RE: The decline of evangelical Christians.
January 17, 2019 at 11:20 am
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2019 at 11:24 am by Brian37.)
(January 17, 2019 at 11:07 am)Acrobat Wrote:(January 17, 2019 at 10:27 am)Brian37 Wrote: Damn you are ignorant of history. Even today if you go to Ireland, they literally have walled off communities between Catholics and Protestants. For you to claim that the different sects of Christianity get along is nonsense.
The Ireland question aside, by in large, in today worlds, christians have gotten along just fine with other christian sects.
Clearly you recognize that in America we get along just fine?
Now there's close to 2 billions christian in the world, what percentage would you say of these christian seem to be able to get along with other christians of different denominations?
The entire population of Ireland is about 5million, so that barely even makes a dent.
Where?
Less violent today, does not mean were never violent, nor does it mean they cant get violent in the future.
No, sorry, even today, even though the different sects of Christianity are more civil today, does not mean Christianity is the cause of that civility. Again, religion in the west became less violent in spite of religion, not because of it.
Even today even in America we see plenty of right wing Christian hate groups who have committed crimes against other liberal Christians. Even today you will not get a White Evangelical Trump voting Baptist to agree with a black Baptist who voted for Obama.
This isn't just about Christianity. Even in Asia, you wont get a Tibet Buddhist sect to agree with a Chinese Buddhist sect with a Japanese Shinto Buddhist sect.
The reason the west became more civil, is not because of religion, but because of concepts of checks on power.
And again, I am being very fair. Not even the word "atheist" denotes nationality, ethnic, race. "Atheist" doesn't even denote political or economic view. The world would still have divisions and conflicts, even if all 7 billion of us were atheists.
The point is all 7 billion of us are one thing, humans, the same species. Our borders and social norms we are used to, are of locality, but that does not change nor will ever change that we are the same species.
