Religion STUDY: AMERICANS BECOMING LESS CHRISTIAN, MORE SECULAR

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  1. magnifier661

    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    Well I have no idea why you bring up the tooth fairy. Oh wait where you trying to be funny?
     
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  2. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    Just showing off your godawful logic skills.

    And inability to comprehend any of the hundreds of posts I've made on the subject.

    Must be head up ass. Explains it.
     
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  3. magnifier661

    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    I've read your posts... Most are borderline retarded... Even barfo and jlpk completely disagree with me about God, but they think you are the forum whipping boy. Wait I think everyone does.
     
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  4. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    I'm done with you. Mopped up the thread with your bad logic. No need to go further.
     
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    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    Thanks for playing... There is a gift basket waiting at the visitor center with your name on it
     
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  6. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    I don't believe in this gift basket. Therefore I believe in God. According to you.

    Too funny.
     
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    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    No man... the gift basket has toiletries, perfume and lotion. I heard you love lathering the lotion on its skin
     
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    magnifier661 B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

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    And wait a minute. Weren't you done with me? Can't get enough of the mag?
     
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    I know Denny is making progress, but still has good way to go yet. I really didn't realize he thought the tooth fairy had a hand in this founding truth,
    "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..."
    This simple concept, is the basis for our system to work. When all get it, we will be fine, until then, there will be those that struggle.
     
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  10. Denny Crane

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    http://www.patheos.com/blogs/crosse...ation-of-independence-a-christian-document-2/

    Is America a Christian nation? Some Christians eagerly point to the word “Creator” in the Declaration of Independence (1776) as evidence:

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

    Who is this “Creator”? Is it Yahweh, the Christian god? Is it a placeholder into which you can imagine any god so that Muslims can imagine Allah or Hindus can imagine Brahma?

    No—the opening sentence clarifies: it’s not Yahweh but “Nature’s God.” At the time, this phrase was understood as the deist god of Enlightenment philosophers like Spinoza and Voltaire. Deism was popular in Revolutionary America, and Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, and other founding fathers were either deists or inspired by the movement. Deism imagines a hands-off god, a creator who, once the clock is built and wound up, leaves it to tick by itself.

    - See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/crosse...-a-christian-document-2/#sthash.4xhPYi7c.dpuf
     
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    Very Good Denny! But you know the fellow you reference is struggling a bit. It doesn't matter what the you call the creator, all you must know is you need not beg some mere mortal for your rights. Nor is any man authorized to deprive you of any rights, there is no need to discuss it. It seems the Christian understand these truth more than most, certainly better than the atheist.
    I admire them for their good citizenship and the contributions that brings to our society.
     
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    You're a prince among men.

    Get the metaphor?

    You're no more a prince than the Creator mentioned is a god.
     
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    Science of the Gaps...

    Science hasn't proved to me abiogenesis exists therefor I am atheist to natural evolution.

    Science hasn't given evidence singularity exists, therefor I am atheist to the natural Big Bang.

    Science gives no evidence God doesn't exist, therefor I am atheist to atheism.
     
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    Christianity is dying.

    This gap will only continue to grow.
     
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    You say prince then suck it back. Well fine and you may refer to the Creator as you see fit. But I would suggest, fairy may not be appropriate.
     
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    Perhaps not, it could be stubbornness on the rise.
     
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    RTFY

    barfo
     
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    I had time to read the last page of this thread. This country has needed a tooth fairy debate for a long time. Denny's board is the best.

    I want to say to those who don't believe in the tooth fairy that when I die, I know where I'm going, and you don't. Why take a chance? What do you have to lose? Believe, brother.
     
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    Yes, Denny's world is a mysterious one. At first, I could have sworn he believed that the universe came into existence from singularity naturally. Then I would have bet the house that he firmly believed that life on earth came into existence from abiogenesis (DNA life coming into existence from non DNA matter). But alas, he believes that we were made whole by the tooth fairy.

    No wonder we have the technology to build ancient man from just one tooth!
     
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