Originally posted by rwingett
So you're going to cling to your antiquated first century religion until the bitter end, eh?
Fewer and fewer people are able to take these preposterous fairy tales seriously. Religious attendance is dropping across the western world. I think we are on the threshold of a massive paradigm shift away from traditional Christianity. If you refuse to update J ...[text shortened]... y all the absurd Pauline mythology, there is a core of material there that is worth preserving.
yes religious attendance is dropping throughout the world, it was prophesied that this would take place (see Babylon the great, in the book of revelation chapter seventeen, and the waters that feed her, drying up).
the fact of the matter remains, the application of biblical principles in the life of an individual is the only way, and i repeat it, the only way for us to solve our problems, for they are able to transcend every conceivable boundary, national, social, religious, economic, educational whatever. there have been a plethora of differing types of secular agencies which have done more harm to the human cause than can be imagined, every form of government has been tried and in each and every instance, they have failed, because man has dominated his fellow man to his injury. there is no doubt, in the face of such conflicting secular advise that living by biblical principles is not only the right thing to do, but affords an individual and society the surest way for happiness and success, in this life!
and just for the record, they are in no way to be considered antiquated, for they are more relevant now than ever before, for as the Sikhs of India are wont to say, truth is eternal!