Religious people are, on average, less intelligent than atheists, researchers claim.

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kiwiincambodia wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2018 8:43 pm
pczz wrote:Intersting that you picked a famous Person Of Restricted Growth for references to sex. something you wanna share ?
I take it you’ve never watched / read game of thrones? These are actual quotes from his character.
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"Religion is opium for the masses." – I believe some people NEED that medicine to exist peacefully. Let it be.

You see America today? It's the direct result of expanding secularism and shrinking religion. Prove me wrong.

This is technically NORMAL, and even foretold, as generations after generations often decline if not held in check. Great empires require great sacrifices, but what if you won it all? Hence, decline.

How do we know this? Because for the last 2000 years, roughly, scholars have been documenting and writing about a man who changed the world. Same with Buddha in Asia 2558(?) years ago. And that Muslim guy, Abe and his family, etc.

We know that these people existed, and they changed the world, whether or not the stories have been exaggerated or changed. Stories tend to do that, over time. Legends are expected to be fantastic, for power and emphasis.

Did the people have miraculous powers? Perhaps so, for the time. Perhaps they knew things we take for granted now. Incredible knowledge of the human psyche, will we call spirit, and insight into another's character. Sometimes great people are born, far more advanced than their peers, and change the world.

Granted, perhaps there is hyperbole and symbolism that may have been misconstrued by various translations, like Aramaic to Hebrew (Yiddish?) to Greek to Latin to English. I have no doubts of that.

But forecasting is as simple as looking at the sky for signs, and predicting, usually correctly, with experience.

And human nature has remained the same: subject to greed, materialism, cowardice, self-centeredness, corruption, vanity, vice and avarice.

The human mind conjures up demons, of its own. Why not the human mind conjure up angels, to combat them in the ethereal world of our immensely powerful minds?

Despite the hijacking of religion for nefarious purposes, the overall benefits are uncontestable. Doing good works, or karma, works.

Meditation, or self-introspection, or prayer works.

The only competition to religion is science, and look at the nuclear bomb, the AK-47, and crystal meth. All products of science, meant for good, but misused with huge potential for destruction.

Atheism by itself is not terrible. But a lack of faith in SOMETHING is.

Whatever works for you.
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pczz wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2018 10:48 pm
kiwiincambodia wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2018 8:43 pm
pczz wrote:Intersting that you picked a famous Person Of Restricted Growth for references to sex. something you wanna share ?
I take it you’ve never watched / read game of thrones? These are actual quotes from his character.
Aha, I had heard of it. No idea what it is about or that he was in it. :bow:
Tyrion is a legend! :bow:
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SmartAston Martin wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2018 11:21 pm You see America today? It's the direct result of expanding secularism and shrinking religion. Prove me wrong.
As far as I can see the USA is far more religious than most other western countries.
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John Bingham wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2018 7:58 am
SmartAston Martin wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2018 11:21 pm You see America today? It's the direct result of expanding secularism and shrinking religion. Prove me wrong.
As far as I can see the USA is far more religious than most other western countries.
Seems to be.
The majority of U.S. adults self-identify as Christians, while close to a quarter claim no religious affiliation. According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, 70.6% of the adult population identified themselves as Christians, with 46.5% professing attendance at a variety of churches that could be considered Protestant, and 20.8% professing Catholic beliefs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_ ... ted_States

The British Social Attitudes survey asked the question "Do you regard yourself as belonging to any particular religion?" with 53% selecting 'no religion' in 2016.[39] The European Social Survey asked the question "Which religion or denomination do you belong to at present?" with 50.54% of respondents selecting 'no religion' in 2002 and 52.68% selecting 'no religion' in 2008.[40]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_ ... ed_Kingdom

In an optional question on the 2016 Census, 52.1% of the Australian population declared some variety of Christianity. Historically the percentage was far higher; now, the religious landscape of Australia is changing and diversifying.[1] In 2016, 30.1% of Australians stated "no religion" and a further 9.6% chose not to answer the question.[1] Other faiths include Muslims (2.6%), Buddhists (2.4%), Hindus (1.9%), Sikhs (0.5%), and Jews (0.4%).[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Australia
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Kuroneko wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2018 10:16 am
John Bingham wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2018 7:58 am
SmartAston Martin wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2018 11:21 pm You see America today? It's the direct result of expanding secularism and shrinking religion. Prove me wrong.
As far as I can see the USA is far more religious than most other western countries.
Seems to be.
The majority of U.S. adults self-identify as Christians, while close to a quarter claim no religious affiliation. According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, 70.6% of the adult population identified themselves as Christians, with 46.5% professing attendance at a variety of churches that could be considered Protestant, and 20.8% professing Catholic beliefs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_ ... ted_States

The British Social Attitudes survey asked the question "Do you regard yourself as belonging to any particular religion?" with 53% selecting 'no religion' in 2016.[39] The European Social Survey asked the question "Which religion or denomination do you belong to at present?" with 50.54% of respondents selecting 'no religion' in 2002 and 52.68% selecting 'no religion' in 2008.[40]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_ ... ed_Kingdom

In an optional question on the 2016 Census, 52.1% of the Australian population declared some variety of Christianity. Historically the percentage was far higher; now, the religious landscape of Australia is changing and diversifying.[1] In 2016, 30.1% of Australians stated "no religion" and a further 9.6% chose not to answer the question.[1] Other faiths include Muslims (2.6%), Buddhists (2.4%), Hindus (1.9%), Sikhs (0.5%), and Jews (0.4%).[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Australia
Naa Ireland is more religious :mrgreen:
"The predominant religion in the Republic of Ireland is Christianity, with the largest church being the Roman Catholic Church.

In the 2016 census, 78% (3.7 million) of the population identified as Catholic which 132,220 fewer than 5 years earlier in 2011 when the percentage stood at 84%.[1]

The next largest group after Catholic was "no religion". 10% of the population (468,421 people) had no religion or did not indicate a religious belief according to the census.[2] This was a 73.6% increase from 2011"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_ ... of_Ireland
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I think you missed my point. The **decline** of a formerly very religious country (frontiers and wars will do that to you),after the second major world war was over led to the decline we have today.

You can see the "snowball" effect that generation after generation led to.

Big Pharma found a pill and liberated, emancipated Americans felt much freedom and the two mixed. Children and whole alternative cultures spawned from the result (resulting in much creativity, true, but at some social cost).

Then their children and this new culture spawned the kids in the 70s, then them, cocaine and disco spawned the kids in the 90s, and then they made the Millennials we have today. Progressively weaker, and progressively more liberal, i.e., **less religious** from a great country with decades of decline.

One analogy is the allowance of kissing cousins to marry one another in Muslim countries. Too much of that leads to somewhat unstable leaders of families, sometimes even royalty, and the ensuing chaos and backstabbing is caused by that factor (perhaps with others), the intermarrying of cousins.

THE BLOODSTREAM GETS CONTAMINATED by drugs during conception and pregnancy and kissing cousins, there is no doubt. Takes a while to notice, but generational changes occur and a decline of civilization(s) occurs.

But, America was once strong as a bull, and it can take several generations to bring it down. So, I don't disagree the Heartland of America is mostly religious, but the coasts are not nearly as religious. And secularism has outmaneuvered religion by removing former religious symbols, and replacing them with secular symbols.

Secularism is very strong in government. You have politicians going for the Christian vote, but they are politicians – paid to lie and tell us all is good.

I'm all for a pluralistic society, but religion has been retreating for a long time, since the birth control pills in the 60s and qualuudes in the 70s.

There was no **immediate** need for religion, abstention from sex "wasn't required," people could live without and live love-torn lives all they want. Look at a hardened Bangkok hooker for an extremely example of that.

Religion – "The opiate for the masses" – which actually improves bloodstreams – was replaced by morphine and now benzodiazapenes. Definitely a driving factor in the decline of our little Millennials.

Anyhow, religion is not for everyone, and is often difficult. It faces a constant battle against the animal drives within us, and is foreordained to face trials and tribulations until the Savior comes back, whenever that'll be.

But I do respect the philanthropy and healing of the social fabric they do everyday, and the vision of heaven sounds really nice.

Religion declining, New World Order stranger and stranger.
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Even then, don't come knocking...Not for ANY reason.
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"prove me wrong"
intellectual laziness at its finest

deflect, deflect, deflect 24/7
if youre so into your sky daddy keep him to yourself, others aren't interested in it or the vile story book of hate it comes with

prove the claim jesus existed.....
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