PeterS wrote:
I thought three religions centered around the god represented by the bible? You conservatives always try to make this atheism vs Christianity when the battle is against all religion and their filtration into our political system. And your heart is towards the center of your chest not on the left side so a steel covered bible would have done little to keep a bullet from going through your heart.
Myself, I could give a flip about how the Bible is represented and I find no offense in conservatives hyper need to have the book on public display by our government. In another hundred years, it will fade away all on its own. You are welcome to try to prop it up but religion simply is on a downward trend, in this country and all across the world. I think atheists fixate on that which they need not worry about and it just gives fuel to you CC's--fuel there is no need to give when the truth is religion in this world simply can't be saved...
I thought three religions centered around the god ... (
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84% of the people on earth are religious, affiliated with religion, believe and have faith in God, a Creator, a supreme being, a higher power, gods, deities, and such. That's around 6 billion people out of 7.5 billion who believe in something greater and certainly more powerful and enduring than the human ego and our frail human conceits. One third of those 6 billion believers are Christians, 240 million of them are Americans. By contrast, about 10 million Americans are atheists, and about the same number are agnostic. A significant percentage of those American atheists are also antagonists, they are actively hostile toward religion, invariably singling out Judeo-Christianity as the target of their scorn.
I don't suppose a learned, God denying scholar and logician such as yourself can explain why Christianity is a greater threat to your egotistical secular beliefs than any other religion on earth. Spare us the superficial crap about Christianity's stand on homosexuality, gay marriage, abortion en mass, separation of church and state, and all the rest of that mundane bullshit, see if you can pin down the real reason why Christianity is such a threat to your self-centered world view, to your overinflated ego.
The Holy Bible is still by far the best selling, most widely distributed, and most thoroughly studied and researched book on earth. The Bible has been translated into more languages than any other book in existence. Nearly 4 billion Bibles have been sold or distributed in just the past 50 years. The runner up has a total of 800 million copies in circulation, mostly distributed or sold to Chinese and other communists, and most often forced on them by state mandate.
Moreover, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of Bible research institutes in countries around the world, among these are archeological and other science based projects focused entirely on the Biblical record. Is there another scripture in existence that has inspired such study and research? Not even close.
One thing you apparently seem unable to understand is that a person's belief system informs his or her actions, it influences and guides every action they take, every decision they make, every thing they do. If a person's belief system is based on faith in God, there is no possible way for him or her to abandon the principles by which they live. IOW, no one can separate their religious beliefs from their politics. You certainly don't. There is no possible way to prevent religion from "filtration (poor choice of words) into our political system".
It should be obvious that religion, that belief in God, belief in a higher power, belief in something greater than ourselves is here to stay, it is not on a "downward trend". In spite of your fervent desire to see religion, particularly Christianity, disappear from earth, I have bad news for you, it ain't gonna happen, not in a hundred years, not in a thousand.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.BTW, and FYI, the number of times a Bible stopped a bullet and saved a soldier's life is quite remarkable. Happened in the Revolution, the Civil War, WW1 and 2, Korea, Vietnam, and it has happened to civilians struck by bullets.
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