America’s Changing Religious Landscape.

[Jehanne]

Old news to some, but it bears repeating:



More here:

http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/ameri...landscape/

[vorlon13]

I've noted a dramatic upswing in just the last year in the blatant rebellion against God's stated Word as recorded in Holy Scripture by the supposedly self-identifying believers themselves.

It's absolutely astonishing the depths of open apostasy in the religious.


Makes me almost question the need and utility of Atheist Forums as the religious folks themselves are rapidly disincorporating their very own document of Salvation.


Q: How many folks can an apostate lead to Jesus ?

A: None

[Minimalist]

They need a soft spot to land, V.  When their fantasies come crashing down it can be very disconcerting.  We who have already dismissed this horseshit have a duty to be there for them.  It's the "xtian" thing to do!

 

Can you imagine how bad it will be when G-C finally realizes how badly he has been conned all these years?

[The Grand Nudger]

Psh, he'll be dead before that happens...and that's why religionism persists.

[downbeatplumb]

Psh, he'll be dead before that happens...and that's why religionism persists.

Yeah.
You get the "proof" conveniently when you can never tell anyone else about it.

Its the old "the cheques in the mail" ploy but infinitely delayed.

[Jehanne]

They need a soft spot to land, V.  When their fantasies come crashing down it can be very disconcerting.  We who have already dismissed this horseshit have a duty to be there for them.  It's the "xtian" thing to do!

 

Can you imagine how bad it will be when G-C finally realizes how badly he has been conned all these years?

I love this forum!  Without it, my "spiritual" existence would be a quite lonely one!!

[polymath257]

I've noted a dramatic upswing in just the last year in the blatant rebellion against God's stated Word as recorded in Holy Scripture by the supposedly self-identifying believers themselves.

It's absolutely astonishing the depths of open apostasy in the religious.


Makes me almost question the need and utility of Atheist Forums as the religious folks themselves are rapidly disincorporating their very own document of Salvation.


Q:  How many folks can an apostate lead to Jesus ?

A: None

So things are going in the direction!

I look forward to when Christian (or Islamic, or other religious) writings are regarded in exactly the same way as any other mythology. Somewhat quaint with a few amusing stories, but where everyone wonders how anyone could have actually believed them.

[John V]

I've noted a dramatic upswing in just the last year in the blatant rebellion against God's stated Word as recorded in Holy Scripture by the supposedly self-identifying believers themselves.

It's absolutely astonishing the depths of open apostasy in the religious.

2 Tim 4
3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions

[Jehanne]

I've noted a dramatic upswing in just the last year in the blatant rebellion against God's stated Word as recorded in Holy Scripture by the supposedly self-identifying believers themselves.

It's absolutely astonishing the depths of open apostasy in the religious.

2 Tim 4
3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions

Just shows that early Christianities were unraveling long before the Roman Empire, for political purposes, imposed "unity".

[polymath257]

I've noted a dramatic upswing in just the last year in the blatant rebellion against God's stated Word as recorded in Holy Scripture by the supposedly self-identifying believers themselves.

It's absolutely astonishing the depths of open apostasy in the religious.

2 Tim 4
3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions

Because *that* isn't an obvious guess. Aristotle was complaining about the same thing 300 years earlier. I think *every* parent in the world feels this at some point.