Just as in the other first world countries as education and self-reflective analysis improves a rise in atheism follows. It is inevitable and will follow exactly the model of the rest of the English speaking world and Europe. Indeed it has already begun.
2007-07-11 08:18:35 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
More and more people turning away from God is prophesied in The Holy Bible and is coming true. That's why it's inevitable. It has nothing to do with education, just lack of faith.
God Bless.
2007-07-11 08:25:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Denial of matters spiritual is foolish indeed. It requires a faith in the notion that everything was created BY inert matter.
If that is true, then NOTHING is of any importance at all.
A dead body is equal to a live body.
The simple fact that we CARE about each other attests to the existence of a benevolent creator.
Matter cannot create life. If it can, prove it.
Life must be physical if it is not spiritual. If it is physical it can be measured. It can be created.
If life can NOT evolve automatically without intelligent help, then it follows it must exist outside of the physical universe.
If that is true, Life created matter. That LIFE is the creator.
The evolution of Athism is destructine as surely as the resulting notion that life has no more value than a rock.
2007-07-11 08:33:17 · answer #2 · answered by Philip H 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't quite understand why this would be important to any Christian who is rooted and grounded in the Word of God and who is totally submitted to Christ as Lord and Saviour.
The growth of any group is not a threat to us! We serve a God that is vastly superior to any group intellectually and in every other way. Read the Bible. The Israelites were in a trap crossing the Red Sea. A trained army was coming at them with weapons and chariots. They were not fighters!
They were just a bunch of people who had been in bondage to Egypt for a long time and had little strength and a lot of fear. God parted the water, helped them get across, and then drowned the entire Egyptian army and the Israelites didn't have to lift a little finger in their defense.
There are many other things I could cite that are similar, but you should get the picture.
You are assuming that your intellectual achievements will be the thing that roots out Christianity from America. It is a very foolish assumption! God could squash your pathetic growth in one moment of time with absolute ease. You should be grateful that He doesn't wipe you off the face of the earth for your arrogance instead of boasting of your miniscule bit of
"wisdumb." Your wisdom in the sight of God is ignorance.
He is not impressed with you and neither are Christians who value God's opinion over anyone else's.
Bring it on! -- God will rule in the end no matter what you do!
2007-07-11 08:32:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, and it is a sign of the end times.
2 Thessalonians 2: 3--"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away (apostasy) first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition" (the-anti-Christ)
2007-07-11 08:27:52 · answer #4 · answered by Simon Peter 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes Atheism will grow... and so will Christianity. Religion and Atheism have both been around since the beginning, neither will edge the other out. There will always be people who know in their heart this is not all there is... and always people who believe it is.
2007-07-11 08:23:50 · answer #5 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What Monica said. And as for "igi," typical religious-contrarian nonsense. Belief is easy - it's expected, encouraged, rewarded in our society. Denial is punished. It takes a positive galaxy of moral virtues for a man to stand up and say he's an atheist in a country as nauseatingly hypocritical as ours.
As for people who claim that the rise in atheism is a sign of the "End Times" as "prophesied" in the Bible - circular reasoning at its finest.
2007-07-11 08:27:18 · answer #6 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
How do you give someone the finger? Errr, I mean thumbs down. I see the little icon with the thumb going uo or down but I have yet to be able to use it.
2007-07-11 15:47:01 · answer #7 · answered by Stainless Steel Rat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it weren't for the evangelical movement, we'd already be caught up with Europe.
In that sense, Ralph Reed and Jerry Falwell have done more to set this country back than anyone since William Jennings Bryan.
2007-07-11 08:21:52 · answer #8 · answered by Minh 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Well of course, demons and demon lovers will increase in the end times, that's inevitable, the demons run ramped in the end, everyone knows that
2007-07-11 08:24:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Christianity will be dead within 100 years. And it will take its place in history books right beside all the other mythologies.
Not that I'm a prophet or anything... :) I just can't see more than 2 more generations even giving it a second glance.
2007-07-11 08:26:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋