Evangelicals Fear the Loss of Their Teenagers

[Free Thinker]

Quote from spect8or:

You don't? Well you certainly did a good impression of one who does. If that is your only beef with Christians, that they 'shut their doors', why the prattle about evolution (or the pope or whatever)?

to defend america against people like you who try to force america to teach its children that the stories in the bible are true.

 

[spect8or]

Quote from vhehn:

to defend america against people like you who try to force america to teach its children that the stories in the bible are true.

So then you do begrudge me my beliefs. Sheesh. Make your mind up. (All that even despite my admitting I don't believe the entire Bible is literally true. A hard man to please.)

 

[stu]

Quote from spect8or:

And how will you 'stand up' wizbrained Muslims, stu(pid)? ET theists are (mostly) a reasonable bunch, willing to endure the huffy (and often dishonest) swipes you intersperse your arguments with and reply to them with tones of reason and yet I'm not aware of one ET theist you've managed to convince to abandon theism. What chance then with irascible Muslims? Please, it's you who's making me laugh. You'll stand up to Muslims, pfft.

From the remarks you have made it is abundantly clear you would not be one of the reasonable bunch you describe.
Most "ET theists" as you call them are crude, insulting and self-contradictory. A few are not and I have been pleased to hold civil conversation and debate with them.
That post of yours above is the epitome of the approach by most "ET theists" who are are angry, snarling and aggressively over defensive in holding their religious perseqution complexes , many of whom at the drop of a hat will rush to be abusive, as you have confirmed yourself.

It's not your beliefs that are begrudged, it is the arrogant attitude that you have some extraordinary right to practice the shoving of them down the throats of everyone, including other peoples' children, that is begrudged.

 

[murray t turtle]

Quote from Sam123:

You dumb Democrats. You can’t even get your October surprises right. Conservatives will still go to the polls to secure your defeat like the rising sun on election day.

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True, lots of truth, thereSam123 ;
but Zell Miller was/is a wise democrat.

And the dems that leaked all the news about the late FLA Republican federal rep who apparently tried to seduce his federal youth workers,
those dems weren't so dumb.

 

[murray t turtle]

Quote from acronym:

"Teenagers lose their fear of evangelicals"

Bout time. Or did i read that wrong?



Could have sworn, Z10 hadnt posted (much, for a few days) i was becoming concerned he had fallen ill or something

Perhaps, got sick, and went into toxic schlock..............................

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Think you read it right,Acronym.

murray TT

 

[traderob]

Quote from spect8or:

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What about liberals, though? Those suckers are breeding themselves out of existence. (Births below replacement rate.) Good. Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of people.

 

[ZZZzzzzzzz]

Most "ET atheists" are crude, insulting and self-contradictory. A few are not and I have been pleased to hold civil conversation and debate with them.

It's not your beliefs stu that are begrudged, it is the arrogant attitude that you have, the projection that you have some extraordinary right to practice the shoving of them down the throats of everyone, including other peoples' children, that is begrudged.

Quote from stu:

From the remarks you have made it is abundantly clear you would not be one of the reasonable bunch you describe.
Most "ET theists" as you call them are crude, insulting and self-contradictory. A few are not and I have been pleased to hold civil conversation and debate with them.
That post of yours above is the epitome of the approach by most "ET theists" who are are angry, snarling and aggressively over defensive in holding their religious perseqution complexes , many of whom at the drop of a hat will rush to be abusive, as you have confirmed yourself.

It's not your beliefs that are begrudged, it is the arrogant attitude that you have some extraordinary right to practice the shoving of them down the throats of everyone, including other peoples' children, that is begrudged.

 

[Haroki]

Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:

Most "ET atheists" are crude, insulting and self-contradictory. A few are not and I have been pleased to hold civil conversation and debate with them.

It's not your beliefs stu that are begrudged, it is the arrogant attitude that you have, the projection that you have some extraordinary right to practice the shoving of them down the throats of everyone, including other peoples' children, that is begrudged.

Wow,

nice post, dude...

 

[spect8or]

Quote from stu:



It's not your beliefs that are begrudged, it is the arrogant attitude that you have some extraordinary right to practice the shoving of them down the throats of everyone, including other peoples' children, that is begrudged.

I've never once claimed nor even intimated that I have such a right.

Go and reread your own posts stu. It is my (our) beliefs you begrudge.

 

[maxpi]

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?

If you really flesh all that out with some knowledge it is actually a good set of assumptions for basing thought on and making good decisions. The "conspiracy" part regarding the scientists is over the top, they are not conspiring, they just don't care about the Bible and are bothered by the people that do.

I have not found that Satan has to roam the earth much, what he does is get people to believe lies, usually at a time of emotional trauma, and he then has partial control over them until they confess the sin of believing the lie. It takes years to get rid of it all, years, that's why I don't watch these religious guys on TV or pay close attention to most church teachers, they don't understand that.

Chuck Missler can explain the disparity between what "science" [it's conjecture] thinks about the timeline of things and what the Bible says.

I am respecting everybody's opinion and never apologizing for my own.