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RE: Josh McDowell and the "atheistic" Internet
January 31, 2018 at 11:36 pm
Quote:Atheists and skeptics now have equal access to our children as we have, which is why the number of Christian youth who believe in the fundamentals of Christianity is decreasing and sexual immorality is growing, apologist Josh McDowell said.
Yippee....... a major blow against child abuse if you ask me~
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RE: Josh McDowell and the "atheistic" Internet
January 31, 2018 at 11:58 pm
Yet these same morons rightfully point to the theocracies of the middle east but it seems they want their own Christian theocracy here.
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RE: Josh McDowell and the "atheistic" Internet
February 1, 2018 at 12:05 am
I see their difficulties preceding substantially the existence of the Internet. The 60s, 70s, and 80s were entirely internet free, and that is where we see the seeds sown for US Christianity's current difficulties.
Ignoring and disregarding inconvenient Bible verses wasn't 'born' with the internet. Just in my life span (60 years) there has been a huge sea change in how Scriptures are viewed and ALL mainline faiths, denominations and schisms have diluted to virtually meaninglessness the Message.
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RE: Josh McDowell and the "atheistic" Internet
February 1, 2018 at 1:18 am
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It might seem that way, but the truth is that the message was always meaningless. It;s not a dilution. Schismatics have always existed, we just hear more about them now. Every believer sees what they want to in the face and word of god, and it's always been this way, for all gods. That's what made them such versatile tools in the first place.
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RE: Josh McDowell and the "atheistic" Internet
February 1, 2018 at 1:27 am
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(January 31, 2018 at 11:34 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Quote: The Internet is weakening Christian witness and “we better wake up to it because it’s just beginning.” McDowell added that his greatest asset, value-wise, used to be his time until a year and a half ago. “My greatest asset now is my focus. There is so much out there just one click away, what am I going to focus on?”
McDowell, who considered himself an agnostic before accepting Christ, warned that the sexual immorality through the Internet was “marginalizing the maturity of the witness of Christ…all over the world.” It’s an “invasive, intruding immorality… that is all just one click away.” He said the majority of questions young people ask him are about sex, mainly “oral sex.”
I'd just like to suggest that if young people are asking a 78-year-old born again Christian with an oak tree shoved up his ass about -- of all things -- oral sex, then disbelief in Christian myth is probably the least of their problems.
Kids these days . . . .
[Edited to note that the quoted portion is not Rev. Rye's but something he quoted. I just ended up with a jacked up post that I'm too tired to do anything about.]
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RE: Josh McDowell and the "atheistic" Internet
February 1, 2018 at 3:46 am
I remember being on a flight from D.C to Houston several years ago, where the passenger next to me was reading a book by Josh. I couldn't resist saying, 'doesn't he write a load of drivel' to my new friend and the look of abject scorn I received in return.
Guess he didn't like my British accent!!
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RE: Josh McDowell and the "atheistic" Internet
February 1, 2018 at 4:25 am
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Quote:“What has changed everything?” asked the apologist from Campus Crusade for Christ International as he spoke on “Unshakable Truth, Relevant Faith” at the Billy Graham Center in Asheville, N.C., Friday evening. His answer was, the Internet.
He's not wrong. Prior to the Internet, I was lucky to lead 3-4 young people a year into atheistic depravity, and it was exhausting. Now, I can corrupt that many before lunch on a daily basis and still have time to promulgate the Great Lie of Evolution.
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RE: Josh McDowell and the "atheistic" Internet
February 1, 2018 at 9:46 am
(January 31, 2018 at 11:09 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Since we put our posts in quotes, Jehanne, we were speaking on behalf of McDowell & friends--Poly wasn't saying they were evil--just that they think we're evil.
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My mistake, sorry. And, yet, these same people claim to interpret "words" that were written down in a different language decades after they were spoken (if at all) going through multiple copies and redactions, interpolations, etc.
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RE: Josh McDowell and the "atheistic" Internet
February 1, 2018 at 10:18 am
Well, it's about time we censored the Internet and made America great again.
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RE: Josh McDowell and the "atheistic" Internet
February 1, 2018 at 10:45 am
I think it is true, the internet is where religions go to die. Point isn't to oppress or deny human rights. But because of the exploding sunlight of information the internet provides, it makes it harder if not virtually impossible for superstition and mythology to stand up to scrutiny.
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