Evangelicals Fear the Loss of Their Teenagers

Free Thinker · Oct 6, 2006

Quote from Rearden Metal:

Hopefully the same thing happens to Islam.
<i>Inshallah.</i>

i think it could and is the answer to turning their youth against the hardliners.
maybe instead of dropping bombs in iraq we should be dropping books or satellite dishes so their youth can hear the truth.

acronym · Oct 6, 2006

Sure, but presumably spect8or is an educated youth, which doesnt fill me with confidence.

spect8or · Oct 6, 2006

Quote from acronym:

Sure, but presumably spect8or is an educated youth, which doesnt fill me with confidence.

Well he's 29, so if that's youthful he's all smiles.

(And youthful or not, he is the way of the future. You heard it hear first.)

AAAintheBeltway · Oct 6, 2006

Quote from vhehn:

i think its simpler than this. religion is driving youth away from the churches.
i go to a large baptist type church to keep my wife happy. at my church you are not a "real" christian unless you believe these things:

god made the earth 6000 years ago just as you see it today
god made man from dust
god made woman from a mans rib
the bible is the inerrant word of god and every word of it is accurate right down to the punctuation.
satan roams the earth trying to trick people
evolution is a giant conspiricy by scientists to deny gods word.
jesus will return any day now.
once there was a great worldwide flood where god killed every living thing.
noah collected 2 of every animal and put them in a giant boat to ride out the flood.
unless you believe all these things god will burn you forever in a giant pit of fire somewhere in the center of the earth.
god sent himself to earth to kill himself to save us from gods wrath.
ect. ect.

really i ask you. how can you sell this nonsense to educated youth today and expect them to take what you say seriously?

Yeah, it makes so much more sense to believe that all of nature, down to our own incredibly complex DNA, just occurred by chance.

acronym · Oct 6, 2006

Dammit, one minute spect8or is a teenager, the next, an immigrant, then a serb nationalist, then an aussie, now your 29?

Damn, time flies.
Is ANY info on this forum accurate?

spect8or · Oct 6, 2006

Quote from acronym:

Dammit, one minute spect8or is a teenager,

Yeah, I'm trying to get to the bottom of that one myself. Wish it was true. The rest of your list is accurate though.

Free Thinker · Oct 6, 2006

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Yeah, it makes so much more sense to believe that all of nature, down to our own incredibly complex DNA, just occurred by chance.

i am always amused when a theist will reject scientific knowledge because we dont have all of the answers yet but will readily believe that some unseen deity in the sky just spoke and the world popped up around us. which is the most incredible claim?

AAAintheBeltway · Oct 6, 2006

Quote from vhehn:

i am always amused when a theist will reject scientific knowledge because we dont have all of the answers yet but will readily believe that some unseen deity in the sky just spoke and the world popped up around us. which is the most incredible claim?

Who said I reject scientific knowledge? I reject the idea that our world was created by chance out of a pool of goo and evolved into its current state. To answer your question, your position is more incredible and requires far more blind faith.

This subject has been debated ad infinitum and I will have nothing more to say here on it.

Free Thinker · Oct 6, 2006

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Who said I reject scientific knowledge? I reject the idea that our world was created by chance out of a pool of goo and evolved into its current state. To answer your question, your position is more incredible and requires far more blind faith.

This subject has been debated ad infinitum and I will have nothing more to say here on it.

there is nothing more you could say because you have no evidence to back up your claim. it is simply emotions based on your indoctrination that allows you to believe such nonsense as god spoke and the world popped up as we see it.

spect8or · Oct 6, 2006

Quote from vhehn:

there is nothing more you could say because you have no evidence to back up your claim. it is simply emotions based on your indoctrination that allows you to believe such nonsense as god spoke and the world popped up as we see it.

Well, get used to it. As I said, liberals and atheists are breeding themselves out of existence. Good riddance.