RE: Churches losing membership four times faster than they are gaining it
March 24, 2015 at 3:29 pm
(March 24, 2015 at 3:15 pm)robvalue Wrote: It makes me laugh how the afterlife, the foundation of the carrot and stick keeping the whole thing going, is something barely anyone can agree on. It goes as far as some people saying there is no hell or you just get destroyed, to those who believe in unlimited suffering. That's about as big a difference as you could get.
Scientific knowledge converges, religious nonsense diverges.
And it's not just the afterlife.
How does god judge? Is believing in it more important than good works? Less? Is there a special pass for those that never heard of the Christian god?
What is the exact nature of god? Is it one entity? A pantheon of three? Some weird combination?
Shit, there's debate about whether or not Jesus' arrival essentially eradicated the OT, or if his decrees/behavior were presented as a separate, exceptional (meaning, an exception to) path from the OT, or other possibilities.
If the religion was clear, there wouldn't be 40,000 sects in Christianity alone, with disagreements found within each.
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