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Jesus has been retired by the UK public ...
Jan 18th, 2016 at 7:44am
 
The majority of adult white Brits have put Jesus out to pasture.

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Reply #1 - Jan 18th, 2016 at 7:52am
 
its not how you pray its how you live..

if we are getting more feral..and murderous  then I agree we have forsaken Jesus...

in the mean time I almost never go to church..

I dont consider that to be essential for me to be a Christian
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Reply #2 - Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:02am
 
Lord Herbert wrote on Jan 18th, 2016 at 7:44am:
The majority of adult white Brits have put Jesus out to pasture.

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England's established Church has been dying for decades, largely by having essentially non-christian beliefs and practices. Ironically, Australian Churches are setting up congregations there and thriving. Hillsong has several there with a few thousand members as does and Adelaide group. Several American churches are doing the same. The Anglican Church is one generation away from non-existence.
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Reply #3 - Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:06am
 
People I guess don't need  fear of an afterlife to make them do the right thing anymore.
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In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

No evidence whatsoever it can be attributed to George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair (in fact the same guy)
 
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Reply #4 - Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:20am
 
As people become more accepting of reality and less accepting of pie-in-the-sky wishful-thinking, the superstitions that underpin religious observance will slowly wither and die on the vine as intellectually redundant and insupportable.

But it must be allowed to die a natural death.

We live in an Age of Reason in which critical-thinking is even allowed Western adults to question the Bible's fictionalised accounts of Life, the Universe, and everything in between ... a burning-at-the-stake offence not so long ago.

But more than just asking "Does God exist?", most thinking people have gone beyond that to now ask ... "Is God's moral conscience as good as mine?" - with the answer coming back in the negative over so many unnecessarily cruel events that we witness every day in our news bulletins.

There was no intercession by God at Auschwitz ... or in the children's cancer wards ... That's because of 'free will'.

So if there's a God - so what? In terms of human generations slowly crawling their way forward to a more improved civilisation - 'God' is totally irrelevant.

It's heartening to know that at least 50% of Britain's white adult population is at last emerging into the light after 2000 years of being stoned on Biblical fantasies.

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Reply #5 - Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:29am
 
Now I'm worried its the fifth sign of the apocalypse.
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In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

No evidence whatsoever it can be attributed to George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair (in fact the same guy)
 
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Reply #6 - Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:31am
 
Lord Herbert wrote on Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:20am:
As people become more accepting of reality and less accepting of pie-in-the-sky wishful-thinking, the superstitions that underpin religious observance will slowly wither and die on the vine as intellectually redundant and insupportable.

But it must be allowed to die a natural death.

We live in an Age of Reason in which critical-thinking is even allowed Western adults to question the Bible's fictionalised accounts of Life, the Universe, and everything in between ... a burning-at-the-stake offence not so long ago.

But more than just asking "Does God exist?", most thinking people have gone beyond that to now ask ... "Is God's moral conscience as good as mine?" - with the answer coming back in the negative over so many unnecessarily cruel events that we witness every day in our news bulletins.

There was no intercession by God at Auschwitz ... or in the children's cancer wards ... That's because of 'free will'.

So if there's a God - so what? In terms of human generations slowly crawling their way forward to a more improved civilisation - 'God' is totally irrelevant.

It's heartening to know that at least 50% of Britain's white adult population is at last emerging into the light after 2000 years of being stoned on Biblical fantasies.

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Herb?  I'm impressed!  A very very good post!  +50000000000

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Reply #7 - Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:33am
 
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:29am:
Now I'm worried its the fifth sign of the apocalypse.


You're another one ...


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Reply #8 - Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:39am
 
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:06am:
People I guess don't need  fear of an afterlife to make them do the right thing anymore.


You judge that by the utopian, war-free, crime-free, violence free word of 2016?
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Reply #9 - Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:42am
 
mariacostel wrote on Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:39am:
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:06am:
People I guess don't need  fear of an afterlife to make them do the right thing anymore.


You judge that by the utopian, war-free, crime-free, violence free word of 2016?

The majority of conflicts are the result of religion.  For some interesting reason it can be seen that as a country becomes  more secular it becomes more prosperous and peaceful.   I wonder why....
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Reply #10 - Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:50am
 
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:06am:
People I guess don't need  fear of an afterlife to make them do the right thing anymore.


That's actually quite insightful of you.

That's the personal reason for people opting out of religious observances, but on a more social level 98% of the world's population is obliged to be visibly religious so as not to be ostracised from their village community and be thought to be witches deserving of being stoned or burned to death.
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Reply #11 - Jan 18th, 2016 at 9:02am
 
sir prince duke alevine wrote on Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:42am:
For some interesting reason it can be seen that as a country becomes  more secular it becomes more prosperous and peaceful.   I wonder why....


Correct.

It's an inverse proportion thing.

The more saturated the society is with religious mania - the poorer the country, and the more likely the country is run by a corrupt military junta or a gangster family dynasty with a feared Secret Police to grab any whingers off the streets.

It's why the US hasn't reached its full potential yet. It's a country where religion is pounded into the schoolchildren as with no other Western country except Ireland, Italy, Greece and Poland.




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Reply #12 - Jan 18th, 2016 at 9:11am
 
mariacostel wrote on Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:39am:
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Jan 18th, 2016 at 8:06am:
People I guess don't need  fear of an afterlife to make them do the right thing anymore.


You judge that by the utopian, war-free, crime-free, violence free word of 2016?



No I judge that from the violence associated with religious types, ISIS, al-Qaeda, Republican gun nuts.
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In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

No evidence whatsoever it can be attributed to George Orwell or Eric Arthur Blair (in fact the same guy)
 
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Reply #13 - Jan 18th, 2016 at 9:14am
 


"Mankind says God does not exist."
       ???

Well shock, horror!     ...and boo-hoo!

I'm sure that God is quaking in his boots!             Smiley



".....as the days of Noe were...."

Genesis 6:5
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.


Revelation 14:15-19
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.


Joel 3:13
Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.


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"....And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
Luke 16:31
 
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Reply #14 - Jan 18th, 2016 at 9:27am
 
Grin Grin Grin

My apologies, Yadda!

I'm going out to the backyard RIGHT NOW to dig a fox-hole where I'm going to jump in and not be an atheist!


(No atheists in fox-holes)


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