America is being besieged by Biblical illiteracy

And I responded once again, that generalizing an entire belief for the acts of the minority is about as responsible as calling an entire race thieves because you saw a minority steal.

 

No, that any statement portrayed as fact needs references to solidify the statement or it's just an opinion.

 

Sly will accept hearsay and repeat it. Perhaps he doesn't know the difference.

 

I didn't find anything particularly egregious in this article, it even started out fairly close to the mark.

" The Barna Group, a Christian polling firm, found in 2012 that evangelicals accepted the attitudes and beliefs of the Pharisees—religious leaders depicted throughout the New Testament as opposing Christ and his message—more than they accepted the teachings of Jesus."

I found it becoming a bit tedious though, lamenting about the Bible being put together some what like making sausage. The book, Who Wrote the Bible does a much better job.

However, None of these scholarly works gets to the point, the teachings of Jesus, whether you believe in him to be, a man or not, God or not, or a fabrication, had a profound effect on man that was good. Good compared to the teaching of Mosaic law or barbaric lack of law. It seems to me that the Bible was indeed constructed, however messy, to show the teachings Jesus as a great step forward for man to follow.

It just doesn't get through to many, and this is true in large part do to the continuous resistance campaign of the modern day pharisees, the Progressives and their henchmen the atheists.

 

Religion was invented by the ruling class to control, confuse, and otherwise occupy the gullible masses to prevent revolution.

And this thread is proof it works.

 

Rather shallow take there MARIS. Well, perhaps you do feel confused. Sorry to hear it.

I don't.

 

Newsweek: The only magazine Time can still make fun of...

 

HAHAHAHAH!

 

Well that's weird since most revolutions were done so by religious groups. But we know you are Maris, the ruler of hyperbole

 

The opposite is true. Nearly all major revolutions throughout history were mounted against oppression by a ruling "religious group".

 

Wrong! The American idependence was backed by a religious belief, many Muslim revolutions were religious as well. Then add Hinduism and their revolt for independence into the mix.

You are only grasping on Communism, which the ideology doesn't support religion. The French Revolution was anti religion as well, but most others weren't.

 

The American Revolution had absolutely nothing to do with religion. Zip, zilch, nada. Fuggetaboutit. Never happened.
Not sure where you got such a wrongheaded idea, but it certainly wasn't from any history book/class.

Since you fail to mention any other specific revolution that you think was led by a religious group I have nothing else to rebut at this time.

 

Really?! And that's why they said "freedom of religion?" As one of our rights?! America may not be very "religious" now, but they absolutely were back then.

 

Mags, you need to actually read the first amendment. It's every bit as much about freedom from religion as it is about freedom of religion:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

Our founding fathers did not want the government they created meddling in religion in any way. That seems pretty obvious from the wording of the first amendment. The American Revolution was not about religion, it was about self-rule.

BNM