@jenni100 Nothing you said here is valid. You are not a deep thinker. You engage in psychological projection and people like you are why extreme or traditional religion is dying.

You simply have no clue.

@FlowersNButterflies Thank you for your courteous reply and best wishes of the season. I must have been mistaken concluding that you are an intolerant bigot. As you say, i have no clue what motivates you to write such fact-free stuff and in such a rude way.

[As for facts, i'll just cite the recent research on numbers of baptized Catholics (if that's an extreme or traditional enough form of Christianity for you) the most recent data show the numbers growing everywhere except Europe (where the total population declined). It grew fastest in Africa, but also increased in the Americas, Oceania, and Asia. The number of Catholics rose overall to 1.39 billion worldwide. The population of Christians of all kinds is about 2.4 billion, the world's largest religion.]

In your new reply, you say extreme or traditional religion, not just Christianity, is dying. I would not base foreign policy on that claim. Islam has fewer adherents than Christianity, but it is growing in numbers even faster and, some would say (especially in northern Nigeria and in the Middle East) in extremism.

@jenni100 I didn't read your diatribe. I like interacting with intelligent people. Next I will block you.

@Musicman I couldn't use normal sized Christmas ornaments for my tiny, tiny tree...so I gave one very special one made of volcanic glass from Mount St. Helen's eruption to my son, and I was forced to sell all the rest at the yard sale my son made me have on his front lawn.

@4meAndyou I am sorry to hear that ☹ I haven't used the balls from my childhood in years. Mainly I don't trust Padoodle. Lol!!! We haven't put up a tree since Covid. ☹

@Musicman Padoodle tree!

@Sazzio Interesting. Thank you.

@OverTheHill Jesus is not the reason. Read up on the creation of christianity. So many elements of paganism have been celebrated from ages before the myth of jesus.

You are seeing the world as YOU are, not as IT is.

@FlowersNButterflies . Thanks for your response. I can assure you that I have read the the Biblical account of the birth of Christ, and the beginnings of the church. Jesus is no myth, even atheists will attest to that (https://historyforatheists.com/2017/05/did-jesus-exist-the-jesus-myth-theory-again/). As it says in the aforementioned article, "The proponents of the Jesus Myth hypothesis are almost exclusively amateurs with an ideological axe to grind and their position is and will almost certainly remain on the outer fringe of theories about the origins of Christianity."

There is nothing wrong with the way that I and billions of other Christians see the world. Merry Christmas FlowersNButterflies!

@OverTheHill Just because you believe that does not make it true. Read about Origen and his writings.

@Ducky
That's because you're taking it WAY too seriously!