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    Default Are Christians Ignorant, Uneducated, Simpletons? Sort Of

    White Christianity is in big trouble. And it’s its own biggest threat.


    When we’ve reached a place where good Christian folk think it’s a matter of major theological principle not to sell pastries to gay people but are willing to give pedophiles a pass, I think it’s safe to say that American Christianity today — white American Christianity in particular — is in a pretty sorry state.

    It’s not just that a vocal segment of white Christians can’t tell righteous leaders from sexual predators and overestimate the power of baked goods to communicate spiritual messages; our failures are wider and deeper and more foundational than that. We’re remarkably ignorant of the history and the current state of the world we inhabit, and no better with scientific knowledge either.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.a2314f75353f
    “If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”

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    Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.


    “If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."






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    Christians ranked as the second most educated religious group [behind jews] around in the world with an average of 9.3 years of schooling.[6] Christians were found to have the second highest number of graduate and post-graduate degrees per capita while in absolute numbers ranked in the first place (220 million).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_education
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    I think he is talking about morality, not education........
    "There is no question former President Trump bears moral responsibility. His supporters stormed the Capitol because of the unhinged falsehoods he shouted into the world’s largest megaphone," McConnell wrote. "His behavior during and after the chaos was also unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals after it ended."



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    Quote Originally Posted by Heff View Post
    Christians ranked as the second most educated religious group [behind jews] around in the world with an average of 9.3 years of schooling.[6] Christians were found to have the second highest number of graduate and post-graduate degrees per capita while in absolute numbers ranked in the first place (220 million).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_education

    Not all Christians are fundamentalists or evangelicals either.. Not all are creationists.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shill View Post
    I think he is talking about morality, not education........
    Morality?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Heff View Post
    Christians ranked as the second most educated religious group [behind jews] around in the world with an average of 9.3 years of schooling.[6] Christians were found to have the second highest number of graduate and post-graduate degrees per capita while in absolute numbers ranked in the first place (220 million).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_education
    But what about those Easter Worshipers?

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    Don't confuse Christianity with what some humans do in the name of religion. The problem is with how some apply their religion. This is applicable to every religious and secular group, not just Christians.

    If a radical Islamist thinks he is supposed to kill infidels in the name of Allah, that problem is with that person, not Islam.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    I think he is talking out his ass.
    I know, right?.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill View Post
    I think he is talking about morality, not education........
    Too funny watching 'rats argue about morality...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post

    If a radical Islamist thinks he is supposed to kill infidels in the name of Allah, that problem is with that person, not Islam.
    Actually, that "radical" is practicing what his Koran tells him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soul View Post
    Actually, that "radical" is practicing what his Koran tells him.
    Stop advertising your ignorance.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    Stop advertising your ignorance.
    Apparently you never read the damn book lol.

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    Is that why they keep funding Israel?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soul View Post
    Apparently you never read the damn book lol.
    I have read the book, you ignoramus.
    He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    I have read the book, you ignoramus.
    Then you failed to comprehend.

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