While I agree that apostasy is rampant, it is important to remember that the decline in church numbers is also due to the false teachings that have invaded the pulpit. Many of us have turned to home meeting simply out of necessity because we could not go along with the ‘vision’ many churches have caught recently. The falling numbers are indicative of more than just a lack of conviction by the laity.

Excellent news! Perhaps a second Age of Enlightenment has arrived. And this time we can finally put religion behind us

Today,tragically, truth is like a vending machine, with choices available according to one’s mood or personal need. If you want power, you press A4 and the dispenser produces “The Secret.” If you want wealth, press A5 and the dispenser produce Scientology. If Discipleship is too difficult, press A6, and Nichiren Buddhism will show how good karma can insure successful reincarnation. If Christianity is your choice, choose from the menu to select the worship-style or denomination that will satisfy your personal needs. If you are not hungry, press the black button marked “nihilism.” There is only one Way,one Truth, one Life. Consumer Christianity is NOT the answer.

Some of you need to open up your eyes, Jesus is the only way to heaven, if you read the bible it says that these times will come and they are here, it’s not about religion it’s about a personal relationship with Christ.It’s your chioce, choose life(Jesus) and live.

Wow, some of these comments are pretty interesting. I would say that the first comment is probably right, our churches have been infiltrated by leftist liberal wolves in sheeps clothing, preaching that Jesus is NOT the only way to heaven (Rob Bell, Brian McClaren, etc) through the Emergent Church movement. Its a cult that looks so much like the real church that people are flocking to it, and I think these Christians who are growing up under that false teaching are skewing these numbers. I think they are real Christians, but have been fooled. Rob Bell and Brian McClaren are the biggest apostates of our time. WAKE UP AMERICA!

Trouble is, Lee Picton, there is nothing of substance worthy to replace Christianity. Islam is filling the vacuum. So is immorality. But I’m fairly certain those rooting for “the fall of religion” don’t accept the idea of morality to begin with. Get ready for anarchy and chaos in the coming decades. You’ll discover that our culture will come to miss the so-called “superstition and evil that is religion” that has served this nation well. Oh, I forgot. The anti-religionists probably don’t believe that our nation, our culture, our legal system, our success was well-served by religion. Oh well, I’m blowin’ in the wind again.

I understand that this decline is a sign of the times, but it’s the attitude from nonbelievers that angers me. When I was a child, it was strange for someone to say they “didn’t believe in God”, but we accepted the belief and went on as if it never happened. Nowadays, I feel like I have to bite my tongue around most people. Like, my belief in Jesus Christ and our eternal Father in Heaven is something to be ashamed of.

I can’t say one word about my religious beliefs without a bunch of trolls biting my head off and trying to correct me. I believe in God, and I will continue to do so for the rest of my days. No matter how advanced science progresses, I will always know that our discoveries are the unraveling of God’s work.

I don’t mind the non-believers thinking what they want to, I just hate when they shove their anti-God propaganda down my throat. It makes me sick. You have your belief and I have mine. So, with that being said, bring on the trolls.

The church in this country is weak and ineffective, it has no influence on the culture whatsoever. These modern evangelical churches are the worst. They have these nice big buildings and they all play this modern contemporary Christian music. Many of them even have coffee shops and book stores, it’s more like a business than a church. I like to call it “Jesus Incorporated.” All this jumping up and down and shouting halelujah business is a bunch of nonsense! And most of the people that attend these things have absolutuely no clue as to the founding of this country, they have no clue as to how government and economics works, they believe that it is an unrelated issue. They don’t teach that the Bible applies to all areas of life, nor do they seem to care. Where are the preachers blasting our corrupt politicians from the pulpit? They are nowhere to be found! And the reason for that is because they are a 501c3, a government registered church, they have sold out. They are too scared to speak the truth about what’s going on in this country because the IRS might come and shut them down, and they’d lose their tax-exempt status. In other words, they fear man instead of God. I have been involved with a church like this. I have tried to reach out and help others by getting involved in church groups only to be shunned at every turn. I have repeatedly tried to contact people in charge of these activities, but they don’t bother to even acknowledge my messages, it’s like I don’t exist! They’re just like the rest of the world, I’d rather hang around athiests and pagans, at least they make no pretense about things! The preachers back in the 17 and 1800s had a better understanding of the Bible than most preachers today do, the modern day ones don’t have a clue! I believe in God and the Bible, but this modern day religion crap sucks!

Dear Justin Case,

Your accusations against God, the Bible, and Christians are very serious and should be answered. I pray to the Lord that I can shed some light. Please bear with me.

You ask in the 1st paragraph “why our sins must be paid for” and why accepting Jesus as our payment is “more important” than good deeds; then pointing to some Christians’ hypocritical lives, you ask how it is fair that these people go to heaven while “better ones” don’t.

First, not all who claim to be Christians are true Christians, especially in latter days, in which the Bible predicted that many claiming acceptance of Christ are really wicked wolves who will fall away from Him when persecution comes. Yet second, true Christians still sin (the Bible says we have 2 natures warring within us – evil & good). So just considering our mixed deeds, do we deserve heaven while others don’t? NO! In fact, none deserve heaven – none are good, for all sin is rooted in rebellion against God, to live life as we want and not how our Maker wants and knows we should live.

You see, no matter how many times a driver obeys the law, if he speeds just once, he deserves a ticket. But our sins are worse than that. Why is it that killing a person is given a worse punishment than killing a flower? Because the person is much more valuable than a plant – he can think and make and love. But isn’t God infinitely more valuable than anything else – the Being and Source of infinite thought, creativity, love – eternally existing and ever-present across the universe? If shooting a person carries the price of death, then wouldn’t punishment for “shaking our fist” at God have a price of infinity?

How can God forgive a sin worse than murder? Not that He lacks power – but He is holy, just. To turn away His eyes from any sin would make Him like an all-powerful, corrupt sheriff – trashing justice. And we can’t tip the scales with good deeds, for who can equal an infinite price?

Only God. Because God is infinite in value, He alone can pay the infinite price. Yet He owes us nothing – He could have given all of us justice, eternal punishment to pay an infinite price. But NO! Our Creator of the galaxies and atoms and flowers humbled Himself and came down to earth embodying a human body. He is Jesus Christ, man and God united, without sin. And even before time’s beginning, He knew that He would die on the cross in our place, to pay in 1 day what we could never in an eternity of days.

For us who’ve believed and loved His unthinkable sacrifice, He already has wiped away our infinite debt, giving us His perfect goodness. Now His forgiveness won’t contradict justice. For on the cross, His mercy and justice are wedded forever. Praise His wisdom!

Dear Justin Case,

Last night I hoped I answered your first two questions, and now I hope I can answer your third. Please bear with me.

In the 3rd paragraph, you say that the Bible is full of contradictions and was written to regulate the masses and you also ask why the “gates of heaven” had to exist in the first place if Adam and Eve were immortal, so they wouldn’t ever come to heaven’s gates because they wouldn’t die.

I’m not sure what you mean by heaven’s gates existing before Adam sinned. Heaven doesn’t have literal gates – despite the popular (non-biblical) image of Peter holding the keys to this gate. If you mean that these gates represent the barrier keeping man from heaven, then they came into “existence” when Adam sinned, as God can’t forget justice by rewarding sinners with heaven. But God always knew that Adam and Eve would sin, for this was part of His plan to bring in Christ and the cross, a gift of infinite worth.

Then you claim that men, without inspiration from God, wrote the Bible to control others. Maybe the religious elite wanted to be self-righteous. But no! All over the Bible, all men are shown to have faults, to be weak & in need of God. In fact, those most likely to want to control others – kings, prophets, pharisees – often are recorded with the most warts. Even Biblical authors like Paul & Jonah recorded examples of their sins. Man’s snobbery would not write this – only God could be the ultimate Author of this Handbook for living.

And regarding Biblical “contradictions,” they’re resolved when men read the Bible in its narrative and historical context. Like Genesis 1 & 2. They’re complementary, not contradictory. 1 refers to the chronological creation of the universe, while 2 focuses on man’s creation. 2 can’t be a separate account, for it doesn’t explain the creation of the sun, moon, & stars, 3 things every Near Eastern creation account tried to explain.

Regarding the “different” chronology of animal creation, Genesis 2 just didn’t mention the animals until after they were relevant to man. Wayne Jackson in “Are There Two Creation Accounts in Genesis?” also notes this: “William Green pointed out that when noted scholar Franz Delitzsch (1813-1890), an advocate of the Documentary Hypothesis, first authored his famous commentary on Genesis, he employed this argument as a proof of a discrepancy between Genesis 1 and 2. However, in the last edition of his work, after his knowledge had matured, he repudiated this quibble and argued for the harmony of 2:19 with chapter 1 (Green, 1979, p. 26).”

Actually, the Bible is the BEST-evidenced ancient book. Time and again archeology has proven its events, places, and peoples accurate. And the evidence for Christ’s resurrection is skeptics’ worst hurdle – some, when they studied the evidence to disprove the resurrection, actually became believers and wrote whole books defending it (like Case for Christ & Resurrection Factor).

Because modern scholarship now must admit that the New Testament was written within the lifetime of Jesus’ & the Apostles’ generation, legends COULDN’T form, for all Christ’s still-living enemies would’ve shot Christianity dead for fabrication. Yet this tiny religion spread faster than fire even as thousands of converts were martyred. And the Apostles, though they had abandoned Jesus at His death, were the most transformed & fearless of all martyred preachers.

Why did they preach Christ risen to their deaths, without any gain in this world? Because they SAW Him risen with their own eyes. Unlike every other religious martyr in history, they didn’t die on faith, but SIGHT!

And because they knew and died on the certainty of Christ risen, so we in faith can live and die KNOWING we have the truth. And as more of God’s prophesies are fulfilled, revealing the coming of Antichrist’s persecution (before God’s righteous judgment), I pray He gives me & other Christians the strength to suffer and die for His name.

For yes, Christianity is declining. Not because it lacks evidence, for that evidence is multiplying; but because the pride of man has grown so great. With all our technology & knowledge, men ask, “Why must God tell us what to do? We are our own Masters!” We are like rebel children, running to the fire & mocking our Father’s warning, “It is bad! It will hurt you!” But we say, “No, it is pretty. I want the fire.” Can we blame Him then, when mankind has burnt itself?

Yet though God has foretold Christianity’s fall, yet He has promised to save a remnant. He will give us strength to endure war, famine, & martyrdom until He Himself comes in the clouds, saving us & battling the wicked until His kingdom of peace is established.

Please, Justin Case and all who’ve read this far, check out the evidence yourselves. Here are just a few places to start: In the Beginning by Brown, Resurrection Factor by McDowell, & 4truth.net. Absolutely nothing is more important than your relationship with the living God, who is Jesus Christ. I pray that He opens your heart to Him, to love Him as He first loved us.

The reason that Christianity is failing is simple. It’s the end of times. The whole Christian religion and the church system is going to fall. They are gonna be exposed for the satan worshippers that they are and people are going to run out by the millions preaching the Kingdom of Yeshua. As is is right now they are preaching the testimony of christ or the testiomony of the church. Those are not right. In the original bible, which was written in Hebrew, there was never a mention of any church, it was a tabernacle with a very different meaning, also christ was never in there either. Christ is not his name!!! If you are praying to Christ then you are praying to Satan! Everything that the churches are and stand for is of Satan. Please before you judge anything I say look it up and research for yourself. Train yourself to think and to have a mind of your own. Do not look only unto the King James Version of the bible or the “preacher”. The Jewish bible has it the closest. The King James Version is very different from the one it was translated from. Don’t take my word for it, look it up. Also remember you are perfect in every way. Do not let any “preacher” tell you otherwise. Yeshua does not make mistakes. The bible says we are born of his flesh and called by his name. We are made in his image. If that is not perfection I don’t know what is. Do not tell me I sin. Yeshua didn’t go through that pain for nothing. His blood washed it all away and his blood is alive and protects me now. If they told you that though you would have no reason to go to church to give them your money. The church doctrines started thousands of years ago and the same ones are in place today. Everyone of them are blinded and for some reason they cannot see the truth. In the church system you have everyone sitting in the congregation and one man standing above everyone and preaching at you. This is not how it should be!! Get a group of people together and discuss Yeshua with each other with all people sharing testimony and learning from each other. Usually when one person leads a group of people in such a way that the churches do it is often times considered a cult. Yeshua is finally starting to open peoples’ eyes and reveal himself. The end of time is near.

Jesus is the WAY, the TRUTH, & the LIFE. He is historically proven! He is not a made up figure. Jesus is the WAY, there is NO OTHER WAY! There is a DEVIL, the father of EVIL that is roaming around & tearing up the weak minded. If you think this is a joke, take a look around and see the evil around you. It is clear. God is real. God is the creator of this universe. Try to figure out how all this happened to be, and if you are wise about it, it will point to GOD! There is no other answer. God has made himself known in creation, but people by the droves are rejecting Him because they are being deceived by the Devil that he does not exist. But if you believe there is evil out there, you better believe there is an even greater force out there, and that comes from God! The King of kings, the Lord of lords.

Oprah Used To Go To Sunday School

“According to a stunning new survey by America’s Research Group, 95 percent of 20 to 29 year old evangelicals attended church regularly during their elementary and middle school years. However, only 55 percent of them attended church regularly during high school, and only 11 percent of them were still regularly attending church when in college… 46% of Americans between the ages of 18 to 34 indicated that they had no religion… According to the Barna Group and the United Methodist Church, 62 percent of Americans in that age group consider themselves to be “spiritual”, and 43 percent of them have prayed to some higher power in the last 2 months.
But what it does mean is that almost half of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 do not identify themselves with any particular religion.
And when you look at more recent poll numbers for Christianity in particular, the numbers become even more staggering.
Another new survey by the Barna group reveals that less than 1 percent of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 23 hold a Biblical worldview. This new poll data clearly demonstrates that the youngest adults in America are clearly rejecting traditional evangelical Christian teaching.
The Barna survey defined “a Biblical worldview” as holding all of the following six key beliefs:
Believing that absolute moral truth exists.
Believing that the Bible is completely accurate in all of the principles it teaches.
Believing that Satan is considered to be a real being or force, not merely symbolic.
Believing that a person cannot earn their way into Heaven by trying to be good or by doing good works.
Believing that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth.
Believing that God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the world who still rules the universe today.” http://signsofthelastdays.com/archives/the-decline-of-christianity-in-america”

Given the information above, I conclude there is a problem in the church that transcends anything we can imagine, and there’s no sidestepping the issue or ignoring its relevance to the future of the church as we know it. These facts are a ticking time bomb that will explode sometime in the next generation and result in even more dead churches and lost Kingdom opportunities.

It’s always been true that the college experience literally removes fledglings from the nests that long provided nurture and support and forces young people to try their wings. Given the “progressive” nature of most higher institutional educators, traditional values are challenged, at best, and ridiculed at worst. But, to be fair, isn’t college supposed to expose new world views and encourage eager young minds to consider alternative intellectual and spiritual options to their previously guarded existence’s?

It’s almost as if higher education says, “Okay. Your parents have had you long enough. Now it’s our turn to mold your mind toward a better, more enlightened view of the world.”

Unfortunately, they may be right. The traditional views and values held by mainstream Christian denominations don’t cut it with young adults. In fact, the continual decline in church identification and involvement outlined above suggests traditional “Church values” don’t cut it with adults either.

One conservative reaction to such volatile rhetoric (not to mention the factual realities) is to assume that the current generation of parents and offsprings have simply “wandered away from the truth … which, by the way, we still posses.” To fall for such logic, however, suggests that what’s needed is a good dose of the old time religion. Or, for people to get saved and find Jesus as their personal savior.

Unfortunately, that school of thought which prevailed for centuries rests on a cracked foundation that’s crumbling under the pressure of the new reality. Getting saved use to be the panacea for all personal and social maladies. Unfortunately, people no longer see their condition as a malady, but instead prefer freedom of spirit to just be acceptably spiritual without being a Christian.
It’s no longer a virtue to be called a Christian. In fact, it’s a liability when dealing with the hoards of people who leave the church because it, or the God it peddles, has failed to live up to it’s billing.

I suggest there are a number of related primary reasons why people jettison the Christian faith system as they are doing around the world. And, none of my list has to do with their personal immorality or lack of spiritual awareness. Here’s may take on what they may be:

The foundational issue, from which all the others flow is this: The rhetoric of Christianity doesn’t jibe with reality. For example, saints say many things about God’s love, yet for most people on this earth, life really sucks.The experience of trying to get through the day, much less the year, suggests that God isn’t all He’s cracked up to be, and He’s certainly not as loving or personal as gushing church ladies claim He is to them. He’s remote, silent and distant – at best – and destructive, hateful and mean-spirited at worst. Read the Bible if you don’t believe that.
Most church goers were raised to believe what the pastor or the denomination said it true. Therefore, the initial exposure to church tradition is given to children, usually in sunday school. (Oprah used to go to sunday school in Mississippi.) And, despite all the talk about Christian’s being loving people and the church a safe place, individuals, congregations, and denominations bicker all the way to heaven. And worse, pastors and priests have regular morality break downs as they lead their flocks to the promised land. The average, unversed, believer blindly follows their denomination’s intellectual champions, most of whom lived in the middle ages, or earlier. To question established church doctrine usually creates looks of fear or anger, and the status of the seeker’s eternal soul is placed in doubt. “You must obey the home office if you want to continue to be part of this loving circle of believers.”
The scripture is possibly the primary source of the disenfranchisement of one-time Sunday School children. The fundamentalist is adamant that any who don’t believe the Bible comes directly from God’s lips to man’s ears is ostracized, if not worse. The other view of the Bible that it’s man’s attempt to explain, experience and define God, simply blows the “spiritual chaff” out the church’s back door. The studies show that viewing the Bible through the first lens repels people away from the church and ubiquitous dogma defines Christian faith and practice, mostly because the church lady can’t explain away the problems the Bible creates. So people leave. Rigid views no longer represent the truth, nor are they the best way to keep the pews full of eager worshippers.
There are serious contradictions in what people intuitively feel is right. Dark, heavy lines divide Christians among themselves, and from society. Confusing social issues such as abortion, homosexuality, the role of women both in the church and in the market place and the very nature of truth itself (Jesus) are too easily addressed by much of the church. “Why do Christians make everything into black and white issues?” That used to work, but it doesn’t now. Thinking and individual experience trumps the one time virtue of being absolutely sure that your way is the only way.
The language of the church is confusing, if not misleading. Therefore people want to go where others speak plainly and honestly, not according to an unseen approved script passed down from headquarters or heaven. When marginal believers – or restless unsettled individuals – encounter words like: “God told me … What is God saying to you?” or the classic, “Jesus is my personal savior and my best friend”, the back door can’t be close enough.

I don’t know what the answer is, but I suspect it’s found dwelling within the confines of the following divine traits:
Truth
Honesty
Relevance
Tolerance
Charity

When Christians turn their faith into a system, it fails to attract people to the Light. In fact, it drives them away to lesser lights. This is a post- modern age full of people who no longer believe they have to toe the line and believe or behave according someone’s clearly failing principles.

Today, to reach people for Christ, something has to change. Specifically, He must be lifted up and made relevant. It takes personal discipline and dedication to relate to HIm, however, and nothing else – not the Bible, the church, its traditions or other Christian dogma can take His place. He said if He was lifted up He would do the heavy lifting of drawing all people to Him.
So, showing up and sitting thorough worship, even participating in it, isn’t enough to lift Him high enough for someone outside the chapel walls to see who He is.

Faith must first be personal, flexible and somehow made valuable enough to pursue it as Jesus suggested His followers ought to. Right now, the demographics of the crumbling church prove it’s currently not any of those qualities for millions of fleeing potential saints.

The Lord said He would build His church and not even the power of Hell can stand against it, but fortunately, this isn’t a pitched battle between believers and Beelzebub just yet. It’s more of a battle between comfortable good and uncomfortable best. Unfortunately, it seems the church has settled for good because the price of best is too high to pay.

How can religious People continue to believe that Christianity make people moral. Christianity it responsible for the genocide of millions of people, many burned at the stake. Christianity was founded by pedophiles and has been a haven for them for 2000 years. The following study by the federal bureau of prisons, might surprise the people who claim that religious people have greater morals as 80% of inmates are Christians, while they account for less than 50% of the population, where as atheist account for 0.2 percent of inmates yet make ip 16% of the population. Here is the link: http://www.holysmoke.org/icr-pri.htm
Also pew research recently published a study that shows that of all the groups athiest were the most knowledgable of religions. You can google for that or. Go to peweesearch.com

This is Due to the fact that lies, and pseudo sciences cannot exist on a public forum i chat often in a room where people of all faiths and freethinkers, come to debate, and it is always one sided. there are more christians in the room but each logical and philosophical stance they make is dismantled.
Why?
Because your religion and god are used to validate hate and only propagate through fear and doubt, no wonder you are setting your sights on africa.

It is written ” Let no man deceive you for the Day of Christ shall not come except there come a falling away first, and then the man of sin (Antichrist of antichrists) shall be revealed, the son of perdiction” 2Thess Ch 2:3. Yes, they will come a time when the majority of it’s members faith in Christianity falls away the gospel of Christ as it has been preached per the Word. And a new “something” will come from a new “personality” who will give to the world all the sweet things they want to hear and believe. God already knew the christian institution would run it’s course or shall we say fail him. That why this verse is in His word well in advance. God prophetic word lives today…still!!

Another indication is Israel’s return as a nation…what a coincidence in timing!! The churches stumble…now the season is ripe for Israel’s redemption or shall we say their Messiah to come….At Last! Such a reality is also in the Bible….only in the Bible and with each passing day the reality of God’s prophetic word is being seen by faith!! Perhaps, those who choose unbelief will see things by sight…such is the message of the Book of Revelations. Grace will still be in operation but the rules of engagement are very different for those who see at last!!

People are leaving in droves because they are finally being given the chance to question their beliefs. If you did that a hundred years ago, you could die to an angry mob, suffer social ostracism, or worse. The only thing that really kept people following such doctrines were threats to their life and well-being. Not only this, but their teachings are based on perpetuating a kind of ignorance by trapping them in a bubble of fear. If you question God, then you will burn in hellfire. Critically thinking about a belief requires a temporary suspension of it, which their doctrine is designed to inhibit. Because critical thinking is important to the modern world, it is impossible for a religion that relies on such induced stupor to last, and rightly so. We are far better without it. I say good riddance.

why should we think to pray when MILLIONS of jews who lived a more “holy” life than any of us were slaughtered in gas chambers, concentration camps, etc, etc, while praying for their lives?

Jesus was a stand up dude, you people with your fail religions ruined his good name.

The idea of a heaven isn’t paradise to me. I don’t want heaven, nor do i want hell. Your god created hell, and he admits to doing all the evils of the world. The number one thing that de-converts people to christianity is actually reading the bible. Most christians have never read the entire bible or studied all of it before selling their souls to superstition and lies. I don’t need a god threatening me to hell to be a good person, no one does. And be realistic here, people…when you take polls and someone says they are a chrisitan, we know they are not… there’s a lot more to being a christian than just slapping a label on your forehead. Most christians aren’t christian like at all. Love is key, not scripture, not a book written by women hating men, realise this and be free from guilt that plagues mankind. I love you all and i hope you all realize there’s more to life than fear and preaching from a book you don’t understand.

“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever; That a revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by Supernatural influence! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in that event.”
–Thomas JEfferson
–Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237.

I see many people leaving “the church” for many reasons.

It has deceived many, because they are nothing but corporations. What is 50c3?

False sabbath day worship. True Sabbath = Saturday

The bend for FEMA. Remember, Hitler also loved Romans 13.

so…46% of Americans don’t have faith?

Good on them…shows that they have brains and are willing to use them

I find it rather disturbing but in do time things will change. America has become too materialistic, what is there to hold us together if not our faith? This is how Rome became an Empire. By abandoning what made it great and abandoning its faith and I fear we are following in their footsteps. Again, I do believe that this will be reversed. Yes we know Rome fell because of external conflicts such as the military being too far stretched, invaders from all sides. But they also fell because of internal problems such as crippling debt. Rome fell because the people fell to secularism and materialism. America can’t do the same.

There was a time when christianity ruled all of Europe – it was known as the dark ages. People proclaim the virtue of faith, like that is a good thing. All it does is shut off critical thinking. Religion poisons everything and when its cold dead hand is finally thrown off, we will all be the better for it.

This is wonderful news! After generations of people abusing each other with messed up cult of a religion its finally starting to end:). I hope to live long enough to see many churches (particularly the evangelical brand) abandoned due to a lack of followers.

I think the church has done its ownself in. I use to attend church and read my bible. I got tired of seeing how racially segragated churches are compared to the rest of the world. I could not reconcile all the hate you hear coming out of the mouths of evanglical christains. Finally I read my bible not 1 time but several and the more I read it the more I can to the same uderstanding as others who have commented here that maybe this book is not all that it claims to be. Jesus said no man comes to the father except through him. He also said ask anything in his name and he would do it and we all know that is not true, so what makes anything else he said anymore reliable?

This news is inspiring, there is a chance for the world yet to be rid of the absolute insanity that has threatened it’s very existence–the church, just one of the insidious religions stemming from Abraham.

hopefully the jews and muslims will also shrink in numbers and we can live without the tyranny they have wrought on us for thousands of years.

It can’t happen soon enough.

You do realize that young minds are thinking about science right? They want to explore their world. When a young mind thinks, it realizes that the bible is wrong. The only reason you and other Christians can’t accept reality is that it has become engrained in your mind. Religion is dying because science is proving more and more things in the bible wrong. Eventually, religions will die out when people overall realize that it is bogus.

Some things never change though (like your thought process). Hitler was a believer in Christianity and was FULLY BACKED AND SUPPORTED by Rome and the current pope.

Atheists (and humans in general) derive morals from what is accepted by society. Morality in general comes from the golden rule, but also from that we are social animals who would rather work together and thrive than kill, steal, and rape each other. We don’t want to live in fear from each other. By working together, we can do greater things (pyramids, space stations).

Evolution is not a religion. It is a natural process by which organisms adapt to their environment. It is an on going process. If an environment changes too wildly, many organisms die out (dinosaurs). We didn’t evolve from monkeys. We share a common ancestor. Humans and modern apes evolved differently which produced two very different organisms.

Also, the whole DNA with a chance of 10 to the 117,000 power? The earth has been around for billions of years. That is a lot of time, and if you have that long, eventually it will happen. The chances are poor of flipping one million coins with all heads coming up. But if you have enough time and keep trying, eventually it will happen and you would get one million heads.

I laugh hysterically when the claim ” It’s sound scientifically, historically”. Science has bashed religion constantly. Did you know that modern medicines such as penicillin are created using ideas such as evolution? The church has condemned such ideas as the earth not being the center of the universe. Do you believe that too? I hope you are old. That way you won’t poison the world much longer.

Looks like education is working. Slowly though. There are people still holding on to certain bits out of fear and/or habit, comfort, tradition, symbolism, etc. But how many firmly held supernatural beliefs have to be turned on their head by critical thought and experimentation before we say, “okay, we messed up by investing ourselves in completely unfounded beliefs in the supernatural; we invested our entire beings in a rediculous fairy tale for centuries only to find that it cannot possibly be true. Its not a total loss, because the “holy books” we wrote include beautiful illustrations of our philosophies about how we should treat people, ourselves, the earth, etc. (the selected collection of writings we call the bible didn’t create those philosophies, as history shows; the man we call Jesus who may or may not have existed was of course not the first to have the idea that we should “treat our neighbor as we treat ourselves”). So, lets take the rediculous parts, the physically impossible parts, the racist parts, the exclusionist parts and, YES, throw them in the dumpster. And lets start over, beginning with what we KNOW, and lets continue to question what we know, experiment, adjust philosophies and science as new evidence begins to reveal we were wrong about something. For centuries, we would claim we knew the absolute truth about a thing until the evidence piled up so high that it was screaming in our faces – then we would grudgingly, and only slightly, change our religous beliefs and interpretations of holy books to make them fit with what experience and logic and science had undeniably demonstrated (e.g. World is flat, Earth is center of universe, creation story, evolution, etc.). Then we would claim that new interpretation was the absolute truth and ignore the inconsistency of the fact that we had previously claimed something else was absolute truth.” When do we say, “We’re not gonna do that anymore because it doesn’t make sense.” Well, it looks like that is what is happening. It can’t happen all at once because we don’t all share one consciousness; we are not all realizing the same things at the same time. But when I realize something, I talk about it, and act on it. And because we have evolved to the point of living in highy developed communities, all my neighbors are exposed to my adopted and adjusted ideas and theories – and because of how advanced technology is, there is plenty of information avilable for everybody to test their new ideas and decide what the more reliable and consistent theories are. And there are universities for them to cut their teeth on, and really have their ideas challenged, allowing them to realize more things and change more. The trend is a positive one for us. Eventually, people will give up the idea of a God as being just as rediculous as the idea that the world is flat, or that all the things on earth just appeared a few thousand years ago and man was shaped out of clay by a giant man-like being in the sky. And then what do we have left to fight over? Ah yes, oil and water…but at least we’ll have one less thing. Don’t waste your energy rebutting me here because I won’t be back. Spend that energy doing some critical thinking. Since it looks like this is a christian website, I’ll explain what that is for you: it is OBJECTIVELY analyzing something using all relevant information available. Stop ignoring all the greatly reliable knowledge out there because it is what will really set you/us free. Stop believing whatever your emotions or your first intuition tell you, because our emotions, by definition, are stupid. There is nothing sacred or noble about unquestioning faith. It is only irresponsible, lazy, and gluttonous. We have begun (in the last 1000 years) to shift the focus of our energies to places that need it, like medicine and science and forward thinking philosophies. Don’t turn your back on that progress; don’t be an ostrich. Reject what doesn’t make sense and the people who push it; speak out against them; question them to their faces; make them explain the things that don’t make sense; ask the tough questions, and don’t be shy or embarassed about it – but also don’t be mean or angry about it or make fool of them in public, because we all made the same mistakes, but we’re learning. Embarassing people in public will just make them run back to their church for comfort; for someone to tell them they are right and that other person was wrong. Lets all keep learning together – not try our best to forget or ignore what we’re learning, as this article suggests.

Christianity has caused an amazing amount lot of suffering (inquisition, burning millions of people at the stake, etc.) and wars (20 or more crusades), all in Jesus’ name. Shame! Jesus is know as ‘the prince of peace’. He taught non-violence (turn the other cheek, resist not evil, even ‘love your enemies’). How could the church practice the opposite of the one its church is founded upon? If they couldn’t get Jesus’ basic message right after almost 2000 years, how can they get anything right? Clearly the church has never been worthy of belief in anything they say. The only way they could keep the flocks together for so long was through persecution, fear, and guilt. They can’t do it anymore because of laws and because of the internet. Thank God.

To Steve@ To all you Christians that are now complaining that atheists and scientists are shoveing their beliefs down your throats, what the hell do you think you have been doing to non-believers since the Mayflower landed? I still have people knocking on my door every sat or sunday telling me about something I probably know more about then they do since my parents shoveled it down my throat all of my life until I said NO MORE. How does it feel to get a taste of your own medicine??

How can you say Jesus is the only way to heaven. There are religions way older then Christianity. As far as religions go, Christianity and Moslems are very new on the market.

You do not even know WHO wrote the bible yet you belive every word of it. At the beginning of every book and chapter in any version of the bible is a disclaimer that you, they or who ever wrote that particular bible states that they assume so and so wrote it. Out of all the books attributed to Paul only 6 or 7 have now been authenticated and the rest are forgeries, claimed to be written by Paul but have been proven frauds. This is by your own biblical theologians. Who wrote Hebrews?? No one knows. So how can you even say that Jesus even said the words that through him was the only way. Where was he when human were coming out of the trees and forming societies. When they were becoming Homo Sapiens?? Were was he then??

I believe Jesus was a man, but just a man. I believe that he tried to send a message of unconditional to everyone. That all men are brothers and created equal in god’s eyes. Yet the Christians I have been raised with and forced to be around had no love in their heart for anyone but themselves and the people who where just like them. They were judgemental, had superior attitudes, as if they were better then anyone else. They hated gays and lesbians. They tried everyday to stop a womans right to have an abortion. That’s unconditional love?? If you are so worried about the children then why not try to help the ones that are already here instead of standing in front of abortion clinics makeing a already difficult decision worse instead of supporting a woman’s decision and be their to give her some of that uncontitional love that Christians are so well known for. You do not know this person, you do not know why she made this decision, you do not know any of the reasons she choose to terminate her pregnancy. What she needs at this time in her life instead of yelling Baby Killer at her, I’m sure that makes God so proud of you, is love and support with no questions asked.

Non judgemental Christians. I can honestly say I have never met one!!!

Why My Walk With God Was Pathetic!

When you witness evil and do naught, the devil knows your soul can be bought!
And if your soul can be bought, your entire life is for naught!

My wife and I were having a conversation with some friends recently at a bible study and we were discussing our relationship with God. We have been saved Christians for a long time but we all came to the same disappointing conclusion. Our relationship with God was not where it needed to be, was not where we wanted it to be and it certainly was not where it should be. In other words our relationship with God was lacking in many, many ways and nobody really had a definitive answer. If anyone had any thoughts no one spoke up. The age group of the people in this discussion range from mid fifties to mid seventies. One of the people attending the bible study made an out of the blue and alarming comment. This person said they found the bible study boring! My first reaction after that comment was is this person serious, I was stunned!

However on the way home that evening I thought about this and by the time I got home, I said to myself, this person was right. We are reading the word of God, discussing the word of God and yet the word that should be alive dancing in our hearts and minds was not! How could this be, how this was possible. Then something struck me to the most inner core of my being. We are reading verse after verse but ashamedly we are not living many of them therefore we are what I call fringe Christians. Now a fringe Christian is most likely a saved Christian going to Heaven but a fringe Christian is not experiencing the full intensity of God! This really has troubled me so what you are about to read is what I discovered in my own life after I took a long, long, long hard look in the mirror.

What I am going to share is what I found out and most are not going to like my findings or suggestions. I found three negatives in my own life and if they stand out in your life I pray this helps. My prayer life sucked, I spent too little time studying God’s word and one I already knew but lived in denial of, being part of the absolute corrupt pleasures of this world by not dealing with certain sin in my life! A Christian has to live in this world but a Christian does not have to be part of the world. Since we can’t leave this world until God is ready we must learn to live above the vileness. This is the part most Christians including myself have great difficulty with. I have no one to blame but myself but part of the responsibility also falls on the church. There are too many lukewarm Christians that are neither cold nor hot attending scores of churches that are nothing more than Sunday morning dead bone make me feel good centers.

However, blaming the church is not an acceptable excuse for Christians following the corruption of the world. Christians fail miserably because they lose focus and become blind forgetting the world and the Christian can in no way co-exist. Here is what this whole thing boils down to; God is only alive when Christians put the world to death! This deserves repeating, God is only alive when Christians put the world to death! We cannot, we must not ever put the world before God but Christians do it all the time and do you know how we do it, we cheat ourselves out of God’s blessings by wasting our time on indulgence of this world! Consider only your leisure time because time will vary with those who work, raising a family and those retired. Okay here comes the first lightning strike; what ever time you spend on leisure give God the exact same amount of time. Second lightning strike, even if you do you are still in the world half the time! Third lightning strike and this is the tough one, eventually all your leisure time must be devoted to God! Christians can never live side by side with the world and expect to be righteous. If you do not spend more time with God the world will eventually take over all your time and if you doubt here is the proof; this nation is it more moral or immoral?

We all know the answer yet do little to rectify what we know to be right. Then on top of all this we want God to solve all our problems cure all our ills and when our lives get into chaos we then and only then cry out to God for instant help. How can we even think like this when we continually disobey Him? Now here is a word we don’t often hear, obedience! The reason we don’t hear it often is simple, nobody likes to obey anything. Well I am going to tell you something flat out and you better get it through your head. Until we obey God, submit to God and put our entire reliance in God we will always just be fringe Christians. I want you to remember something, I am not just writing this to you, I am writing it to remind myself because the more I write the more I know I will be rereading this repeatedly.

I pray you have the courage to read on and if you do you are going to have to face up to some things you may have never faced up to in your entire life. You either have more of the world in you or you have more of God in you. When you finish this you will know without any doubt! We need to all grasp something of which many churches have become lax about and some are afraid to teach! The Word of God has no middle ground, it cannot be compromised it cannot be diluted; it means what it says and has never changed and never will. I am going to say some things you are not going to like and if you think I am wrong at least have the courage to tell me! If you do challenge me please back up your challenge with the word of God!

Let there be no doubt, Satan is in charge of this world and to deny that fact makes you delusional living in a land of secular political correct claptrap. Everything that is not of God is of Satan. This needs repeating, everything that is not of God is of Satan! When you finish reading this and it turns out you have more of the world in you than God, are a regular church attendee Christian and shocked to learn this it is time to take action. So what is a Christian to do? Here is the part you are really not going to like. If your church is not teaching this I would ask your pastor why he does not. If he cannot explain in simple terms why they do not I would find another church that does and do not be surprised if you can’t find one. And what should they be teaching; God is only alive when Christians put the world to death! So, how do we do this?

1 John 2 15-16 17 NKJV: Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

The following are the same verses with a little different twist.

1 John 2 15-16 17 The Message: Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all it’s wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.

Let’s expand this one a little. “Don’t love the world’s ways.” This is pretty simple, if you truly examine the ways of the world you know they all conflict with word of God. Can you give one example of the traditions of the world that are in perfect harmony with the word of God? “Don’t love the world’s goods.” In the industrialized world material goods are nothing more than a diversion by the devil. The sheer magnitude and variety keeps us wanting more and more. “Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father.” How about we say it this way, Love for the Father squeezes out love of the world. Christians this says it all, stop trying to have it both ways! Most Christians have read these verses a bazillion times but I doubt anyone has ever asked you to do what I am going to ask you to do. As I said, most are not going to like this but I do not write to make you feel good, I write to stimulate thought to prayerfully change hearts so we may become strong Christians. A weak Christian rarely brings anyone to Christ!

Everything and I mean everything in this world that is not of God is under the authority of the devil! He works tirelessly by every evil means to cheat you out of what God has for you. What do I mean give up everything of this world that is not of God? Exactly what it says God is only alive when Christians put the world to death! Let me make it crystal clear. If you want more of God in your life this is the price you must pay. Have I totally given up everything of the world, God I wish the answer were yes but know I make progress each and every day! Everything you do that is not of God separates you from God. Most people are completely consumed by the false pleasures and treasures of this world never understanding how it blots out all God have for you.

We must admit to ourselves; are we guilty of any of the following? We must be honest with ourselves and examine each one to see if any influence our lives. The World will never admit to these because they are precisely what the world bows down and worships each and every day.

Pride is an excessive belief in one’s own abilities.

Envy wants what others have, be it status, abilities, or possessions.

Gluttony is the desire to eat or consume more than you require.

Lust is a powerful craving for such as sex, power and money.

Anger is the loss of rational self-control and the desire to harm others.

Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain.

Sloth is laziness and the avoidance of work.

At this point you have an important decision to make. It is a decision that should be a no brainer but unfortunately many will make the wrong choice. Do you want more of God in your life or do you want more of the world in your life? You can’t have it both ways! This is my concern with the church. The church tries to maintain a balance of living partly in the world and partly of God and they have failed at it miserably. It cannot be done but the conventional wisdom of the day continues to pursue the wide road to destruction ignoring the obvious. If the church were successful this nation would be far more moral than immoral. If the church taught in earnest God is only alive when Christians put the world to death their attendance numbers would drop. Most pastors mistakenly think a drop in attendance would be the end of the world when in reality it would be a blessing. This is my analogy, a God fearing church congregation swept into Heaven numbering little sure beats a large mega dead bones church swept into hell. The average church figures if they can keep the people coming back they may be able to reach them sooner or later with softball teaching. Nothing could be further from the truth because the weak are anchored to the world. Until the anchor chain is severed by the Holy Sprit the church is just playing church. The proof again is simple; is our culture more moral or immoral? If you say immoral than what the church does is not working and if you say moral, you know you have more of the world in you than God in you! Could it be any simpler than this?

Giving up the world is for most going to be awfully difficult. We will never succeed without the help of God, a consistent prayer life; reading the word every day and a church not afraid to preach the unwavering word even if it means their attendance drops. Oh I can hear the outcries now but until we do these things we will never have a true relation or reverence for God the way we should! Remember God said He is a jealous God; 2 Corinthians 11:2 (NKJV) For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. Do you know what God is saying here? He wants us for himself! Try and let this sink in, I AM, the Living God who spoke the universe into existence wants YOU for Himself. If this does not have you on your knees crying out to God I do not know what will! We are dim-witted dolts to think anything in this world is worth going to hell for when God freely gives us eternal life to live with Him! If you feel any other way there certainly is more world in you!

Romans, 12:2 (The Message Version)
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—you’re sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what He wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Romans 12:2 (Easy-to-Read Version (ERV) Don’t change yourselves to be like the people of this world, but let God change you inside with a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to understand and accept what God wants for you. You will be able to know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect.

Romans, 12:2 (NKJV) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

I don’t remember anyone ever telling me following Jesus Christ was going to be easy so let’s get right to the point. Romans, 12:2 (NKJV) And do not be conformed to this world, OK, so what does this mean, (do not be conformed to this world.) Very plainly for now we live in the world but are to have nothing to do (other than nature) with anything this world offers or admires. Can you name one thing this world offers or admires (other than nature) that is of benefit to your spiritual growth? When it comes right down to it everything the world offers or admires hinders your spiritual growth! This is a hard teaching but I do not know any other way to put it. Time is what most Christians waste and if the majority of our time is not devotion to God then we become more conformed to this world. We were not created to relish in the pleasures and treasures of this world, we were created to worship the living God and to prepare ourselves to be with Him for an eternity. Once we become Christians does not mean we board the cruise ship saved to float around above the wickedness of this world waiting for Jesus to return. What it does mean is we are now to join the battle empowered by the Holy Spirit to confront evil that no longer has any power over us so we may bring others to Jesus Christ. That is our command from God! As for me I write thought provoking letters like this one getting them out anyway I can mostly by email and my blog Enrage The Devil. My biggest frustration is very few respond to what I write and I have sent out thousands. I can’t even get anyone disagreeing with me so I guess maybe the truth hurts. What truly breaks my heart is no one has ever asked what they can do to help me.

But be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Ok, so what does this mean? Very plainly you are to fill you mind with things of God and not of this world. Will our mind be renewed by the cesspool the world offers from Hollywood and its godless clueless celebrities? Will our mind be renewed by the cesspool the world offers from the music industry? Will our mind be renewed by the cesspool the world offers with all the modern electronics and social media? Will our mind be renewed by the magazines at the supermarket check out? Do you not understand everything is designed by Satan to take up your time so you will have no time to spend with God? There is but only one way to renew you mind; you must spend more time with God than you spend with the world. When you come to the realization everything in this world not of God steals your time away from God. Worldly indulgence is nothing more than a distraction of the devil to keep your eyes off God. Why is this so hard for people to understand and why this is so hard for the church to understand? Now I am going to really get in your face. Most people and the church do understand but are unwilling to make the necessary sacrifices because they fear man more than God! You must carefully and consciously only allow yourself to be influenced by God. All other influence is from hell!

Is it possible to love God and the world at the same time? In plain language NO! If you think you can you would be dead wrong. Our sanctimonious culture should be ashamed but they are not. Many Christians are able to attend church on Sunday morning attend a R rated movie in the afternoon go to dinner at Hooters for dinner come home and watch Sex In The City and then the next day tell everyone what a great weekend they had ignoring the obvious. Are we insane, no just dim-witted dolts? Now you know what I mean when I say, where is the leadership especially leadership with courage? Instead we have scoundrel politicians and timid church leaders hiding under secular political correctness. I bet you didn’t know this but God is as politically correct as they come, you can read all about His political correctness from Genesis to Revelation.

Luke 10:27 (NKJV) So he answered and said, ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.” If we are commanded of God to love Him with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength and all our mind how could there possibly be anything left in our being for anything this world offers? This one verse stands alone leaving no doubt how we should conduct ourselves as Christians yet we fail miserably. We fail partly because the modern day church with its weakened theology under the guise of not wanting to offend anyone has been duped itself. If you have any doubts about weakened theology which does not get any weaker than this. Please read the following carefully. How could any church, religious denomination that uses the Holy Bible as a basis of their faith ordain homosexuals into the ministry? I don’t hate homosexuals, it is the sin I hate just as I hate sin in my own life.

The following is a piece I pulled off the internet. Will your mind be renewed by this cesspool or will it appeal to your immoral side? I no longer have any use for anything Hollywood cranks out and this piece is a perfect example of how the devil uses Hollywood for his diabolic schemes. I no longer go to movies and rarely watch any movies on television. When you read the following and you do not see much wrong with this you certainly have more of the world in you than God. “One of the films that made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival this week is “The Paperboy,” starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack, and Zac Efron. The film is based on Pete Dexter’s 1995 novel of the same name, and is about a reporter (McConaughey) investigating the wrongful conviction of a creepy inmate (Cusack). Kidman plays a woman who is super hot for Cusack’s character, while Efron plays McConaughey’s brother, and somewhere along the way, Efron’s character gets stung by a jelly fish and Kidman urinates on him. Apparently, the movie is getting panned by critics, but I think it sounds worth seeing for that scene alone. “This is a movie that often seems to be missing important transitional scenes or specific inserts,” wrote New York magazine’s Kyle Buchanan in his review, “but you had better believe that when Nicole Kidman pees on Zac Efron, that camera is there.” Also: “Yes, you get a close-up of the stream.” Great.” Pretty disgusting is it not yet millions will go to see this movie and among these millions will be millions of Christians.

Wow I just received a message from someone after sending out one of my letters to about 175 Moose members of which I am one. This was his response. (“Please don’t use the LOOM email list to spread your misguided, false propaganda. It’s disrespectful to the Moose, these emails were not given to you personally, so don’t use them for your personal nonsense.”) My response to him was as follows, (“Since you decided to accuse me of being misguided, spreading false propaganda I respectively request you specifically back up your accusations of how I am misguided and what is false about what I have written. What is it in particular that seems to have bothered you? You further stated I was disrespectful to the Moose for using the email addresses for personal nonsense. You may rest assured sir, I am not disrespectful and I certainly never write nonsense. If the message offends you, I make no apology. From the sounds of your comments it seems I may have hit a nerve and my prayer is it will open your eyes. From a Christian perspective, I have spoken absolute truth and will use every means at my disposal to bring the saving grace of Jesus Christ to a dying world.”) FYI Just so you know, every email I receive I simply cut and paste the email addresses and use them as one avenue to send out my letters.

What are you doing to bring Jesus Christ to the lost? The least you could do is forward this! I pray you never learn Revelation 3:15-16 the hard way.

In His love,

Garry Ragone

Christian churches have being focusing more and more on topics instead of the Word (Bible) as a whole. We no longer study the books like Matthew and Romans but focus individually on topices. We no longer sing Psalms or songs that are in the Bible thinking that our songs are better than what is in the Bible. The topics are disjointed and people, especially children, are left trying to tie the strings of topics together. We need to fervantly focus on the Bible as a whole or else we will be unprepared for what’s coming. All (not some more than others) Scripture is breathed by God and is useful for…. WE NEED TO TEACH THE WHOLE BIBLE instead of convenient topics!!

Most of what you said is wrong, especially about science.

Hitler was Catholic, and while Stalin and Mao were atheists, they did not kill in the name of atheism, but for power. The inquisition, the crusades, the Salem witch trials, etc were done explicitly in the name of god. It is good to get your history knowledge from places other than christian apologetic websites.

The bible is not the most reliable writing we have today, it is a book of parables from desert dwelling nomads in the bronze age.

We base our morals on the same thing everyone else does, a reasoned and agreed upon social morality.

We do not have a purpose here except that which we make for ourselves.

The field of genetics PROVES that evolution occurred and confirms many of the predictions made by Darwin and others.