The point I was making may have been missed that's my fault. I was suggesting that NO ONE knows.with any certainty what happens upon death. Not one religious leader of scientist. All I am saying it that sponsor is at least allow possibility of anything. Arrogance and pride are really dangerous traits. We don't know what we don't know...
Arguing that God does not exist unless everyone believes the exact same things is the dumbest argument ever.
Before I go back to ignoring you.
The world, humanity, has evolved beyond the need to be ruled by mythology and legend.A sad reality in many places. Will new generations live a righteous life without the guidance of a clear moral authority?
Losing their religion: why US churches are on the decline
As the US adjusts to an increasingly non-religious population, thousands of churches are closing each year – probably accelerated by Covidwww.theguardian.com
Losing their religion: why US churches are on the decline
Churches are closing at rapid numbers in the US, researchers say, as congregations dwindle across the country and a younger generation of Americans abandon Christianity altogether – even as faith continues to dominate American politics.
As the US adjusts to an increasingly non-religious population, thousands of churches are closing each year in the country – a figure that experts believe may have accelerated since the Covid-19 pandemic.
The situation means some hard decisions for pastors, who have to decide when a dwindling congregation is no longer sustainable. But it has also created a boom market for those wanting to buy churches, with former houses of worship now finding new life.
About 4,500 Protestant churches closed in 2019, the last year data is available, with about 3,000 new churches opening, according to Lifeway Research. It was the first time the number of churches in the US hadn’t grown since the evangelical firm started studying the topic. With the pandemic speeding up a broader trend of Americans turning away from Christianity, researchers say the closures will only have accelerated.
“The closures, even for a temporary period of time, impacted a lot of churches. People breaking that habit of attending church means a lot of churches had to work hard to get people back to attending again,” said Scott McConnell, executive director at Lifeway Research.
“In the last three years, all signs are pointing to a continued pace of closures probably similar to 2019 or possibly higher, as there’s been a really rapid rise in American individuals who say they’re not religious.”
It's the dumbest argument ever. It's the argument a child would make.
"...The combating of religion cannot be confined to abstract ideological preaching, and it must not be reduced to such preaching. It must be linked up with the concrete practice of the class movement, which aims at eliminating the social roots of religion..." Vladimir Lenin
I do have a counter argument, Vladimir. It's because different people have different perceptions of God. The major religions are more similar than dissimilar. Our perceptions and ways of worshiping God are slightly different but not diametrically opposite which proves God does exist.Yet you don't have a counter argument.
If God's word is so clear, why does most of the world NOT follow Jesus?
We won't even get into how Xians have been killing each other for 2000 years over whether or not Jesus was made of wafers or the same person as his father.
What if you get to the hereafter and find out that Amaterasu is the supreme deity and Shintoism was right.
Holy shit, God is a pissed off Asian woman!
And she wants to have a word with me about "Yellow Fever".
Except love can be documented and proven... Sky pixies cannot.
That's a narrow view. Are you suggesting that their beliefs and practices are diametrically opposite? They recognize a higher power than man, they believe in being pure, they respect nature, respect family, they have places of worship and they pray. So they are more similar than they are dissimilar. There's only about 3 million people who practice Shintoism, Joey. Maybe if you had read Huston Smith's book on world religions you would know better than to make such silly arguments of children.
How can you prove to me that you love someone, Joey? Love is incorporeal. Same as God. How do you prove the incorporeal to someone else? How do you prove what a strawberry tastes like to someone who has never eaten a strawberry?
Yes, the universe is vast but there aren't an infinite number of stars and planets. We have an incredible amount of knowledge about our universe. Such as it literally popped into existence being created from nothing. That's it's creation was implausible because it was created from paired particle production that did not have equal amounts of matter and anti-matter as it should have. That there are an infinite number of structures of matter which could have produced a lifeless universe but only one combination that could have produced a life filled universe. That the laws of nature are such that beings that know and create were predestined. That the very nature of our physical laws point to reason and purpose. And that the laws of nature existed before space and time itself.
I don't believe you are a jackass, Joey. I believe you prefer to worship yourself. You are your own God.
Good thing my claim was different people have different perceptions of God and that all religions are more similar than dissimilar which proves the existence of God more than it proves the non-existence of God.
Same thing, and still silly.
Is this your new argument? It's even worse than your other one. I think you need to stop making silly excuses and just admit you only have room to worship one god... yourself. At least that would be an honest argument.
