amyinsparta wrote:
Whose God? mine? yours? an agnostic's? a Hindu's? a Protestant's? a Jewish, Catholic, and on and on?
The only God that actually exists....the God that the founders recognized; the Creator. The God of the bible.
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Do you realize that most wars in history have been fought over religion? Millions of people have died over the centuries because someone else didn't like their god.
Actually that's false. Quit repeating it.
The biggest murderers in history have been Godless.
In their book, “Encyclopedia of Wars,” authors Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod document the history of recorded warfare, and from their list of 1763 wars only 123 have been classified to involve a religious cause, accounting for less than 7 percent of all wars and less than 2 percent of all people killed in warfare. While, for example, it is estimated that approximately one to three million people were tragically killed in the Crusades, and perhaps 3,000 in the Inquisition, nearly 35 million soldiers and civilians died in the senseless, and secular, slaughter of World War 1 alone.
History simply does not support the hypothesis that religion is the major cause of conflict.
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Best to not pretend that your version of God is the only version that's legitimate.
Sorry, I will proclaim the truth for as long as I'm allowed to...even if you don't like.
I'll also point out the severely sloppy reasoning you are displaying here:
Your point: "other folks claim that their god is the real god and so do you so nobody can know which or if any is real"
The issue with your reasoning: Just because counterfeit bills exist does that mean that real money doesn't exist? Of course not. That's horribly sloppy thinking.
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"When you pray, go into your closet.....". In other words, your religion should be a private matter and you have no right to tell me I'm wrong about mine.
Hahaha...this is so out of the atheist play book! I don't believe in your bible but I'll quote it if I can get you to shut up.
How would you like another quote out of that same bible?
"Go preach the good news to all men...." and "make disciples out of all men"
Whoops.
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We can all love one another as human beings without insisting that one particular belief system is the only path to love. In fact, most religions don't even seem to understand the concept of love. If they did, we wouldn't still be having religious wars.
The problem is that the concept of loving your fellow human is a wholly Christian concept. Without an ultimate standard of morality, why should one piece of cosmic broccoli care what another piece of cosmic broccoli does to them?
Morality only makes sense via the Christian worldview.
And secondly, nobody said it's a path to love...at least not Christians. We say this: "you will die in your sins unless you repent and believe in the only One who can save you...Jesus Christ...so please reach out to Him before it's too late and you receive the just punishment for your sins...."
That's the Christian message and that's what I'm commanded to proclaim as the good news.