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Number One in what, exactly? Teen pregnancy? Obesity? Creationism?
Follow the comments back.
The US is still #1 among first world countries with teen pregnancies.
We might be doing well nationally but not globally.
If you just look at one number it can give you a false sense of satisfaction.
To put it simply enough that anybody can understand it, MY FAITH in my God.
I have no faith in those other gods.
Perhaps they are all real, I don't know.
Perhaps NONE of them are real. I don't know that, either.
The only people who know for sure are DEAD, and they can't tell us.
Even ol' Harry (Houdini) didn't keep his promise to come back and reveal the truth to his wife!
Even the most rabid Atheist doesn't really KNOW! Of course, they THINK they do, and they are quick to tell the rest of the world how stupid they are for believing in any mythological Supreme Being, but they don't really KNOW anything!
I just simply have FAITH that the God of Abraham is the one true God, that John 3:16 is the absolute truth.
If it turns out, on my death bed, that my FAITH is misplaced, I have lost nothing. At death, I will cease to exist, and that's the end of it.
Madelyn Murray O'Hare was an abrasive self promoting atheist who started her own organization and was the leader of it for more than twenty years. I must assure you that most American atheists do not follow her nor were members of her organization. The woman was murdered in 1995, so I think it is best not to dwell on celebrities of the past century.
I don't have to be "fair". I am absolutely entitled to paint all evangelical missionary atheists with a common brush, just as THEY paint all religious people with a common brush!
Ol' Madelyn was MURDERED? REALLY? By whom? Where is the body?
I did hear that her son became a "born again" Christian.
Or maybe that was the son of some other prominent Atheist...
I really don't keep track of them all that closely.
I mostly endeavor to ignore them, just as I do all missionaries.
I've seen them on college campuses. They do not force it on you and don't even approach you.
You CHOOSE to stop at their table and you CHOOSE to take a Bible if you so want.
Why do so many have this fear of religion ?
If you brought you kid up to not believe in God and to stay away from Bibles then what do you fear ?
The tables should not be on public property though.
Why do people always ALWAYS compare religion and Christianity in schools to things like liberalism and birth control? Are you really too dense to see the difference? It's not apples to apples, it's not this vs that. You may have an opinion on everything but one has nothing to do with the other.. you do realize that right? If not that's your problem right there. Ignorance. Now stop it and pay attention and try to stay on topic.
Christianity isn't the opposite of liberalism, progressivism, birth control, sex ed, bad manners, stupid people, Obama or anything else your feeble minds conjure.
This is so well said! ^^^
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