Losing their religion: why US churches are on the decline

[Absolut]

Hopefully the huge grift that is church dies out fully. Tax exempt and preying on the masses. Pun intended.

 

[RareHunter]

He has to prove himself outside the fairy tale his followers are trash they prove it every day well the vocal ones are so no wonder the church isn't getting any younger.


just a bunch of boomers and old gen xers that where forced to go to church







Yahweh was very engaging in the bible but ghosted everyone after Christ


Today sky dad does nothing yet people are getting smarter .

When people where not so bright Sky dad did everything....

NO real prophets(by biblical standards) just a bunch of weirdos with bible quotes and no supernatural powers just emotions when you sing a hymn on Sunday or ask for tha new car in the pray line yet peter was pretty powerful in the holy ghost....


seems like the one who you call Paul if he was real had to change the cave man laws you call the law of Moses to make it fit with Greek/Roman philosophy.

At the time since people where getting smarter most of the letters are from him years after "Jesus" death I guess he realized how stupid law of Moses was.

Leviticus 11:9 can't even eat shrimp(does not have scales).....why and how does that effect your spirit it only effects my body which goes back to the dirt yet my spirit goes back to God according to your faith?






other words your faith is not real it's reason why religious far right are actually showing how evil they are in politics


starting to realize no day of lord is coming yet boomers are getting older and older the last generation that was forced to go to church....
desperate they're becoming and it's obvious


Is there a creator of everything most likely

is it the "God" of Abraham mm mm most likely not

because Abraham's God was a canaanite God called EL and they had I think 14 Gods ol Abraham if he was real just picked one and ran with it.




So why base salvation on historical contradictions and even biblical contradictions with in it's on writings.

I think fear of the unknown makes those cling to a savior makes death easier to accept.

This all knowing God had to do was make a Man and Women that he knew would Obey in the first place from their on free will.... in all his glory an infinite wisdom yet he makes the ones that don't or didn't matter who he made and he wanted them to disobey to prove a point.


He made the "bad guy" that temps them screws everything up yet he has to prove a point to it like it's an equal
like in the story of job


Again a powerful God has to prove a point to something he created.... knows everything yet fails at making someone that obeys so waits 50 generations to becomes a man to obey his own words...... No wonder Christ died it was Gods fault in the first place because he knew what would happen and still made the wrong man first.

Same God man that said no one can take his life so he pretty much killed himself in the end...Just like Paul said the first Adam wasn't deceived like his wife so he pretty much killed himself and all mankind with him but instead of dying physical he just separated his body form Gods Spirit



make it make sense it only makes sense if this world is a simulation and that's the game manual we all choose to troll ourselves with.

Daniel 12:4
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.



Your following after Satanss trick that there’s some being controlling a simulation and humanity must ”unifyy” to fight him. You do know the internett is the modern towerr of babbel right? Nothing new. Humansss are reuniting again for another rebellion.

 

[SadimirPutin]

It certainly isn't causing any decline in nut job Christofacism

 

[bnew]

It certainly isn't causing any decline in nut job Christofacism

as more people leave, the zealots remain.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

religion is training wheels to lead people to spirituality it's not necessary if you do.

if you can't be enlightened enough to live righteously then you might be faithful enough to think that you have to do it to honor god but if that still isn't enough then you might be kept in line by your fear of the devil. so there is this pyramide of elevation with fear at the bottom and a lot of religious fanatics tend to be stuck at the bottom. their true motivation is only FEAR of the devil. those are the people who dwell constantly on the end of the world and preparation for the end. the have no actual FAITH in the continuation of life overall thus have no faith in GOD.

I'd even go as far as saying, some of them know this world is awful and they're hoping from deliverance from it so they place that faith in said god in hopes that there's something, ANYTHING better than the things they experience in this life

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

I'd even go as far as saying, some of them know this world is awful and they're hoping from deliverance from it so they place that faith in said god in hopes that there's something, ANYTHING better than the things they experience in this life

that's another control mechanism religion used a lot and was also used by colonists and slavers. the whole idea of enduring suffering to get blessings on the other side.

 

[Luke Cage]

religions come and go, thats how its been since the days of antiquity. Nothing unusual is going on. unless you the type thats shocked you don't see as many shrines to Thor and Odin as there used to be hundreds of years ago.

 

[Will Ross]

Religion has held us back for too long. Its ok to believe in a higher power but we let it get in the way of making real moves. Espousing dustiness as a virtue.

This is a goofy take religion has not controlled anything in the last 200 years

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

Idk how religion has held us back when the people in charge of our countries don’t believe in God, or any god. Imo MONEY and WEAPONS has held us as a species back far more than any religion.

You give humans too much credit, we’re a failure.

It's been used to justify discrimination and push anti-science. In addition for us (black folks) praying away a problem or shaming people to conform

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

 

[010101]

tune your television to cnn*

 

[DaKidFromNoWhere]

It's been used to justify discrimination and push anti-science. In addition for us (black folks) praying away a problem or shaming people to conform

This is some harsh truth.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

This is some harsh truth.

People like to ignore it

 

[MMS]

tune your television to cnn*

what was on?

 

[010101]

what was on?

another brother being murdered by the law*