Religion continues to sink

[vorlon13]

It's all the backsliding and cherry picking scriptures.

Somebody needs to crack the whip and make them do it right.

[Divinity]

I'm sure Christians will eventually be like "Homosexuality isn't actually against the bible. God spoke out against it at the time because he needed to populate the world. It's like how he forbids eating shrimp!" or some other bullshit that justifies them keeping their text, though at least then the text will be a little less harmful.

[Crossless2.0]

It's all the backsliding and cherry picking scriptures.

Somebody needs to crack the whip and make them do it right.

As much as we Americans pay lip service to the fucking Pilgrims every November, perhaps that's what we really need in this country: a widespread return to those colonial "Christian" roots professional Christian panderers like David Barton enjoy lionizing.  I'd give the experiment about two months in contemporary America before the Christians found their numbers down to around 25% of the population.

[vorlon13]

LOL, we are watching the birth of some more cherry picked scripture !!

If the church poobahs realize an article of faith is impacting the bottom line, then they will see the expediency of realigning dogma with current conditions.

Of course, I will then rail savagely against them for turning even further away from God with their liberal backsliding.


They can't win, they just can't win.

[Full Circle]

It's all the backsliding and cherry picking scriptures.

Somebody needs to crack the whip and make them do it right.

As much as we Americans pay lip service to the fucking Pilgrims every November, perhaps that's what we really need in this country: a widespread return to those colonial "Christian" roots professional Christian panderers like David Barton enjoy lionizing.  I'd give the experiment about two months in contemporary America before the Christians found their numbers down to around 25% of the population.

Here is a TED talk by the author AJ Jacobs on “My Year of Living Biblically”, very entertaining.

https://www.ted.com/talks/a_j_jacobs_yea...anguage=en

[jenny1972]

i think westboro baptist church ( which is only doing exactly what the bible says ) and other fundamentalists who are making the news like kim davis and karen miller who thinks God is going to destroy America because of gay marriage is causing people to really question how sane religion is . either religion needs to change or people are going to abandon it but if it changes that will show how unsubstantial religion actually is if it just changes with the times and according to popular opinion (as it always does) so people will see it as rediculous either way it goes liberal or fundamentalist .

[Simon Moon]

i think westboro baptist church ( which is only doing exactly what the bible says ) and other fundamentalists who are making the news like kim davis and karen miller who thinks God is going to destroy America because of gay marriage is causing people to really question how sane religion is . either religion needs to change or people are going to abandon it but if it changes that will show how unsubstantial religion actually is if it just changes with the times and according to popular opinion (as it always does) so people will see it as rediculous either way it goes liberal or fundamentalist .

Every once in a while, you actually say something rational. 

Several sentences, and not a single logical fallacy.

[jenny1972]

i think westboro baptist church ( which is only doing exactly what the bible says ) and other fundamentalists who are making the news like kim davis and karen miller who thinks God is going to destroy America because of gay marriage is causing people to really question how sane religion is . either religion needs to change or people are going to abandon it but if it changes that will show how unsubstantial religion actually is if it just changes with the times and according to popular opinion (as it always does) so people will see it as rediculous either way it goes liberal or fundamentalist .

Every once in a while, you actually say something rational. 

Several sentences, and not a single logical fallacy.

  as if im not always rational

[Wyrd of Gawd]

I'm curious to see how long it's going to take until the U.S. reaches the same levels of religiosity that currently exist in many European countries. Hopefully it's not going to take decades.

But what about that influx of muslims into the European countries?  Don't you think all of Europe will be Islamic in a generation?

[robvalue]

I do worry about that. It seems that some Muslims who come over here live in self-contained communities in European countries, where they try and impose their own rules as far as they can get away with. This makes leaving the religion so much harder. (Of course, this is one of the reasons they do it.) The women I'm sure get no say in the matter.

Although it's not nearly as insular an environment as before the Internet, it's still an unhealthy shadow of it that will keep fundamentalist religion going on longer than it otherwise would.

If my observations are off, please correct me. I get the impression that law enforcement and people in general are rather reluctant to do anything about these communities, allowing them to become mini theocracies.

I do hope I'm wrong. Seriously.