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My "status-quo" worldview? I think you have me mistaken for someone else. It isn't atheists that want to maintain the status-quo....
I make actual contributions to threads every day I post. I don't just snark at others and act like I'm better than them, such as you do.
Please provide 3 examples of this made within the last 30 days.
PLease provide 3 examples within the last 30 days.
You want those, look yourself. That isn't the topic of this thread, so I will now bow out, and you can keep off topic if you like.
As for the topic at hand, the "nones" growing is certainly a good thing in the eyes of most non believers. We would much prefer someone who is "spiritual" or a "cultural Christian" than a fundie that is hellbent on shaping society using their preferred holy book.
The thought is that Catholics are leaving in droves, but they are being replaced via immigration. That data is not in the survey posted by the OP, it is merely something that I have read elsewhere.
I'd heard that as well, and certainly the catholic scandal turned Ireland from a Hag -ridden Catholic dependency to a secularist and enlightened nation - state almost overnight.
And yet the figures only show a small drop -off in recent years. Maybe (as Wellington said) "I don't mind if they run away - so long as they come back". Or Immigration is bolstering their numbers. Who knows? I only know what the stats tell us, which is that Catholicism is not collapsing.
I wouldn't care what Tyson thought because I don't think he is a spiritual person in any sense. He says things that atheists obviously want to hear, but that should have no bearing in my opinion because he comes across so arrogantly.
tyson is my hero.
he doesn't say "what we want to hear", he says how it is. He actually nails how science should be presented.
My "status-quo" worldview? I think you have me mistaken for someone else. It isn't atheists that want to maintain the status-quo....
I make actual contributions to threads every day I post. I don't just snark at others and act like I'm better than them, such as you do.
You just did...and in your previous post. MOF...it is pretty much all you do.
I may repeat the same concepts, and worldview (how many different ways can you say you perceive a God Entity & what it is...relative to denying the existence of a God?)...but at least they are concepts, and a worldview.
You just did...and in your previous post. MOF...it is pretty much all you do.
I may repeat the same concepts, and worldview (how many different ways can you say you perceive a God Entity & what it is...relative to denying the existence of a God?)...but at least they are concepts, and a worldview.
I did!? Where? how so? Because I accurately said he provides nothing to the threads? Because I said that I do, in fact provide something to many threads? Not really sure how saying factual statements means I think I am better than someone, but okay guy.
It isn't even that you repeat your concepts. You use the same words almost constantly, and the same few phrases in almost every post I see of yours. Almost like you are merely parroting previous statements instead of making new ones.
You just did...and in your previous post. MOF...it is pretty much all you do.
I may repeat the same concepts, and worldview (how many different ways can you say you perceive a God Entity & what it is...relative to denying the existence of a God?)...but at least they are concepts, and a worldview.
Lol so apparently calling someone sad and pathetic is never an ad hominem attack or being snarky in her warped world. I might just have to unblock her to highlight the hypocrisy since looking at the quoted posts, she can't stop talking about me.
What's really sad and pathetic is to talk trash about someone who has blocked you and not available anymore to defend themselves.
Lol so apparently calling someone sad and pathetic is never an ad hominem attack or being snarky in her warped world. I might just have to unblock her to highlight the hypocrisy since looking at the quoted posts, she can't stop talking about me.
What's really sad and pathetic is to talk trash about someone who has blocked you and not available anymore to defend themselves.
Chill out, boss. I talk about everyone.
Again, I don't see how saying true things is an attack? Can someone explain that one to me? I mean, if you say that I am blunt and rude, which I certainly am sometimes (I am only human, you know) is that an attack?
Either way, blocked or unblocked, I will respond to whatever I damn well please. Don't like it? Unblock me and respond. You are the one that made yourself "unavailable to defend yourself".
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I only know what the stats tell us, which is that Catholicism is not collapsing.
