This delusion that some Christians really think they're going to Heaven...I think some of y'all suffer from Christian dyslexia because I've read some scriptures and trying to figure out, how yall came to that conclusion. Enlighten me, please!
@ChocoKing305 Read the scriptures.I suggest the Gospels. Ask God to cause you to understand them.. Salvation is easy when it is a gift from the LORD Jesus.
@Adstar a gift! All that you need to do is accept and receive it. Jesus Christ, the God Man, fully God and Fully Man, has paid that blood atonement that is needed before a holy and Righteous God.
“Just look at us. Everything is backwards, everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality and governments destroy freedom.” -Michael Ellner-
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." -Ronald Reagan-
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@therighttothink50 I was actually thinking about that first quote while I was writing this.
Christians believe in the beginning, God Atheists believe in the beginning, Dirt
Big Bang theory/Evolution
Once upon a time, long ago, and far away, literally nothing exploded for no reason and created the universe; then on some random, conveniently placed ball of rock, it rained on some dirt and created "primordial soup", then proteins and complex dna magically appeared in this muddy water, turned into slime, washed up on a beach somewhere, grew arms and legs, became sentient, then "evolved" into a human. Of course, it's too whimsical and confusing to even try and simplify the "common ancestry" idea that goes along with evolution; that is to say, the belief that every living thing on this planet has a common ancestor (that a rock, a banana, a fish, and a human are all somehow related).
But basically, atheists/evolutionists believe they came from dirt that somehow procreated with itself...
Leftist technocratic marxist globalism is the greatest plague ever unleashed upon humanity. A tiny fringe of pseudo intellectual leftist misfits controlling food, energy and the medical industry. All coordinating in collusion to destroy the middle class and usher in a post human world where personal freedom and privacy become obsolete.
@Gloomy Left and Right also form a spectrum that varies from country to country, as well as defining them by ideologies.
That of the UK for example is somewhat to the left of the US spectrum but certainly far removed from the Communism many Americans might think it is; while Sweden is by no means Marxist despite very comprehensive welfare and social-support systems; and both the UK and Scandinavian countries have considerable employment-protection laws.
On the other hand, it is governments who privatise state-owned assets and industries; and in Britain, Tony Blair's and Gordon Brown's Labour governments were at least as enthusiastic about selling public services and utilities as the previous Conservative (right-wing) governments had been when they had embarked on the policy.
So as I think you suggest, nothing is as clear-cut as it may sometimes seem.
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@ArishMell The supposed rivalry between Marxist-inspired movements and capitalism has always been an illusion. Marxism, Communism and liberalism have been and continue to be exploited by the forces of international capitalism to further their global agenda, despite their surface disagreements. The ultimate goal of capitalism is to create a worldwide collectivist society of consumers, and Marxism is merely one means of attaining this.
@SW-User Yet all Marxist propaganda, and those states claiming to be run on Marxist lines, are very anti-capitalism, despite the rather dual system that is China's present economy.
Yes, Marxist economies do want "consumers", i.e. customers which is the term I prefer, just as much as capitalists do, because they need the money. The difference is that Marxists want the "means of production" to be state-controlled if not state -owned, and they used the word "collective" to mean that.
So "Collective consumers" would not make sense, but "collective producers", i.e, all part of State monopolies, does.
The USSR used to want world-wide Communism, not capitalism.
On the other hand, the "West", especially the USA, has encouraged vast corporations run by small groups of unreconstructed capitalists, in fully capitalist economies that cannot by any stretch of imagination be called Marxist or even particularly left-leaning.
In the Early Middle Ages, after the fall of the Roman Empire, people believed that humanity was degenerating, as they saw the Roman ruins and knew they could never create anything like that themselves. So your sentiment is nothing new.
In fact, society is improving. A greater percentage of the world's population is living in peace, more than at any time in history. The standard of living worldwide is improving. Religious participation is decreasing, especially in the developed world. The ability of people to communicate with each other and share ideas is at an unprecedented level. We are also just a few decades away from developing fusion power, which will provide a limitless source of energy.
@LeopoldBloom I think each generation looks at what is going wrong in the world and thinks it's in the worst state it's ever been.
Communications is proving something of a two-edged sword but the good might still out-balance the bad.
Standard of living - and of health.
Fusion power: limitless source of energy. Maybe, but that energy is released as heat and that can only be converted to electrical energy.
The aspect that seems to raise virtually no debate at all is not energy but materials - including those needed to build the fusion-powered, electricity-generating and distributing networks..
Whilst many materials, especially the metals and to a lesser extent glass, can be recovered for re-use (with some attrition all the time) may others cannot; and of these a lot are from fossil-mineral resources we will either exhaust or abandon. To be replaced by... what?
Tolerance is a blessing and morality is improving. We are living in a period of very little violence compared to our long history. We are learning to live people who are not like ourselves. Education, though under attack by religious and conservative groups, is still leagues better than it was fifty years ago.
Humanity is ever so slowly divorcing itself from the need to appeal to a fictional creator and we are all the better for it.
@LeopoldBloom Lol, man you're addicted to me. What do you do all day? I'm curious, becuase you seem to have a lot of free time.
I never worked at Hellywood. That was merely an internship during my college years, which was almost 10 years ago.
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@LeopoldBloom But instead of focusing on me and my past college years, you should be focusing on the fact that your life here is merely one dash between two dates and then you enter into eternity. You need to be saved, sir. One day you will stand before The Creator.
@SW-User I expect my fate after death will be similar to what happened before I was born - total, eternal oblivion. If you have proof of anything different outside of a bronze age storybook written by goatherds who didn't know where the sun went at night, please share it.
What's interesting is that despite your claim that your God is all-powerful, for some odd reason, he insists on sending the most arrogant and sanctimonious representatives to speak for him. If there is a God, he will hold people like you accountable for pushing more people away from him than you attract. Which is the point, I guess. You clearly derive much of your self-esteem by looking down on the benighted unbelievers that you feel you're so superior to.
I've always wondered why the arrogance and demands proliferate with the religious when your god tells you to do the exact opposite. It's fascinating.
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@Ynotisay Since when did stating facts about reality and the state of the world become arrogance? Wow. I see that this generation is also trying to redefine the word arrogance, just like what has been done with the word love. In true Orwellian newspeak fashion. How does it feel to have joined their ranks?
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Sounds like your getting old... its ok. As soon as you hit 30 all teenager music sounds like shit. If you think everything around you is devolving but no one else thinks that, maybe its you? Maybe change your environment or the way you think about it?
So either believe in a god - specifically your version of your god - or be damned?
Doesn't seem to be working does it, given Judaism, Christianity and Islam stem from one small, ancient Hebrew society's religious beliefs themselves invented in the Late Bronze Age, and fought over ever since.
Or is that polemic merely your personal bitterness that not everyone wants or needs to believes as you, spilling over?
