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    Thread: How is Christianity able to grow in Atheist Communist China inspite of persecution?
Post: RE: How is Christianity able to grow in Atheist Co...
Epronovost, if the estimate proves to be not true by 2030, I will happily admit it. I am aware that some of the figures are contested, unlike e.g. the figures for Africa which are widely accepted. One...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 26 3,508 08-20-2024, 03:10 PM
    Thread: The Scientific Fact of Fine Tuning: Incredible Evidence for Intelligent Design.
Post: The Scientific Fact of Fine Tuning: Incredible Evi...
It may surprise some to know that it is now openly admitted by Scientists, even Atheists, that the Universe is in fact finely tuned for life. Let's document this: I. Physicist Paul Davies teaches: "T...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 31 5,424 08-20-2024, 03:06 PM
    Thread: How is Christianity able to grow in Atheist Communist China inspite of persecution?
Post: RE: How is Christianity able to grow in Atheist Co...
Not a student, an Assistant Professor. Read carefully.
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 26 3,508 08-20-2024, 02:58 PM
    Thread: How is Christianity able to grow in Atheist Communist China inspite of persecution?
Post: RE: How is Christianity able to grow in Atheist Co...
Here's a source that estimates it at 100 MN in 2023: "Over the past four decades, Christianity has grown faster in China than anywhere else in the world. Daryl Ireland, a Boston University School of T...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 26 3,508 08-20-2024, 02:54 PM
    Thread: How is Christianity able to grow in Atheist Communist China inspite of persecution?
Post: How is Christianity able to grow in Atheist Commun...
As most people know, there is significant persecution of Religious Believers in Atheist Communist China, both Christians, Muslims, and other Religions. Yet, in spite of that, as the below Telegraph Ar...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 26 3,508 08-20-2024, 06:08 AM
    Thread: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamentally decent Religion.
Post: RE: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamen...
I never claimed to be the "best" of anything. I strive to be a humble servant of Truth. All I wish for Atheists is they go to Heaven and gain Eternal Happiness for themselves. If they want to, great. ...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 188 25,057 08-20-2024, 06:03 AM
    Thread: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamentally decent Religion.
Post: RE: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamen...
Minimalist, read the Jewish Rabbis and Jewish Scholars I quoted. They explain the reality.
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 188 25,057 08-20-2024, 05:40 AM
    Thread: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamentally decent Religion.
Post: RE: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamen...
There is a Biblical principle called "sins reaching their full measure". God loves sinners and waits for them patiently to repent, giving them opportunity after opportunity to do so. Yet if after all ...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 188 25,057 08-20-2024, 05:39 AM
    Thread: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamentally decent Religion.
Post: RE: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamen...
Of course, while Communism is largely dead in Russia/the erstwhile Soviet Union, it still prevails in the Land of the Dragon, in Atheist Communist China. God grant the Good Chinese People are freed fr...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 188 25,057 08-20-2024, 05:24 AM
    Thread: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamentally decent Religion.
Post: RE: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamen...
Minimalist: "TVN24 quoted from documents of Poland’s communist-era secret security services, which sought to discredit the Catholic Church and had informers there." Lol. Just another Communist lie an...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 188 25,057 08-20-2024, 05:04 AM
    Thread: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamentally decent Religion.
Post: RE: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamen...
There are about 2.6 BN Christians in the world, and about 40-50 MN New Christians every year. It's Atheism that's declining, not Christianity, now that Communism is a spent force. Atheists will declin...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 188 25,057 08-20-2024, 04:47 AM
    Thread: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamentally decent Religion.
Post: RE: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamen...
"The Pope Who Helped Bring Down Communism "I have no doubt," Polish President Lech Wałęsa once said, that without John Paul II "the birth of Solidarity would not have been possible." ... In 1979, les...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 188 25,057 08-20-2024, 04:28 AM
    Thread: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamentally decent Religion.
Post: RE: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamen...
Just passing through. It was Two Christian Heroes, Pope St. John Paul II, and the Great President Raegan, that broke the back of the Godless Evil Empire, and gave Freedom a chance again. Here is Premi...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 188 25,057 08-20-2024, 04:26 AM
    Thread: The Prof. Craig-Mr. Hitchens Debate, 8.4 MN views. Who iyo won and why?
Post: RE: The Prof. Craig-Mr. Hitchens Debate, 8.4 MN vi...
"Perhaps the New Atheists think that the traditional arguments for God’s existence are now passé and so no longer need refutation. If so, they are naïve. Over the last generation there has been a revi...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 73 12,102 08-19-2024, 04:42 PM
    Thread: The Prof. Craig-Mr. Hitchens Debate, 8.4 MN views. Who iyo won and why?
Post: RE: The Prof. Craig-Mr. Hitchens Debate, 8.4 MN vi...
It could mean the points were not well argued for. Dr. Craig uses mostly the 5 same Arguments, with maybe slight variations, in most of his debates. That's usually enough to win, as most Atheists can'...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 73 12,102 08-19-2024, 04:40 PM
    Thread: The Prof. Craig-Mr. Hitchens Debate, 8.4 MN views. Who iyo won and why?
Post: RE: The Prof. Craig-Mr. Hitchens Debate, 8.4 MN vi...
Lol. Is that why virtually every Democracy has Presidential Debates, or something similar, before choosing/electing a Candidate? Debates are certainly a way to arrive at the Truth or make an informed ...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 73 12,102 08-19-2024, 04:12 PM
    Thread: The Prof. Craig-Mr. Hitchens Debate, 8.4 MN views. Who iyo won and why?
Post: RE: The Prof. Craig-Mr. Hitchens Debate, 8.4 MN vi...
Danu: God points? What's that? Chapter and verse? I was playing Hero Wars some time back, and there are plenty of points to be gained in that game. With God, it's not about gaining points but about wi...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 73 12,102 08-19-2024, 02:38 PM
    Thread: The Prof. Craig-Mr. Hitchens Debate, 8.4 MN views. Who iyo won and why?
Post: The Prof. Craig-Mr. Hitchens Debate, 8.4 MN views....
So Prof. Craig and Mr. Hitchens had a Debate on Christianity vs Atheism at Biola University some years ago. I give credit to Hitchens for showing up for the debate, unlike Mr. Dawkins who apparently w...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 73 12,102 08-19-2024, 09:06 AM
    Thread: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamentally decent Religion.
Post: RE: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamen...
Believers killing believers in the Soviet Union? Talk about historical revisionism. It was Atheist Communist Terrorists who did that. Here is one example, Atheist Dictator Joseph Stalin: "A Soviet wee...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 188 25,057 08-19-2024, 08:55 AM
    Thread: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamentally decent Religion.
Post: RE: Dawkins: Unlike Islam, Christianity a fundamen...
Just passing through, but two can play that game. I have a more recent event. "Ah, yes, the decency of Atheists. Tell us more about the decency of Atheists. During the purges of 1937 and 1938, churc...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 188 25,057 08-19-2024, 04:46 AM
    Thread: The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Post: RE: The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection o...
Here is Sir William Ramsay, the Oxford-Educated Archaeologist, Former Skeptic, and Renowned Authority in his field on St. Luke's Historical Reliability: https://mountainviewchristian.ca/2016/03...hist...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 117 16,907 08-18-2024, 06:58 PM
    Thread: The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Post: RE: The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection o...
As I said, and as Descartes did before me, if you really want to, you can doubt or deny anything you want. But that doesn't make it history, and that's not how history works. History works by consulti...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 117 16,907 08-18-2024, 06:55 PM
    Thread: US Presidential elections 2024
Post: RE: US Presidential elections 2024
I like JD Vance, who I've been accused of being on this forum, which I am not. He was a former Atheist and is now a Devout Catholic. Trump is fairly liberal on abortion, and Vance is fairly conservati...
 Xavier World News, Politics and Current Events 908 122,449 08-18-2024, 06:47 PM
    Thread: The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Post: RE: The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection o...
(08-18-2024, 06:12 PM)Dānu Wrote: (08-18-2024, 04:12 PM)Xavier Wrote: If they - Saints Peter, Paul, James, John etc - were not killed for their beliefs, they would not have been honored as Martyrs...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 117 16,907 08-18-2024, 06:42 PM
    Thread: The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Post: RE: The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection o...
Lol. Yeah, I'm secretly JD Vance. Xavier is one of my aliases. But don't tell anyone, it's a secret. </sarcasm> Anyway, back to the discussion. Minimalist. Another Scholar, though a Liberal, yo...
 Xavier Atheism & Theism 117 16,907 08-18-2024, 06:34 PM