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Originally posted by marg6043
reply to post by TheCoffinman
I don't know from where this statistics comes from because here in the south is nothing but Southern Baptist territory and let no forget the fundamentalist strong hold call the bible belt
This so call numbers and fastest growing religion in the US seems, looks and smells like propaganda financed by the Islamic movement.
Originally posted by marg6043
I don't know from where this statistics comes from because here in the south is nothing but Southern Baptist territory and let no forget the fundamentalist strong hold call the bible belt
This so call numbers and fastest growing religion in the US seems, looks and smells like propaganda financed by the Islamic movement.
Originally posted by wildtimes
reply to post by FlyersFan
Also - Islam is really obsessed with sex, both on earth in the afterlife, whereas Christianity and the Christian afterlife is definately NOT.
Wait. What?
Where do you think the Catholic "celibacy" requirement comes from? The Puritan's belief that sex is a sin unless it is to procreate? How do you explain the Catholic Church's absolute guilt in pedophilia and the general "abstinence" doctrines then? The suppression of women's rights, the "filth" of their natural processes, the hush-hush attitude about biological realities of conception.
Those are rhetorical questions, btw. The stifled prudishness of this entire country is based on Christian tenets. Kids aren't properly educated as to the names and functions of their sex organs, they are taught to be ashamed of their nudity, that sex will send them to hell. It's appalling.
Get real, please, before you get out your arsenal of rolly-eyes and lolz and blue head-shaking tools and denial and start shoving Chatecism links down everyone's throats.
You'll still be wrong.
But as a Christian (Protestant) there has actually been alot of "liberation" around the subject of sex. The modern church isn't the same as the puritians . Now it is still considered to be held only in marriage
the fundamentalist strong hold call the bible belt
I know not everyone will have this perception, that there is much less stigma to premarital sex then there used to be.
Originally posted by TheCoffinman
Do you know what the fastest growing religion in America is? It isn’t Christianity. According to the latest U.S. Religion Census that was just released on May 1, 2012, the fastest growing religion in America is Islam. The data for the census was compiled by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, and the results were released by the Association of Religion Data Archives. From the year 2000 to the year 2010, the census found that the number of Muslims living inside the United States increased from 1 million to 2.6 million – a stunning increase of 66.7 percent.
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Things should get interesting down the road because a we all know, America is the most Christian of Christian nations and the 'clash of civilizations' if you will could be more violent here than in Europe. The rise of the far right in Europe is interesting... how will America react? How will you?