Another religious topic......

[LogGrad98]

Christians are the plurality, and the fastest growing.

In the USA they are the majority; they whine, yeall, and threaten when they don't get to post that fact on government buildings.

Thank you for supporting my point.

And why should atheists be the only ones allowed to have their religion forced on the people?

 

[GVC]

And why should atheists be the only ones allowed to have their religion forced on the people?

what?

 

[Hantlers]

I would argue against Christians being the majority. I mean, if you want to believe everybody when they say you're a Christian, go for it, but it's not true. Most of those people don't even know what the religion is about, just go to church and think that's good. Just like that one dude in here who was bashing other religions but didn't know anything about his own. Now if you're going to group together Christians with Mormons, Catholics, Jehovah's then you might be closer to being right, but all of those are different religions, so you shouldn't.

 

[The Black Swordsman]

Christians stopped being religious when they started worshiping Jesus Christ instead of God and saying that they are not accountable for their own sins since Jesus died for them.

 

[LogGrad98]

what?

Stripping away every vestige of any belief at all, among a people with a majority of believers, is forcing atheism on people every bit as much as erecting a crucifix at city hall would be forcing Christianity on everyone.

 

[GVC]

Stripping away every vestige of any belief at all, among a people with a majority of believers, is forcing atheism on people every bit as much as erecting a crucifix at city hall would be forcing Christianity on everyone.

Hardly. How is no statement either way the same as forcing atheism on people? Couldn't I, by the same standard, argue that no statement denying the existence of God is forcing religion on people?

And last I checked, the 50's Christian changes to the Pledge of allegiance and national motto ("In God We Trust"...so amazingly inferior to "E Pluribus Unum") remain.

When atheists are allowed to place monuments mocking religion or denying the existence of God on public land/property, you'll have an argument. Until then, your statement is just plain stupid.

 

[franklin]

Look we can't wait for one brow all the time. Someone had to pick at the nits, ok? And some of us don't have time to read EVERY post and respond line by line, syllable by syllable, we leave that to babe and one brow and franklin and such.

5,748

 

[LogGrad98]

5,748

See? Exactly! How can I have time to read every post and do all those full page line by line breakdowns you guys do?

 

[Stoked]

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[Stoked]

Christians stopped being religious when they started worshiping Jesus Christ instead of God and saying that they are not accountable for their own sins since Jesus died for them.

This is stupidly false. That is clearly religious. Maybe not your flavor of it but ait is none the less.

 

[Archie Moses]

Christians stopped being religious when they started worshiping Jesus Christ instead of God and saying that they are not accountable for their own sins since Jesus died for them.

You can't make this stuff up. "Christians stopped being religious when they started worshiping."

 

[Nate505]

I would argue against Christians being the majority. I mean, if you want to believe everybody when they say you're a Christian, go for it, but it's not true. Most of those people don't even know what the religion is about, just go to church and think that's good. Just like that one dude in here who was bashing other religions but didn't know anything about his own. Now if you're going to group together Christians with Mormons, Catholics, Jehovah's then you might be closer to being right, but all of those are different religions, so you shouldn't.

Is there some sort of litmus test for being a Christian other than believing Jesus Christ is the son of God?

As a bit of an aside, what kills me about religion and its followers is that when some nutjob like the Christian in Sweden kills people many will say he wasn't a "true" Christian since the actions of murder contradict core Christian principles, but when a group of nutjob Muslims run planes into buildings well they are still Muslims, just extreme...even though murder seems to violate core Muslim principles. Well, what is it? Do actions define a religious belief or is it something that someone just has a belief in?