The Gospel of unbelief

[discernment]

Just more of the same:

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/calthomas/2006/04/11/193242.html

 

[Holly]

What is responsible for this flood of skepticism, heresy and outright denial of the biblical record?

What is responsible is that fact that a large part of this country does not subscribe to Christianity and we don't want it forced upon us.

Why is there not a similar cultural onslaught against other faiths?

There is.

Only the suicidal would treat Islam in this way.

A not so subtle dig.

Bis surprise that there is a big picture of Ann Coulter on that page.

 

[MzDiz]

Oh, for pete's sake. Someone call the waaaaaambulance, the majority's being picked on again.

 

[DawnCt1]

What is responsible is that fact that a large part of this country does not subscribe to Christianity and we don't want it forced upon us.
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No Holly, not "a large part". At least 80% of Americans are Christian.

 

[Viking]

I like this one best:

Adding to the gospel of unbelief is the movie version of the best-selling novel, "The Da Vinci Code," which, if it is faithful to the book, will mix a few historical facts with a great deal of fiction. The book claims Jesus married Mary Magdalene and fathered children. The film is scheduled for release next month. Like the book, the movie will have as much to do with fact as Oliver Stone's film on the Kennedy assassination.

Fact? In the bible?
As stated before: As a codex for morals and ethics the bible is admissable. As a source of fact it has the value as Grimm's collection of fairy tales.

 

[discernment]

I see MTV is up to more of their quality programming as well. Like the article points out, MTV would never lampoon Muslims like they do Christians.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200604/INT20060413b.html

 

[Sirius]

No Holly, not "a large part". At least 80% of Americans are Christian.

That would mean 20% or 59,146,827 Americans are not Christian assuming that the US population figures from CIA World FactBook are correct.

 

[troy mcclure]

If someone truly believes something, why are they bothered or threatened by those who may believe something different or in nothing at all? If one is certain that they indeed know/have the "truth", then it shouldn't matter what anyone else says or believes. I suppose I don't get what all the hubbub is about.

 

[cardaway]

Oh, for pete's sake. Someone call the waaaaaambulance, the majority's being picked on again.

Good thing team discernment is on the case. Without their blog reports the religion is in serious jeopardy.

Bye folks, time to go watch people slam a minority religion. See you in the latest Cruise thread.

 

[MzDiz]

If someone truly believes something, why are they bothered or threatened by those who may believe something different or in nothing at all?

Because it's part of their job to try to convert the non-believers, which is the exact point that they open themselves up for harassment, IMHO.
If they stay off my porch, I'll stay out of their church.
Anyway, you'd think they wouldn't want a giant easter bunny or santa claus up, since it's a secular *******ization of their holiday.

edit - I learned a new word I can't say on the DIS!

 

[discernment]

Good thing team discernment is on the case. Without their blog reports the religion is in serious jeopardy.

Bye folks, time to go watch people slam a minority religion. See you in the latest Cruise thread.

And its good to see your keen insights on every religious thread. I learn something new every day.

So tell me who am I this week? I cant keep up with it all. But you seem to have it all figured out.

Wrong again!!

 

[Sylvester McBean]

Oh, for pete's sake. Someone call the waaaaaambulance, the majority's being picked on again.

I just learned a new word, love it.

 

[Mugg Mann]

No Holly, not "a large part". At least 80% of Americans are Christian.

Holly's quite correct. She didn't say a majority, she said a large part. As Sirius pointed out, that means that roughly 59 million people choose not to follow a certain religious dogma. Incidentally, the 59 million people that don't subscribe to Christianity is statistically close to the number of people (62 million) who voted for George Bush in the last election.

So if you don't want to believe that 59 million is not a significant number, then you just go right ahead. After all, it's a free country.

Fortunately, we have the Constitution of the United States to protect us from those who would believe that the bible (or any other book for that matter) takes precedence.

Dawn, you do agree that even if 99% of this country believed literally in the bible, the Constitution of the United States is the ultimate authority in America, right?

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

Reading this thread (and all the countless others like it) is good practice for me in turning the other cheek. Honestly though, I had just about quit reading such things, having learned all the predictable buzzwords and all the predictable contributors. I have never seen my faith mocked IRL like it is on the internet. A real eye-opener. If I made fun of some of you and what you believe (or don't believe) you would run me off of the CB with torches and pitchforks.

 

[declansdad]

Why do some people see the Da Vinci Code as an attack on religion? Even Dan Brown said it was a work of fiction. Geez people, lighten up!!

 

[dadto1]

Reading this thread (and all the countless others like it) is good practice for me in turning the other cheek. Honestly though, I had just about quit reading such things, having learned all the predictable buzzwords and all the predictable contributors. I have never seen my faith mocked IRL like it is on the internet. A real eye-opener. If I made fun of some of you and what you believe (or don't believe) you would run me off of the CB with torches and pitchforks.

You hit a bullseye with this post!

 

[Free4Life11]

I see MTV is up to more of their quality programming as well. Like the article points out, MTV would never lampoon Muslims like they do Christians.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200604/INT20060413b.html

Of course not. We saw a few months ago how most people are ready to bow to the demands of Muslims.

I think that advertisement is in very poor taste, but they have the right to do it.

Don't worry, I'm not going to go bomb the MTV headquarters or set fire to anything. Heck, I'm not even going protest.

 

[Holly]

Of course not. We saw a few months ago how most people are ready to bow to the demands of Muslims.

Can you elaborate? Bow to the demands of what Muslims? All Muslims?

 

[troy mcclure]

Reading this thread (and all the countless others like it) is good practice for me in turning the other cheek. Honestly though, I had just about quit reading such things, having learned all the predictable buzzwords and all the predictable contributors. I have never seen my faith mocked IRL like it is on the internet. A real eye-opener. If I made fun of some of you and what you believe (or don't believe) you would run me off of the CB with torches and pitchforks.

The Internet provides an apparent cover of anonymity allowing some to use hateful speech freely. I've observed the mocking of practically every religion/belief/faith imaginable on the Internet -- Christianity is not alone in being mocked nor has it cornered the market on persecution. (Admittedly, I don't know about this board as I've not been around it long enough to know.)

 

[Free4Life11]

Can you elaborate? Bow to the demands of what Muslims? All Muslims?

The Muslims buring buildings and rioting speaking out (or rather acting out since they did much more than speaking) against those Mohammed cartoons. Guess they've calmed down. But then again many of them already hate us so I doubt showing a few Mohammed cartoons would have changed things. And yes I think that the media refusing to show any of them was bowing to their demands. I didn't buy the claim about being sensitive.