Belief in God in U.S. dips to 81%, a new low
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That’s because they aren’t teaching people anything about the Bible anymore. It’s become a personal soapbox to preach about social or political bullsh!t!
I guess those state legislatures need to start doing their job abs start mandating church attendance and belief in God.
This is probably the most most important reason to approve school vouchers and getting school kids away from the godless secular humanists that run the public schools…. And their teacher unions!
This is probably the most most important reason to approve school vouchers and getting school kids away from the godless secular humanists that run the public schools…. And their teacher unions!
I'm an ex-atheist.
The internet tends to bring out the worst in us.
I'm better in real life.
Then how can you explain Isaiah prophesying that Babylon would be overthrown on one night nearly 200 years before it happened? And naming the ruler who would lead the conquest?
I hope so. Extremely judgmental. Very unchristian.I'm an ex-atheist.
The internet tends to bring out the worst in us.
I'm better in real life.
You just judged me. Very harshly.
We all judge. It's part of our fallen human nature.
Hell really isn’t anything to joke about.
I was pointing out you were being judgmental. Is this not true. Is that a true Christian? If that is me judging you, so be it.
Christians can judge behavior. I just can't judge someone's soul.
I will say that there may be negatives associated with declining religiosity in the US.
Insomuch as religion is a positive social force in somebodies life, we may be losing something. One less reason to gather, to participate in community. It can provide positive structure and a call to good in the world.
So if we're removing that and replacing with nothing, we're losing something.
Insomuch as religion is a positive social force in somebodies life, we may be losing something. One less reason to gather, to participate in community. It can provide positive structure and a call to good in the world.
So if we're removing that and replacing with nothing, we're losing something.
It certainly is.
Matthew 13:50 - The Parable of the Net
and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
biblehub.com
I suggest you Take a look at the link provided. That is scripture was meant to be symbolic and not literal. It meant everlasting DESTRUCTION . Not everlasting suffering in a literal place of fiery tormentIt certainly is.
Matthew 13:50 - The Parable of the Net
and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.biblehub.com
And you deserve to burn in hell forever - because that's what our loving, benevolent God decrees.
Fortunately, that's all superstitious nonsense.
Being an agnostic means leaving the door open to superstitious nonsense.
Why would anyone think that's the smart thing to do?
then where is your church ? the one I was brought up in was /is Tired Creek Primitive Baptist Church where all of my recent anscestors are interred
Jesus literally says "everlasting fire."
I'm going with that and not the Jehovas Witness theology.
Because the positives far outweigh any negatives.
How much longer do you think you'll live for?
Atheist, of course.
If God (as conventionally viewed in our culture) did exist, He would know exactly what it would take to convince any individual of His existence. Because, you know, omniscience and all that.
Moreover, it would also be trivial for God to do whatever it takes to convince each person. Because, you know, omnipotence.
Since He hasn't done that, He either doesn't care if we believe and have faith . . . or He is a fictitious construct.
That isn't a proof that atheism is right. But is is proof that anyone who thinks there is a caring God who wants us to believe and have faith in Him is barking nuts.
There are lots of different sects of Baptists. American Baptists are about as progressive as they come. SBC on the other hand…
Do you think the more "progressive" sects of Christianity lead to atheism?
They seem to be hemorrhaging members...
It is funny, ironic, and sad you are supposedly staying away from the church due to the current pope. Of all the popes in my lifetime, he is the most christ-like.
Why do so many still confuse a church with God? And why do so many still confuse faith with religion? And why still do so many confuse man's work with God's? And also, why do so many men strive to change God's word to suit their desires?
You posted me a link from a jehovah witness website where the front page is literally “what does the Bible say” for current events.
Those are actually kind of interesting.
Seems that in the Jehovah's Witnesses' world, people die in pretty much the same way that they die in the atheist's world.
Except for some of them.
