2 Timothy 3: 1-7
Posted on 02/16/2013 2:45:43 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
It just the latest infants learning to cuss to shock their elders fad.
Since atheism has no “there” there, this too shall pass.
About the only change here is that the atheists are getting better press releases. In typical secular universities, religious students have long been a small minority. Most students are less religious because they are too busy doing other things.
But just like few of the many students that binge drink in college become alcoholics, when students graduate, get married and have children, the atheism goes out the window and they return to their faith.
Importantly, students from conservative faiths are a lot more likely to return to their faith than are those from trendy liberal faiths.
anti-believers are not non-believers
These are not atheists or heather, these are haters. Desensitizing the country and ramping up the hate for believers. Just wait for the attacks to increase.
Call them haters at every given opportunity.
Invoke hate speech laws.
Your children’s lives will depend on it. Unless you want to be wiped out like jews in Europe
There are only good and evil people in this world. Good or evil is within the person, and it is found in both the religious and non religious believers. Whether the person worships a spiritual entity or not is not the way to judge them as a good or evil person. Every individual has a right to worship or not to worship, and be happy with the outcome whether it is a road to the land of milk and honey, 72 virgins or just lights out. Is life a rehearsal for something else or is it all you are going to get? (Rhet.)
“These are not atheists or heather, these are haters. Desensitizing the country and ramping up the hate for believers. Just wait for the attacks to increase.”
Yes. By the sounds of the article it is an organization targeting Christianity.
2 Timothy 3: 1-7
...“de-baptism” ceremonies...
That is something I have never even considered. Frightening from a Christian perspective. A literal in-your-face denial of your faith in the strongest terms possible.
This is not atheism.
If you do not believe in religion or in a god you do not need to “de-baptize” yourself or anyone else. However, if you DO believe in God and you specifically want to spit on Him then you might do something like this.
If you don’t believe, there is nothing to undo. So why?
The ramifications for the spiritual and mental health of these poor people is terrifying.
They might as well be specifically devil worshipping because they are not “abstaining” from belief they are assaulting and trying to “undo” it.
You didn’t quote enough of that, in my opinion.
These people make me sick. The whole idea of it all. Campaigning to coerce people into losing faith. What is the result of losing one’s faith, of becoming an atheist? Is your life improved? No. In fact, it become meaningless. Who would want to spread that? Sick people, that’s who.
When I was an undergraduate, the evangelical Christian movement had a much stronger presence on my college campus. Bookstores near campus sold Bibles and other Christian books, and there were more religious information group tables on the college plaza. These stores have today been replaced by those selling “sensual” goods such as you would expect to find at a wedding shower. The appeal is being made to the carnal desires of the young men and women, and to put a “religious” spin on it, “social justice” is invoked. It’s all counterfeit. There is nothing there to satisfy the true spiritual needs of young people.
These would be organizations which people join of their own free will?
Sounds like they have Religion Envy. lol
The Church thrives under adversity.
It is prosperity & good times we can’t stand.
I am not fearful of the future. God has, and always will, deliver His Church.
Be of good cheer my friend!
I am not fearful of the future. God has, and always will, deliver His Church.
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Like the Japanese Church?
Or most of the mideast churches that no longer exist?
or perhaps like the northafrican churches that are decimated?
Celebrating nothingness. Go figure.
I was also a doubter for what seemed like a long time, although I’d say I was agnostic during this period. Once I found God, faced the fact that I was a sinner, and accepted that the only thing that would save me was the sacrifice made by Jesus on the cross, my life improved dramatically. I know a few atheists, and they’re constantly miserable, bitter, and self-serving. Looking at this article, I’d say rot runs in its deepest form among the young. What’s being done at college campuses all over the country is truly diabolical.
**“de-baptism” ceremonies**
No such thing. Once a person is baptized — they are baptized.
In the Catholic Church a mark is left on the person’s soul. This also happens in the Sacraments of Confirmation and Holy Orders also.
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