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Originally posted by JayinAR
reply to post by boymonkey74
Can you cite your numbers please?
Originally posted by boymonkey74
reply to post by Fromabove
It is crumbling at least in the uk see my links in my other post.
Plus the actual number is lower than the census in 2011 because people just tick the box Christian when they are not.
humanism.org.uk...
Originally posted by NorEaster
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Originally posted by NorEaster
Originally posted by Klassified
reply to post by Malcher
I said it was more likely in comparison. I didn't say it was common. Although I have seen it in my own life, and the lives of others. Persecution doesn't have to be violent either. There are many ways to persecute someone.
True. Try getting elected to even Dogcatcher in the US if you're a public Atheist. Impossible. Most American equate Atheism with Satanism.
If more people blamed satanism/luciferianism for the world's evil rather than christians/muslims/jews I think the world would be a better place. But people keep thinking it is for wild children in caves who do drugs and have sex.
Scapegoating is easy. Putting blame where it should be is hard!
Satanists? Luciferians? These are the folks mucking up everything?
Any names you can offer?
Originally posted by JayinAR
I would remove Catholicism from the ranks of Christianity. They are completely opposing ideals.
Originally posted by Fromabove
Originally posted by NorEaster
Originally posted by NorEaster
Maybe you folks that frequent this forum can help settle an argument I'm having with a friend of mine. She says that if Atheists acquired information that could literally transform the way that people who live in the modern world perceive religion - and Christianity in particular - and began to succeed in peeling off impressive numbers of theists from (specifically) Christianity
I say that there would be an overtly aggressive reaction, and that these Atheists would be in grave danger.
What do you folks think would be the reaction.
So, Fromabove, what would happen to you if you had simply ignored the thread's premise and let it stand without your publicly stated dismissal? Would it have been a sin of omission? I'm curious.
How could I, being a Christian just simply allow such a post to go unanswered. The post presupposes that not only is Christianity crumbling, which would be an incorrect statement in and of itself, but also that Christians are somehow violent, which again would be an incorrect statement.
This would only be true in your mind and or maybe in the mind of the atheist who would like nothing better than to be rid of Christianity once and for all. They tend to concentrate all of their efforts on this one religion in particular to pursue some secret god fantasy they have that they can somehow defeat or demise God. And even if you're not an atheist, your reasoning is way off as is your argument which is rather illogical.
The people of the Jesus God are not the violent ones, the Islams are. Let me pose a question to everyone....
Would Islamists become violent if atheists said even half of the insulting things they say to Christians at them ? If atheists and Christian haters and bashers suddenly started bashing Islam and their prophet and the Quran, would they turn to violence and go after them ?
Originally posted by JayinAR
reply to post by EarthCitizen07
Jesus told us the answer.
The Kingdom of Heaven lies within YOU.
You are right. All religion is wrong. Simply put. God is real, but God is LITERALLY US.
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
Yes. I usually get offended by the mainstream christians, who favor zionism unconditionally(like most republicans do), because they attach capitalism to the equation and anyone who doesn't work enough hours at mcdonalds to get by is a lazy socialist. It burns my ass to no end!
Originally posted by JayinAR
reply to post by adjensen
Your numbers are WAY wrong.
Catholicism has only EXISTED for 1,500 years! Are we to believe that the protestant movement only began 13 years ago?
This is blatantly obvious but it didn't matter back then because it was a CRIME to even read the damn books if you weren't clergy!
How is it different? Geeze! Where to begin? They pray to Mary. They pray to idols. Things expressively forbidden in the very books they trumpet.
Originally posted by adjensen
Originally posted by JayinAR
I would remove Catholicism from the ranks of Christianity. They are completely opposing ideals.
How so?
For 1,500 years, Catholicism WAS Christianity. What did they do in the past 500 years to disqualify them, by your standards (which are, obviously, better than God's standards,) from the ranks of Christianity?
Would Christians Be As Violent As Muslims If Their Religion Was Threatened?
Originally posted by EarthCitizen07
And many controversial texts where taken away, either destroyed or hidden somewhere, during the council of nicea by emperor constantine of the byzantium. And it was the romans that fed christians to the lions in case you forgot.
Originally posted by JayinAR
reply to post by adjensen
Oh, so because the Catholics took a name that means "universal", they just always have been or something?