Christianity must be stopped.
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Now educate yourself on the immoral slavery your Bible and fictional god endorses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPQMqsYttFI
Don't forget to stick you fingers in your ears and close your eyes LOL
It’s sad that your going to waste a substantial portion of your life and money for man-made lies. When you were born you won the biggest lottery with the steepest odds imagined. Your going to waste a substantial part of that life chasing bronze age con-men myths. I feel sorry for your ignorance. Better your life than mine. Any passive aggressive eternal torture threats you make I’ll find amusing.
no one said anything about innocent children being condemned to eternal torture if they die prematurely in a non-christian country. All children are God's children. They are pure and if they believe then they shall see Him. and i would love to know how i am stupid, ignorant, selfish, and naive
Stopping Christianity is not required. It will destroy itself like all other bad ideas. First ask yourself, why has it lasted so long? Christianity got its start in the 4th century when it was institutionalized by the Roman Empire. Before Nicaea, it was gaining popularity among ignorant, uneducated small groups living in the outlying areas of a declining empire. Canon was very carefully scripted, edited, and chosen to match up with the Septuagint in the mid second century probably by Gnostics. The various early Christian cults had concocted various "gospels" and lived by various doctrines such as Gnosticism and, Docetism. These cults were in competition with each other to have their version of Christianity proselytized to new converts. Constantine merely saw institutionalizing it as a means of consolidating control of the people. The church then gained a stranglehold on every aspect of life in Europe from that point onward. It had complete control of all communication up until the Protestant reformation. Even then, challenging Christianity could prove fatal as all dissent was crush by all denominations. Things started to change with the enlightenment and the colonization of the new world. However, it wouldn't be until the eighteenth century that men could start talking freely about matters of religion without fear of death. Yes, I'm long winded but, the subject matter deserves serious attention. To sum up the answer to the question: Christianity has relied on ignorance and coercion to remain relevant.
Enter the information age. Knowledge is the enemy of religion. It is dying before your very eyes and, there is nothing you can do about it. It is comical to watch theists flail helplessly in the sea of their stupidity and spurious claims on the internet. Most people in Europe are nonbelievers and, the US will catch up not by what atheist say but, rather, by what theists are saying. People are waking up and are getting sick of the false hope and empty promises. Not to mention, they are starting to see the money game as well. Just look at where you and I are standing. I'm standing on dry land and, your standing on a sinking ship out at sea. Just think, you will cease to be a Christian when you die and, who will replace you?
Heres a great example of what the theists diminishing numbers coming to the states will be like, a Georgia bible thumper goes to Scandinavia and is dumb founded by what he discovers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5fINBoxons
I wish it would happen sooner than later, but time is on our side.
Here is the documentary of his trip in full. Its 25 minutes long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-kANR1vJkM
lol MOFG MATAL MASS
It comes bigger of a shock to me then Georgia i think lol
How do you worship?
The art of copying information is the worship.
He still to this day processing the answer lol
Well if you think about it, the guy who is copying information at least has something tangible compared to the guy who talks to the wall lol.
Now I can die in peace, i have seen it all lol
Im still ROFL from watching a christian going to a METAL MASS
That would never ever happen here in Malta.
It was one of the things that I thought would never happen \anywhere but luckily I was wrong lol
hmm, not to be the lawyer of the devil but why should the church pay taxes?
what taxes are we talking about?
land taxes?
or profit taxes?
please give me some valid reasons because on top of my head right now I cannot see one.
Also i do not know what the church does all over america so I require that information before judging.
If you lived in a small town and your house and the local church were on fire. Whose house do you think they would put out first?
lol nice example but there are argument against that.
like; the church is for the people in the town, which do pay taxes.
you must consider the church as a town relic, which is more important then your house lol
LOL....true, but I'd still be pissed they didn't put my fire out after paying my property taxes for the fire trucks and the roads they drive them on.
they will put off the fire, after the church lol
the hypocrisy would be if they prefer to put off the empty church instead of any house with trapped civilians.
Good point, surely the 911 dispatcher would take that into consideration.
well if the civilians are Christians, they would choose the church first, what a perfect occasion for those faithful Christians to join god, and to top it off they died as martyr to save god's house.
It is awe inspiring how admirable and loyal most Christians are to their religion.
Can't say I miss it at all. Big waste of time over nothing as far as I'm concerned. Geology classes set me free : )
since i tend to be hard headed and a perfectionists, the bible and religion contradictions were the ones that set me free.
But I was being ironic there, knowing fully well that Christians would choose not to die to save a building lol
Unless it was Benny Hinn LOL
You'll laugh but in their day these guys had bible thumpers pulling their hair out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAPEfdjvTqE
They should be paying income tax like any corporation or individual IF they choose to engage in the politics of the land. I'm pretty sure that staying out of political matters is a stipulation of the justification for tax exempt status to begin with. It has to do with the Jeffersonian concept of separation of church and state. I know for a fact that the Catholic Church actively engages in politics as I have participated in the Catholic lobby in Albany, NY. How have religions obtained tax exempt status? Here is the IRS version of the story: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/tehistory.pdf.
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You should read the entire letter from Jefferson. He was making the case that there is a one way wall that keeps the government out of the church,but let's the church into the government. The biggest reason is the church can keep the government morally correct. And to keep the government from destroying the church as it does with anything it touches that it shouldn't. The only things the federal government is truly supposed to do according to the constitution is to keep our country safe from invasion and to keep the courts from going outside of the constitution.
So, you'd have no problem with Sharia law influencing your morals? The letter between Jefferson and he Danbury Baptist church was indeed for purposes of easing fears of the small church that their freedom would be preserved. Not to give them carte blanche to influence morality in the newly formed government. Jefferson, being a deist would have never allowed it. Also, the language of article VI and the First amendment not allow for the "morality" on any one religious group to influence public policy. Let's see, what "morality" has Christianity offered our great nation? Justification for slavery, justification for bigotry, and misogyny, child abuse, destroying the quality of education, segregation, class warfare, the perpetuation of poverty, war, and, a fetish for what people do in their bedrooms just to name a few. Here let's examine what has been said and written: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_Unite.... Shall we dance?
WRONG!....Just hate to tell the truth how the loophole works don't you? To prove you wrong, here is Christ forgiving a criminal before he dies: last-minute conversion to Christ in the Bible is the case of the criminal crucified alongside Jesus (Luke 23:39-43). Only moments before his own death, this criminal had been an unbelieving mocker of Christ (see Matthew 27:44). However, at the last moment the criminal repented and acknowledged Jesus as the heavenly King. The Lord gave him the blessed promise, “Today you shall be with Me in Paradise.”
I want the other members of this forum to note Chuck Roger's dishonesty here and consider that in future debates.
Now educate yourself on the immoral slavery your Bible and fictional god endorses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPQMqsYttFI
Don't forget to stick you fingers in your ears and close your eyes LOL
Tell me, how is it immoral to do what you warned them of what would happen if they broke the covenant?
If you know you will have to face a punishment for breaking the law, then you do it willingly, you should be ready to do the time.
What difference is it if you are put into prison and have to work, or if it's outside of prison walls.
Do you stand against lawbreakers having to stand accountable for their actions? And were do you draw the line?
One human owning another is immoral. We fought a civil war to discontinue the practice. Your side lost.
God freed them when they repented.
chuck - "Tell me, how is it immoral to do what you warned them of what would happen if they broke the covenant?"
I guess it isn't immoral for a mugger to stab people for refusing to had over their goods, so long as he warns them first!
You obviously don't understand the difference between breaking a covenant, and robbery.
Don't do X or I will do Y.
Yeh seems to work for both situations.
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