Have you seen any reports of people quitting the church, or are people saying this event is simply a challenge from god, like the dinosaurs, to see who really has faith?
2007-12-12 18:52:24 · 8 answers · asked by Hans B 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The world is a messed up place and has been since satan screwed up creation through Adam and Eve's weakness. If God intervened in every thing that happened in the planet I have no doubt that others would be saying that God doesn't give anyone a choice and that He is some kind of dictator.
God showed He loved us by sending His Son Jesus to get us to come back to Him and love each other as He loves us. Believing in Him is voluntary - if people leave the faith cos of the shooting, they have that choice. I wonder how many people come to faith when they escape death?
All through history, people shoot/kill others all the time (seems to be a hobby in the US at the mo') - that's a choice they make cos they are sick in the heart and in the mind
God doesn't kill little children - men and women do...
2007-12-12 22:20:48 · answer #1 · answered by Timbo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's more likely to cause those who are still stuck in that old cult to stay in it then it get them to leave.
But overtime about a third of people leave the religion they are raised in with most of them just becoming non-religious (about half for fundamentalist religion) and with very little gain by religion against those raised without religion so over the decades Christianity is being abandoned, just that because it is a slow process you don't tend to hear much about it.
2007-12-13 03:02:31 · answer #2 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They have been abandoning christianity long before that dear.
Thanks to public school systems and education, all over the world in modern civilized countries, religious superstitions and delusions are quietly fading away.
2007-12-13 02:56:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I think people have been abandoning Christianity since long before that.
2007-12-13 02:56:58 · answer #4 · answered by **[Witty_Name]** 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have not heard they are but I am sure those he are not sure of Jesus may decide its not worth the risk.
2007-12-13 03:06:59 · answer #5 · answered by Mim 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One has nothing to do with the other.
2007-12-13 03:06:19 · answer #6 · answered by Kooties 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They should, seeing how God doesn't do his job now does he.
2007-12-13 03:16:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
god kills little children
2007-12-13 02:59:51 · answer #8 · answered by Nash Wolfe 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋