Atlantic - Why Did America Lose It's Religion?
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Atlantic - Why Did America Lose It's Religion?
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 (10-05-2019, 01:21 AM)Cheerful Charlie Wrote: https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-conten...roquiz.pdf Rust as I am, I would have done quite well on it, especially compared to average / bell curve. I am therefore probably a typical atheist -- I know religion generally and Christianity specifically better than most theists.
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(This post was last modified: 10-05-2019, 10:15 PM by Bucky Ball.)
Atlantic - Why Did America Lose It's Religion? (10-05-2019, 03:31 PM)Gwaithmir Wrote:(10-05-2019, 01:21 AM)Cheerful Charlie Wrote: https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-conten...roquiz.pdf I got 15 of 15. I wouldn't have gotten the 4 Nobel Truths right, except for reading the original texts this last summer. Also I doubt I ever actually "read" the Bible, ... ever, just to read it. My exposure was either academic "sections"/"topics", or church when I was very young. I knew about the Kama Sutra ... but I never knew it was "scripture". LOL Christianity needs one of those. Jesus teaches you how to fuck.
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 (10-05-2019, 03:31 PM)Gwaithmir Wrote:(10-05-2019, 01:21 AM)Cheerful Charlie Wrote: https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-conten...roquiz.pdf i didn't take it, but glancing over it, it seemed like softballs for the most part.
On hiatus.
(10-05-2019, 10:12 PM)Bucky Ball Wrote: LOL Christianity needs one of those. Jesus teaches you how to fuck. Dude needs to stay the Hell outta my bedroom, that's just ... I don't know ...
On hiatus.
 (10-01-2019, 05:22 PM)Drich Wrote:(09-30-2019, 07:17 PM)SYZ Wrote: I can see we're dealing here with a religious sociopath who seems blinded to actual, accredited statistical data... I was pleased to see an article in my morning paper about a couple of towns in Queensland where religion is dying faster than the rest of Australia. The 2016 Census showed 43% of people in Eumundi identified as having "no-religion" making the town one of the most godless suburbs in Queensland, and even better, Mt Nebo near Brisbane recorded a "no-religion" count at 54% making it the highest. I'm sure this will elicit another angry ad hominem from Drich. 
I'm a creationist; I believe that man created God.
I didn't notice that Bich was still here.
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America never had a religion.
Don't mistake me for those nice folks from Give-A-Shit county.
(10-06-2019, 02:15 PM)Old Man Marsh Wrote: America never had a religion. And that's different from "Americans never had a religion." (10-05-2019, 06:38 PM)mordant Wrote:(10-05-2019, 01:21 AM)Cheerful Charlie Wrote: https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-conten...roquiz.pdf Me too. I think it's classic example of "familiarity breeds contempt"  (09-26-2019, 08:22 PM)Cheerful Charlie Wrote: The obvious question for anybody who spends at least two seconds looking at the graph above is: What the hell happened around 1990? Late to the party. The biggest reason for this was the creation of the World Wall of Why (WWW). The internet has been around since 1969. For those old like me, they may well remember the days of the BBS's and FidoNet. When Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML and the WWW in the early mid-90s, anyone who knew how to look for the information could find information. The biggest downfall to religion was the building of smart-PADDs and smart-phones. Social media has also been the biggest downfall for religion. People actually started realizing that ALL religion is nothing more than bullshit lies for those men with megalomaniacal psychotic sociopathic tendencies to control the masses. What is church attendance down to now? The lack of church attendance is the reason you see so many small churches going bankrupt leaving only mega-churches to get bigger. Without an audience, those megalomaniacal psychotic sociopaths, misnomered as Pastors, etc., have had to conglomerate the people into larger and larger buildings just so they can say, "See how big our church has grown?" without also posting the fact that attendance has risen by 3,000,000 without also posting the fact that overall attendance dropped 8,000,000. Basically, with the rise of the "internet" (which is actually the backbone of the WWW), persons can actually look up news articles that show how religion is Pure Evil, ALL lies, no substance. Many of those "nones" are also reading those books by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, etc., etc., etc. on their eBook readers. Think Critically about this. rmfr
It shall always be more important to know how to think rather than to be told what to think - rmfr
And the WWW is also a conduit for the stupid.
(10-06-2019, 09:31 AM)SYZ Wrote:(10-01-2019, 05:22 PM)Drich Wrote:(09-30-2019, 07:17 PM)SYZ Wrote: I can see we're dealing here with a religious sociopath who seems blinded to actual, accredited statistical data... Now THAT'S fascinating, perhaps I've misunderstood for all these years: I've long thought of Queensland as the 'deep north' and our bible belt. Politically very conservative and the home of a disproportionate number of scams and crooked schemes. Also a lot of retirees on The Gold Coast and Surfers Paradise. 
I was trying to decide where to post this ... I guess here is as good as anywhere.
It's from a guy's blog- he discusses an interview with Pope Francis that seems fairly common sense, to me. I guess it blew this guy's mind. Quote: ...."When I had the chance of discussing these sentences, Pope Francis told me: 'They are the proven proof that Jesus of Nazareth, once having become a man, was, though a man of exceptional virtues, not at all a God.'". Maybe there are a few who are trying to at least progress things, from the inside. 
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A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels. ~ Albert Einstein (10-07-2019, 06:57 PM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: And the WWW is also a conduit for the stupid. What was it Redd said in that prison movie? Oh yeah... "Ain't that the god damn truth!" rmfr
It shall always be more important to know how to think rather than to be told what to think - rmfr
(10-10-2019, 09:05 PM)arakish Wrote:Don't know that movie offhand.(10-07-2019, 06:57 PM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: And the WWW is also a conduit for the stupid. (10-10-2019, 09:25 PM)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Don't know that movie offhand. Shawshank Redemption rmfr
It shall always be more important to know how to think rather than to be told what to think - rmfr
(10-10-2019, 09:27 PM)arakish Wrote: rmfr What's this mean? The only acronym I could find was rocky mountain feline rescue. Any connection? I'm a creationist; I believe that man created God.
 (10-11-2019, 08:51 AM)SYZ Wrote:(10-10-2019, 09:27 PM)arakish Wrote: rmfr There was a poster back on the Amazon forums who put something like that at the end of his posts to make it easier to do a search for them later.
No gods necessary
 (10-11-2019, 08:51 AM)SYZ Wrote:(10-10-2019, 09:27 PM)arakish Wrote: rmfr My initials. And yes, my middle names are "MF"  Just a thing I have been doing on forum boards since 1983. rmfr
It shall always be more important to know how to think rather than to be told what to think - rmfr
(10-11-2019, 12:11 PM)brunumb Wrote:(10-11-2019, 08:51 AM)SYZ Wrote:(10-10-2019, 09:27 PM)arakish Wrote: rmfr WOW~! Never thought of that, but yeah. rmfr
It shall always be more important to know how to think rather than to be told what to think - rmfr
(10-11-2019, 01:11 PM)Alan V Wrote:(10-11-2019, 08:51 AM)SYZ Wrote:(10-10-2019, 09:27 PM)arakish Wrote: rmfr     ROFLMAO rmfr
It shall always be more important to know how to think rather than to be told what to think - rmfr
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