Correct , it's easier to follow a path that is known. Not always the best route.99.9% of Catholics are catholic because their parents were.
If you’d been born in Saudi Arabia, you’d be a Muslim.
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Correct , it's easier to follow a path that is known. Not always the best route.99.9% of Catholics are catholic because their parents were.
If you’d been born in Saudi Arabia, you’d be a Muslim.
It's "all", but we are insignificant? Since we can't miss it, doesn't that explain all the people with faith in God?It is ALL , you couldn't possibly miss it.
Present the entire statistical picture: Start with the statistic that of those who were raised Catholic, only 60% remain Catholic. That statistic falls even further because those who remain practicing Catholics falls between 25% and 33%. Do you know where parents have more influence: Choice of career.99.9% of Catholics are catholic because their parents were.
Probably even easier to sit back rather than to get up and follow any path?Correct , it's easier to follow a path that is known. Not always the best route.
People aren't very intelligent in this world. They often jump to conclusions with no basis in fact.It's "all", but we are insignificant? Since we can't miss it, doesn't that explain all the people with faith in God?
Do you think it’s a coincidence that there’s a direct correlation between belief in God and poverty and lack of education?It's "all", but we are insignificant? Since we can't miss it, doesn't that explain all the people with faith in God?
Einstein noted that knowledge is limited, but imagination embraces the entire world. Great discoveries require great leaps of imagination.People aren't very intelligent in this world. They often jump to conclusions with no basis in fact.
I think there is a lack of education about God--not to mention a lack of education of the original intent/purpose of Bible stories and how they were written. Mostly I think people should first seek and find God and then study biblical stories.Do you think it’s a coincidence that there’s a direct correlation between belief in God and poverty and lack of education?
Also a thought: It could be all knowledge begins with God and grows from there.Do you think it’s a coincidence that there’s a direct correlation between belief in God and poverty and lack of education?
No, I’m saying that the most uneducated and impoverished people and regions of the world are also the most religious.I think there is a lack of education about God--not to mention a lack of education of the original intent/purpose of Bible stories and how they were written. Mostly I think people should first seek and find God and then study biblical stories.
I know what you are saying. Which group leaves off studying religion and focuses instead on things of this world? It does not have to be one or the other. Which group, do you imagine, is more focused on self?No, I’m saying that the most uneducated and impoverished people and regions of the world are also the most religious.
The most highly educated and prosperous regions are the least religious.
Why?
Religion is imagination on drugs.Einstein noted that knowledge is limited, but imagination embraces the entire world. Great discoveries require great leaps of imagination.
Still, another favorite adage is, Conclusions are the point where someone stops thinking.
We live in this world , those who focus on that should naturally do better. Religion focuses on " god " to the detriment and / or subjugation of the people involved.I know what you are saying. Which group leaves off studying religion and focuses instead on things of this world? It does not have to be one or the other. Which group, do you imagine, is more focused on self?
Not really. Religion is the doorway into the realm of the spirit. Great leaps require great imagination. The imagination here is that there is something beyond our physical world--and that we can enter into it. Ironically, it is imagination that is the doorway into reality.Religion is imagination on drugs.
People who find themselves subjugated rather than freed by religion took a wrong turn somewhere.We live in this world , those who focus on that should naturally do better. Religion focuses on " god " to the detriment and / or subjugation of the people involved.
Hell does not exist , but some people make their own hell here on earth.catholics, most of them will find themselves in hell.
I knew religion was foolish when I was 12. Some people never grow up.People who find themselves subjugated rather than freed by religion took a wrong turn somewhere.
nf.23.06.03 #78 Writing to Jefferson in 1816 about a recent revival of the Catholic order of the Jesuits, Adams wrote,
"This Society has been a greater Calamity to Mankind than the French Revolution or Napoleans Despotism or Ideology. It has obstructed the Progress of Reformation and the Improvements of the human Mind in Society much longer and more fatally." Adam’s to Jefferson rvltn jffrsn.1816
Religion is the doorway into the realm of the spirit. Great leaps require great imagination. The imagination here is that there is something beyond our physical world--and that we can enter into it. Ironically, it is imagination that is the doorway into reality.
maybe if you stopped ridiculing people's religion, they would respond and a normal conversation might ensue...
rest my case, Folks!