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RE: Can't Wait For The Day This Is True In The U.S.
September 5, 2017 at 7:02 pm
(September 5, 2017 at 2:57 pm)Godscreated Wrote: (September 4, 2017 at 7:04 pm)Industrial Lad Wrote: I think the whole thing about that in the end times was mostly written to scare people. If they're not afraid enough of hell get them to fear that too.
Or maybe they really did see a future where people would stop believing the bullshit. Not through divine inspiration but through reason.
They probably knew of other religions on the decline.
It' wasn't written to scare people, it was written to warn people that time was growing to a close. Hell doesn't bother Christians, we want be there. Divine inspiration has nothing to do with people not believing, it has everything to do with people who think they know more than Christians about everything, people are reasoning themselves right into hell. This is also taught in then NT, you should read it some time, preferably before it's to late. Industrial Lad Wrote:If some proof were provided that god exists and that the bible is accurate, also that hell exists, I'd be much more receptive.
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RE: Can't Wait For The Day This Is True In The U.S.
September 5, 2017 at 7:40 pm
(September 5, 2017 at 7:02 pm)Industrial Lad Wrote: (September 5, 2017 at 2:57 pm)Godscreated Wrote: It' wasn't written to scare people, it was written to warn people that time was growing to a close. Hell doesn't bother Christians, we want be there. Divine inspiration has nothing to do with people not believing, it has everything to do with people who think they know more than Christians about everything, people are reasoning themselves right into hell. This is also taught in then NT, you should read it some time, preferably before it's to late. Industrial Lad Wrote:If some proof were provided that god exists and that the bible is accurate, also that hell exists, I'd be much more receptive.
Baneemy says it's so. Is that not sufficient ??
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RE: Can't Wait For The Day This Is True In The U.S.
September 5, 2017 at 7:42 pm
(September 5, 2017 at 7:40 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Baneemy says it's so. Is that not sufficient ??
Lol who?
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RE: Can't Wait For The Day This Is True In The U.S.
September 5, 2017 at 7:43 pm
Baneemy. You know, the guy. With the... thing.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Can't Wait For The Day This Is True In The U.S.
September 5, 2017 at 7:48 pm
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Baneemy is the featured deity of The Congregation of Jehovah's Presbytery of Zion. The ONE True Church !!!
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RE: Can't Wait For The Day This Is True In The U.S.
September 5, 2017 at 8:11 pm
Monty Python?
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RE: Can't Wait For The Day This Is True In The U.S.
September 5, 2017 at 8:50 pm
(September 4, 2017 at 5:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41150792
Quote:More than half in UK are non-religious, suggests survey
Quote:Last year 53% of people described themselves as having "no religion", in a survey of 2,942 adults by the National Centre for Social Research.
Among those aged between 18 and 25, the proportion was higher at 71%.
And since the young are saying "fuck it" and only the old fucks believe in the holy horseshit, things are looking real good in Britain!
Congratulations.
This is why even being a hippy-dippy fair-weather faithful fuck is inexcusable. Every dried leaf adds to the forest fire. Too many of that in the States thinking they're not doing any harm. A-holes.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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RE: Can't Wait For The Day This Is True In The U.S.
September 5, 2017 at 9:11 pm
Time is solving the problem.
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RE: Can't Wait For The Day This Is True In The U.S.
September 5, 2017 at 9:20 pm
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(September 5, 2017 at 1:46 pm)alpha male Wrote: (September 4, 2017 at 7:16 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: In a way, you are correct. It's a sign of the end times for Christianity.
Probably - but the eventual victor will be Islam, not atheism.
So much for your omnipotent and loving god, then.
Changes in thinking are almost always generational. Polling seems to indicate that religion has less a grip on our youth.
Religion will always be a human thing, I think. But its relevancy wanes as the tides of reason surge. And they are surging. They have been for centuries. Help today's youth understand their own power and promise, support them in education and exploration, tolerate their questions -- all of their questions -- and strive to provide answers which appeal to their innate reasoning abilities.
Keep the waves coming in. Faith is a sandcastle, not a fortress.
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RE: Can't Wait For The Day This Is True In The U.S.
September 6, 2017 at 6:27 am
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(September 5, 2017 at 9:20 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: So much for your omnipotent and loving god, then.
Not sure what either of those have to do with the situation. He did predict the decline of Christianity. It's not unexpected to me.
From the link above:
Quote:In projecting the relative decline of the unaffiliated we also factored in religious switching, or conversion, for the 70 countries with reliable switching data. Religious switching has been powering the rise of the “nones” in the United States and Europe, and a net gain globally of nearly 70 million people are projected to join the ranks of the unaffiliated through religious switching between 2015 and 2060. But at the global level, gains made through religious switching are overshadowed by the impact of fertility and mortality.
Some social theorists have suggested that as countries develop economically, more of their residents will move away from religious affiliation, as has been seen in Europe. But there is little evidence of such a phenomenon in Muslim-majority countries. Moreover, in Hindu-majority India, religious affiliation is still nearly universal despite rapid economic and social change.
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