Originally Posted by APDDSN0864
Originally Posted by antlers
Why do you men think people are leaving it nowadays…? What are some of the reasons that you men think people simply don’t believe it anymore, or no longer find it attractive…?

I see more and more folks who are Christians leaving religion, not their individual relationships with God. There is a huge difference.

Even Jesus decried religion and He was a Jewish Theologian!

As is continually pointed out (and rightly so) by the atheists and agnostics here, religion has caused more human suffering and death than even Communism, and that's saying a lot!

Having a personal relationship with God, minus the religious laws, is the way God intended it to be. It's all right there in the Bible, which has been twisted for centuries by those who would obtain and maintain power and control.


Ed


I think you're on it, Ed.

You can hand human beings the most perfectly configured institutions, such as our Constitution or the Gospel, and in short order they will corrupt it, pervert it, or mutilate it in some way. Subtly, at first, so as to fabricate an advantage or power over others, and then full force and without a care that others see through their facade.

There is nothing wrong with Christianity. There is great misunderstanding of what it essentially is. When you see Olsteen on the tube you're not seeing Christianity, you're seeing unbridled avarice...antichristianity.

Don't be the darkness.

America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.