increase almost directly starting with the internet age. So yeah, the internet does not help your cause.
I'm beating you and I'm using your own bullshit against you to do so.
(August 14, 2014 at 9:03 pm)czúzyt ylgájla Wrote: The Internet helped understand more about islam (from the Muslim side), look at what happened.
Yes, the Moslem use of the internet has vastly surpassed anything the atheists have been able to muster. If it wasn't for creating extremists to serve organizations like the Islamic State, then it wouldn't be so bad (speaking from someone who doesn't have much affinity for people converting to Islam).
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.