IS THE CHURCH DYING OFF?
While I see a a large scale most people aren't willing to pick up M 16 and attack churches like we do to Iraquis people but I am starting to see that a large percentage of people are set dead against the church. A lot of people seem to think that science is at war with the church and that the church is just a bunch of hipocrites enslaving people and taking their will away from them, but how can we truly say that when our enture moral institution has been created by it. It seems that when a lot of people go through hardships, those who really aren't religious in any way they suddenly take up arms against the church blaming them for all their problems and calling all people who believe in something they cannot see foolish. We can't see cells or atoms and yet we all know that they are their, we can't feel light yet it is always around us, is their a reason why all our great philosiphors, scientist and leaders were Christians, or do you think that because hey have a quarrel with the church they simply huddled in a dark corner created be them and said "The church is wrong so anyone who believes in it is stupid." no they changed it, when you love something and you see that it is doing something wrong you try and change it, you don't lock yourself away. But no, because we don't believe that we should sacrifice something for others we just call it a blind and foolish institution. Where are the poeple who were willing to die by their words, to protect the innocent, to care for the sick and elderly (I know that their are people who work in nursing home who disbelieve in the church, but they only see what they are doing as a job a 9 - 4 not as something good or special), why have people gotten so ignorant, we have information at our fingertips. When you find something wrong aren't you supposed to try to change it, when African Americans wanted to be treated equally didn't they march, did they rebel (Yes I know the Black Panther but their were like 45 people in it out of 190,000,000) against American and take up arms. No becasue they saw the country and they loved it so they wanted to change it, when you dwelve deeper onto something you can change it, people, humans have existed only for millions of years because of their ability to take difficult situation, learn form them and adapt. So why is everyone attacking the church, are we going to have some religious revolution, where alll religious people are killed off because they see sonmething that you don't and you don't like them, hasn't every country's foundation been against elitism, didn't our grandparents fought against the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, and Nazi Germany so that we could be free, if so then why are we condemning another people? Yes I know I switch between religion and Christianity but hey, deal with it. TruIy am amazed, these are the most ignorant answers I've seen in a while. Is it because none of you want to think, to even come up with the idea that maybe constant attacking the very thing that hold's up our moral conscience we will eventually destroy it and ourselves. Your all just a bunch of kids, if you actually believe that humans are attracted to religions genetically and that you are some sort of demigod by being free of it. This is exactly that amount of idiotic elitism that I expent from this crowd, this group of neo-communists. Do any of ou even know what scientist are required to do, well it is to present information, of which can be interpreted in any way or form, but all of you would rather lie down and let your exalted leaders think for you than question these scientific studies where is your backbone, or do you only posess it when bullying others. PLease stop criticising me and just answer the question, your wasting space. You keep citing books why, is it because you believe I haven't read any, well I have, and I have come to the point, where I see my ideal of perspective coming out. But really telling me to read this and this book isn't going to help, if you read it then you should be able to tell me about it not point me, damn have you all lost your ability to think, the philosophers and scientists you praise so highly would be ashamed, I bet you allof you went on wikipedia rwead a book and decided that you know everything, well they say that ignorance is absolute. 100 buck this gets shut down heheheh
Religion & Spirituality - 27 Answers
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NO.. or at least i hope not >_<
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Nope.
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which church? which religion? there are many more than just yours
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no
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Christianity in the UK about 30 years ago was as strong as it is in the USA now. I live in a town of about 25-30,000 people, in the main C of E church on a Sunday they are lucky to have 30 worshippers, sometimes they join the Methodists, who also have a massive church and no worshippers, even though this is a town where John Wesley visited numerous times. The larger Catholic church was forced to close and the JW's moved to a larger city, there are still Mormons though, but you never see them in their temple, it might have closed as well.
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An enormous wall of text always makes my eyes burn and water. I can't read this. Please use paragraphs. Free your mind.
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"all our great philosiphors, scientist and leaders were Christians" really.
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Specific points of Religious doctrines are changing all the time, the superstitious element of human kind which drives people to Religion will never go away.
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Short answer to a long question: no.
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Huh?
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"...but how can we truly say that when our enture moral institution has been created by it." NONSENSE!
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I surely hope so.
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All gods are imaginary See the website www.godchecker.com Read the book " The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins
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Sorry only read your headline. There is such a thing as paragraphs and such. This makes reading large blocks of text easier. :) But yes all chapels apart from one are derelict where I am at the moment, and there are many of them. Hoooraaayyyy !!!!!!! A return to sanity at last. :) Practicing Shaman.... quantum physics rocks.
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...What ! (what Church...?)
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Yes
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No. shame you typed that all out for nothing.
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The Church I know is clothed as the Bride of Christ and to live through eternity. I do not bend to secular humanism. God Bless.
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I understand how you feel. I think in a free country it will be there if people want it, and not there if no one wants it.
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hope so
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I'm not reading all that, but yes the church has been dying off for 2 thousand years and counting.
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The last throes of the Church are embarrassingly obvious in some places!
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Yes the church is dying off, but not the original, which is the human heart. That one is here to stay, not the 'elevated' christian religions. I was born again once I left religion and discovered who I Truly was 'within.' Religion only led me away from discovering this wonderful Life and it also led me away from discovering my own Spirit. If people insist on joining a religion then join this one: :) The human race! http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741 :) This is what it's all about, not the hokey pokey. :) Once you stop bullying others I'm sure they will stop bullying you. Remember, "you get what you give." Change the way you are with people and they will change their behavior toward you as well. No one here follows any leaders but thinks for themselves with the brain they were born with. That's the whole point.
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I think that the blind faith fundamentalism is dying off as the sciences begin to make it very clear that the christian bible simply is not a book to be taken literally. Fundamentalist views are not mainstream now because of this, and as time and technology pass--fundamentalism will be relegated to the uneducated being led by those who use their flocks to mantain their own personal hold on them. The religion itself is evolving--the catholics agreeing that yes evolution is most likely the mechanism of life on earth is a case in point. What will happen with the christian religion mainstream is that as time goes on it will evolve--many of it's moral tenets will stay with the church--the superstitious aspects will eventually disappear.
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Think of it this way, churches may die off, but the will of GOD remains forever.....which is most important. Our love for God, through the Son, or the Church? Traditions were not made by God, but through men., who have distorted what he intended. I'm not saying that the churches will all be destroyed or are wrong. What I am saying is that there is a reason you go to church and you don't need one to find GOD.
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Hey you deal with it. Morality and sound social values existed before any religion came on the seen, religion brought murder rape and atrocities with it to such societies in the name of the new gods. You say thinkers and philosophers were Christian! Galileo was burned by the church and thinkers existed before christianity. In fact the church destroyed thinking and ideas and burnt such people at the stake. Christianity stopped the progress of human thought in the middle ages and committed murder in its name in the crusades, North America, Andalusia (Spain), Australasia, Africa, Bosnia etc. etc. And you wonder why we attack the Church, or any other religious structure come to that! Read your history and the doings of religions not just from the bible or sermons. Open your mind and seek the truth and thee shall find, baby!
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The followers are dwindling.
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