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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
The second coming of Christ and the Rapture are long standing Christian doctrines. Harold Camping has taken that ball and added to it. He has made himself the only path to God. Don't pretend it is all the same.
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That's why I added my edit, I'm not trying to pretend it's the same.
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Yes but, you atheists quote those statistics gleefully and think the end of it will be the rejection of all religion.
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So? If someone views religion as harmful, a reduction in harm would be a good thing.
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Your making the same mistake as the global warming crowd and assuming that this is the only time such a thing has happened and it won't reverse itself.
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The "global warming crowd" isn't making that mistake because they are fully aware of billions of years of past events.
Any trend can of course be reversed, I can't speak for anyone else but I certainly haven't claimed the trend is irreversible and that religion will be dead within x years... I happen to think the other way and that the cognitive glitches that helps make religion thrive aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
Of course when one knows(tm) that one is right, an increase in religiosity is winning souls, and a decrease is a validation that the chaff is being separated from the wheat..
