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RE: Damned Christians
October 11, 2019 at 11:14 am
Uganda (majority Christian country) announces ‘Kill the Gays’ law imposing death penalty on homosexuals
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...51411.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Damned Christians
October 14, 2019 at 12:16 am
Seems that this forum is having a devastating effect on Christianity
Quote:Attorney General Bill Barr: "This is not decay. This is organized destruction. Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and academia in an unremitting assault on religion & traditional values."
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/ag-...al-values/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Damned Christians
October 14, 2019 at 7:39 am
"U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Friday expressed his disdain for the spread of secularism in the U.S., blaming progressives and the decline of religion for a plethora of problems plaguing the nation, including drugs, violence, and mental illness during a speech at Notre Dame Law School."
Funny, a case can be made that religion caused those problems. Hyperfocused makes for more concise speech writing, of course.
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RE: Damned Christians
October 14, 2019 at 8:08 am
Pretty sure drugs, violence, and mental illness predated the US.
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October 14, 2019 at 8:16 am
(October 14, 2019 at 8:08 am)Chad32 Wrote: Pretty sure drugs, violence, and mental illness predated the US. Yep, but I was saying that religion contributed to those problems in the US. No dating implied.
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RE: Damned Christians
October 14, 2019 at 9:32 am
I'm sure it has.
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RE: Damned Christians
October 19, 2019 at 12:42 am
Quote:Christianity Collapsing In America
The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip. In Pew Research Center telephone surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019, 65% of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, down 12 percentage points over the past decade. Meanwhile, the religiously unaffiliated share of the population, consisting of people who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular,” now stands at 26%, up from 17% in 2009.
Both Protestantism and Catholicism are experiencing losses of population share. Currently, 43% of U.S. adults identify with Protestantism, down from 51% in 2009. And one-in-five adults (20%) are Catholic, down from 23% in 2009. Meanwhile, all subsets of the religiously unaffiliated population – a group also known as religious “nones” – have seen their numbers swell. Self-described atheists now account for 4% of U.S. adults, up modestly but significantly from 2% in 2009; agnostics make up 5% of U.S. adults, up from 3% a decade ago; and 17% of Americans now describe their religion as “nothing in particular,” up from 12% in 2009. Members of non-Christian religions also have grown modestly as a share of the adult population.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/...n-america/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Damned Christians
October 19, 2019 at 8:39 am
One of my cousins has fled her home with her three kids, taking refuge in an enclave in Utah. She had told people that the Southern Baptists have become "too liberal" and she wants her kids "raised right in the eyes of God." I predict an armed standoff will develop when dad comes for his kids.
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October 19, 2019 at 9:10 am
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If you think southern Baptists are too liberal, it's you. It's not them. This is what's scary about the extreme right. Most sane people would call a group extreme, that these people call too liberal.
I can only hope she doesn't shoot the kids too, if it comes down to armed confrontation.
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RE: Damned Christians
October 19, 2019 at 9:23 am
(October 19, 2019 at 9:10 am)Chad32 Wrote: If you think southern Baptists are too liberal, it's you. It's not them. This is what's scary about the extreme right. Most sane people would call a group extreme, that these people call too liberal.
I can only hope she doesn't shoot the kids too, if it comes down to armed confrontation. I've shot with the father a few times, he was MOS 0317 when he was on active duty. I'm pretty sure that if it comes to shooting she'd better be bunkered well and truly down.
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