Which helps explain why there are so many denominations including the Republican Prosperity Christianity, a huge fad among the Alt-Right.
America is losing its religion — and the effects will be long-lasting
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Which helps explain why there are so many denominations including the Republican Prosperity Christianity, a huge fad among the Alt-Right.
Not surprising. Humans are social animals and churches are just one of the thousands of ways we socialize.
All humans and all church goers are sinners. Some more than others. Even Confucius and Aristotle recognized moral cultivation is a life long project requiring constant refinement and mindfulness.
I only attend service a few times a year, but I always enjoy it and do not feel it is time wasted.
As for church socializing, I am never going to stop going to the vodka-soaked Saint's days feasts, and no one can stop me!
NiftyNiblick
1960s Chick Magnet
Protestants believe in salvation by faith alone.
How does that concept help anything?
You can be a racist piece of shit, a wife beater, a child molester, and a terrorist trumpanzee,
but if you accept an executed hippie Jew as your lord and saviour,
an allegedly nice guy, by the way, nothing like you,
fuck, you're all set!
Catholics rejected the reformation that arrived at that theory, but then the Pat Buchanans, Rick Santorums, and Paul Ryans showed up
to prove that altar boy diddling monks weren't our only problem.
Secular humanism has a reassuring aura of sanity to it.
How does that concept help anything?
You can be a racist piece of shit, a wife beater, a child molester, and a terrorist trumpanzee,
but if you accept an executed hippie Jew as your lord and saviour,
an allegedly nice guy, by the way, nothing like you,
fuck, you're all set!
Catholics rejected the reformation that arrived at that theory, but then the Pat Buchanans, Rick Santorums, and Paul Ryans showed up
to prove that altar boy diddling monks weren't our only problem.
Secular humanism has a reassuring aura of sanity to it.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
you mean he will be like 50% of Americans....
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
yes.....he is....
Not surprising. Humans are social animals and churches are just one of the thousands of ways we socialize.
All humans and all church goers are sinners. Some more than others. Even Confucius and Aristotle recognized moral cultivation is a life long project requiring constant refinement and mindfulness.
I only attend service a few times a year, but I always enjoy it and do not feel it is time wasted.
As for church socializing, I am never going to stop going to the vodka-soaked Saint's days feasts, and no one can stop me!
Is that like every American is Irish on March 17th and Mexican on May 5th? Just as there are people who walk the walk of Christianity instead of just talk the talk, there are those who are non-religious and then there are those who just hate others and use hating religion as a crutch.
Not a church goer here and can count on one hand how many times I've been in the past decade, mostly funerals and weddings.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
considering Kierkegaard as "Christian philospher" is problematic.......his concept of God is not as a real, existing "being" but as that which the individual has promoted to deity by his belief......."I believe in God, therefore he is".....
Just as there are people who walk the walk of Christianity instead of just talk the talk, there are those who are non-religious and then there are those who just hate others and use hating religion as a crutch.
Not a church goer here and can count on one hand how many times I've been in the past decade, mostly funerals and weddings.
I only attend service Easter, Christmas, and when I am visting family.
I have my doubts, so I suppose I linger at the margins of agnosticism.
But I really enjoy the tradition, the ritual, the people, the quite contemplation.
The food and the celebrations are not bad either!
As you pointed out earlier, humans are social animals.
I only attend service Easter, Christmas, and when I am visting family.
I have my doubts, so I suppose I linger at the margins of agnosticism.
But I really enjoy the tradition, the ritual, the people, the quite contemplation.
The food and the celebrations are not bad either!
75% OF AMERICANS BELIEVE IN GOD.
CHOKE ON IT, WITH THE REST OF THE SELF-DECLARED, GLORIFIED MONKEYS. .
CHOKE ON IT, WITH THE REST OF THE SELF-DECLARED, GLORIFIED MONKEYS. .
They use politics and many other excuses too. This doesn't make a book or belief evil. Books don't do evil, people do evil.
The Replacement Paranoia has been a feature of Conservative fascism for decades.
You couldn't have identified yourself any more as a "very fine person" unless you were carrying a tiki torch and screaming "Jews will not replace us".
WHATEVER YOU SAY, SELF-DECLARED MONKEY.
First, belief in a religion isn't required to believe in God/Supreme Being/the Almighty/Allah/etc.
Secondly, your hateful attack indicates you don't believe in Christianity as a religion. Do you believe in God? I know you believe in and support RW politics. Did you support Roy Moore?
WE are exhorted to be "Good Stewards".
Being able to help others, instead of always needing others' help, is a "bad thing" in Leftgoofyworld.
It is funny. I suspect history will laugh at Trump and his support for Prosperity Christianity as a blatant attempt to legitimize corruption and greed. 
PoliTalker
Diversity Makes Greatness
Hello Dutch Uncle,
Agreed on all points, so I'm not sure what part of my post you were disagreeing with.
Agreed on all points, so I'm not sure what part of my post you were disagreeing with.