(June 11, 2015 at 4:19 pm)SteveII Wrote: In spite of all the statistics and breakdowns of demographics, every day when you wake up there are more Christians in the USA and the world.
In spite of? No, no, no, Stevie, you can't drop some statistics to demonstrate some tenuous conclusion when a proper evaluation of those statistics is shoved back in your face. An actual evaluation shows that Christianity is only thriving in poor, uneducated areas while the trend in the first world is towards non-religion. If you want to tout these unfavorable statistics in support of Christianity, more power to you, but don't just try to hand-wave away the fact that the statistics don't say what you want them to.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
