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Like I've said in previous posts, people can continue pulling away from God but God's presence remains and they will be judged. All of these surveys mean diddly squat whether it favors the majority or just the minority of believers. God knows the true heart of an individual not a survey polling.
And your post means as much to those who do not beleive in your God as a post addressed to you from a Muslim, Hindu or Buddist saying the same about their diety.
Like I've said in previous posts, people can continue pulling away from God but God's presence remains and they will be judged. All of these surveys mean diddly squat whether it favors the majority or just the minority of believers. God knows the true heart of an individual not a survey polling.
There is only one path to Heaven and that is God through His Son Jesus Christ. I don't care what others say as I will not intervene in their beliefs as I am more mature than to cut their beliefs apart, I just need to know my personal Savior and know that I will attain Heaven one day to be with the Lord.
There is only one path to Heaven and that is God through His Son Jesus Christ. I don't care what others say as I will not intervene in their beliefs as I am more mature than to cut their beliefs apart, I just need to know my personal Savior and know that I will attain Heaven one day to be with the Lord.
1.6 billion Muslims disagree. Who is right? You or they? Maybe neither?
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Like I've said in previous posts, people can continue pulling away from God but God's presence remains and they will be judged. All of these surveys mean diddly squat whether it favors the majority or just the minority of believers. God knows the true heart of an individual not a survey polling.
The good part is that secularism will be less and less subject to the tyranny of the religious zealots. The reducing numbers of 'believers' will be free to practice their religion, but the impact of them doing so will finally be reduced to impacting only themselves and unfortunately their children until the children get older, but not the greater society.
There is only one path to Heaven and that is God through His Son Jesus Christ. I don't care what others say as I will not intervene in their beliefs as I am more mature than to cut their beliefs apart, I just need to know my personal Savior and know that I will attain Heaven one day to be with the Lord.
I also believe Jesus is THE way. On the other hand, it's not going to bother me in the least if God decides to save ALL religious people, or even those "horrible" atheists and agnostics. I'll praise God for it. After all, don't we preach the Good News is for everyone? If it is, why the overwhelming desire among conservative Christians to be "right!"
My introspection has revealed to me that I am totally unworthy to called His. Why then should I go around preaching "I'm not worthy, but I'm more worthy than Freak who has raked me over the coals a time or two, or Arequipa who has certainly proven to be quite educated, logical, and thoughtful--but I know Jesus and he doesn't? Or should I see myself as unworthy but better than you who are caught up in judgmental type of Christianity that praises it's own "knowledge" of the Bible?
That's the difficulty of fundamentalist Christianity which always seeks to find someone not "worthy," while ignoring their own unworthiness. We are all equally unworthy without necessarily being "bad" human beings.
As for me I hope we can all apologize to God in whatever afterlife there might be for our inevitable errors and have a cold beer. And then spend a few decades saying, "I told you so! about every topic under the sun. THAT would be Heaven.
Yes, but when you take the total of the entire Christian population of each state (Hispanic and black included) I bet those states aren't minority states then. Christians all believe in the same God regardless of who tries to split us up and divide us according to ethnicity and skin color. Though the article is right, the younger set is being wooed by the atheist/"none" belief system while the older Christians, the "Greatest Generation" is dying off.
Yes, but when you take the total of the entire Christian population of each state (Hispanic and black included) I bet those states aren't minority states then. Christians all believe in the same God regardless of who tries to split us up and divide us according to ethnicity and skin color. Though the article is right, the younger set is being wooed by the atheist/"none" belief system while the older Christians, the "Greatest Generation" is dying off.
You obviously haven't read any of conservative Christian researcher George Barna's work. He states that what is driving away young people from the church is conservative christianity's message of hate and exclusivity. At least that's what evangelical young people are telling the Barna Group.
But if the message is the problem, why don't conservatives alter it? If it were Good News, people would flock to it. Rather it appears to be the same old "I'm right, you're wrong" news practiced by conservative christianity with regard to racism and women in the past, and by trying to turn the Bible from a faith book into a scientific and sociological book in the here and now. Young people are smarter than that, so they don't see the relevance of a religion relying on outmoded thinking.
You obviously haven't read any of conservative Christian researcher George Barna's work. He states that what is driving away young people from the church is conservative christianity's message of hate and exclusivity. At least that's what evangelical young people are telling the Barna Group.
Most evangelicals won't think this relevant as they regard Jehovah's Witnesses as a cult anyway, but I can't help but be put in mind of a couple of teenage girls who came to my door a little bit ago and wanted to hand me an invite to "a local event", no conversation, and they cleared out in double-time. It turned out to be a JW tract / invitation to an Easter-related event as well as a sermon entitled, tellingly, "A Promise of Perfect Family Happiness"*
My guess is that they are being groomed for more aggressive tactics later, but it was funny / sad what they are being put up to, and I can only imagine the humiliation they feel at some level not too deep down, doing this kind of thing. Most kids under the age of 25 or so are still convinced that everyone cares how they look / groom / fit in / think / how cool they are; how must this raise that to a fever pitch and how hard must the Collective work to break their spirit before it's too late?
* Omitted subtitle: "... in exchange for your mindless devotion to us".
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