New Harvard Research Says US Christianity Not Shrinking but Growing Stronger

Did the professor do the same analysis with the fathers of the faithful or would that not sell books?

 

Since you weren't there, you have no way of knowing the miracle claims were lies. I prefer to go by the testimony of those who were there.

 

I saw a whore come to church when I was twenty-five. The next week she was wearing a dress and reading the Bible and she stuck at least until I moved out of the area about 3 years later -- real, real bad thing.

 

Many witnesses are certainly not what Daniel Light writes that they all are, people with addictions.

That is like saying all atheists are addicted to proving no deity exists.

 

No, you made the claim, it's up to you.

 

There are millions of such positive transformation stories through faith in Christ.

 

So you admit that you weren't their either, yet choose to believe in oral myth in an attempt to explain something that the locals did not the reason for. Sounds stupid to me.

 

I reject your premise that is a myth, you have no way of knowing that.

 

No, you are the one rejecting it without providing any facts or truth. It is on you to finally provide backup for your claims, as false as they are.

And there are millions of tales showing the depravity of this god <Rule 3>

 

And you have no way of knowing that it happened as your mythical tales describe. Except my view contains some logic, yours lacks that quality.

 

We disagree.

 

We're all called to decide who we think Jesus Christ was, you've made your choice, see how that works out for you.

 

Fact: standards of proof are different for science and for faith belief.

 

Mainly because you know that I am correct.

 

Called by whom? This mythical god of yours, or those who are telling you what to think in lew of your lack of ability to do so yourself?

 

Arjay51: you have your opinion, and sad is what it is in this case. That's my opinion.

 

We all have opinions. Yours is wrong and mine is correct.

That's my opinion.

 

Did your ego overrule your reason....is that a male thing?

 

if christians were 'true' christians, they'd all kill themselves... alas, they're false in their own prophecy...

 

Did your emotion overrule your reason . . . is that a female thing?

I agree with the OP.

 

Not a very Christian thing to ask or say thus making it a female thing.

 

Non-religiosity is rising in America. Eventually it will rise past 50% like in other developed nations.

 

Distraff, the human being has need of spiritual connections, so I think the rise will even off eventually long before 50%. And, in twenty to thirty years, we will see the young Genxrs and the Millennials turn to the spiritual for meaning.

 

I asked Mr. Starkey why I was wrong and he is yet to answer...I suspected knee jerk nay saying without thought behind it was the reason and I've not been corrected.

 

Or that the evidence is so self evident that you would reject it for being counter to what you have chosen to believe, so a correction would be a waste of time.