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Or a way for them to try to explain away what were inexplicable events at the time.
The majority of them now explained, i.e, rain, droughts, thunder and lightning, illness, etc.
You beat me to it. Religion is a coping mechanism to deal with things you can't understand.
Either way, things will eventually go back to the way they were 50 years ago.
Seems to be the nature of man. And like it or not, but a religious force is more powerful than the non religious force. It's what gives men courage when in battle. You think the militaries around the world would be as strong as they are without a belief in a higher power to help them get through the worst of the worst?
I would think if military forces were truly religious they would refuse to take up arms against their fellow men and find peaceful ways to resolve disputes.
Christianity will continue to decline and may even disappear completely from the political scene.
Don't know what that has to do with your computer nerd, though.
Nothing can halt Christianity's decline.
Probably true. Christianity has been so twisted out of shape by the evangelicals as to be entirely unrecognizable and unusable under that name any more. The new generations are increasingly looking for meaning in life in pother places, and church attendance across the board is in a nose dive.
"Believing in God" is not synonymous with being a Christian.
Many people believe in God but reject nearly all Christian teachings concerning the nature of God. Your above mentioned Native Americans believed in God long before there was Christianity.
Many of the tribes in the Southeast had organized religion and dedicated buildings for the practice of their religion. They were not the "savages" some would like to depict.
These are the one the European "christians" raped and slaughtered before they stole their land.
I voted yes because white people are a bunch of materialistic sellouts who all deserve to die. And the end of Christianity in the West means moral, cultural, spiritual, and physical death.
I’m a Muslimah let me put my input. I think before the spread of Christianity and Islam, the world was a cruel, perverted, misogynistic, and violent place.
Let me give you an example. Before Christianity, human sacrifice was the norm in Scandinavia. Also, we are aware how Roman/Greek culture was. They were sexually degenerate. People would participate in orgies, have sex with animals, sex with family and of course, old men would rape 12-14 year old boys. It was a crazy world back then. I would say even worst than today. That is why, God sent Abrahamic religions. He wanted to tell people how they should live their lives.
I’m a Muslimah let me put my input. I think before the spread of Christianity and Islam, the world was a cruel, perverted, misogynistic, and violent place.
Let me give you an example. Before Christianity, human sacrifice was the norm in Scandinavia. Also, we are aware how Roman/Greek culture was. They were sexually degenerate. People would participate in orgies, have sex with animals, sex with family and of course, old men would rape 12-14 year old boys. It was a crazy world back then. I would say even worst than today. That is why, God sent Abrahamic religions. He wanted to tell people how they should live their lives.
It was the same in the Middle East too.
You have a very flawed view of the ancient world.
If morality is the reason you support Christianity, or monotheistic religions in general, that is a flawed reason. Not only can it be easily shown that people commonly disregard Christian morality, there are perfectly functional secular systems of morality.
I’m a Muslimah let me put my input. I think before the spread of Christianity and Islam, the world was a cruel, perverted, misogynistic, and violent place.
Let me give you an example. Before Christianity, human sacrifice was the norm in Scandinavia. Also, we are aware how Roman/Greek culture was. They were sexually degenerate. People would participate in orgies, have sex with animals, sex with family and of course, old men would rape 12-14 year old boys. It was a crazy world back then. I would say even worst than today. That is why, God sent Abrahamic religions. He wanted to tell people how they should live their lives.
It was the same in the Middle East too.
That sounds pretty much like now. (Of course, up until relatively lately, Christians hid all that behind closed doors)
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