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Religion in America.....done?
- Thread starter hal9000
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That's only the people that are into an organized religion. There are for more that believe in some god that don't attend any church.
Obviously we're a very long ways from "done."
crime is at all-time lows. There has never been a more safe time to be a human living on earth.
Violent crime has been rising all the way through the pandemic actually.
Why America’s Great Crime Decline Is Over
Even before the recent mass shootings, violent crime was surging to its highest rate in 30 years. Patrick Sharkey illuminates what’s happening.
www.theatlantic.com
This analysis is based on the graph from your post:
NO RELIGION -------------------23%
EVANGELICAL ------------------23%
CATHOLIC ------------------------21%
MAINLINE PROTESTANT -13%
BLACK PROTESTANT --------7%
OTHER FAITH --------------------6%
JEWISH -----------------------------2%
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TOTAL ------------------------------95%
MY ERROR--------------------------5%
The following is intended for the 64% of Americans who take Christianity seriously, many who voted for Trump. This comes from St. Paul to the Thessalonians. See if this sounds anything like what happened recently with Trump, Covid, the election, and the Jan 6 rebellion:
"3 Don’t let anyone [Trump] deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs [Jan. 6] and the man of lawlessness [Trump] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.
4 [Trump] will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.
5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things?
6 And now you know what is holding [Trump] back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.
7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back [House of Representatives] will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way [voted out].
8 And then the lawless one [Trump] will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth [Covid spreads by breath of the mouth] and destroy by the splendor of his coming.
9 The coming of the lawless one [Trump] will be in accordance with how Satan works. [Trump] will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie [the big lie is massive voter fraud and that Trump really won the election],
10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. [they refused to mask and distance, so they perish, or brought the virus to a loved one who perished, thus Trump killed 400,000 Americans][2]"
Man of sin - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
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Crazy that someone who can apply the correct science in surfboards (i.e. the mechanics of surfboard strength) is so far out on another field of science. The measurement of changes are the easiest part of climate science. It's just using CO2 metering, ice cores and fairly basic chemistry and physics. There is nothing controversial about that part. What we are going to do about it is another question.
but can you prove RIGHT NOW what the ideal climate of earth is?
this will be his response. He doesn‘t care how well optimized the scientific methodologies are.
If you disagree with the experts about the cause, what do you think is the cause?
If you disagree on methodology to measure changes, what are your ideas?
What are the baseless claims of doom and level of threat?
What will they do when coastal areas become uninhabitable? WAR! Coastal dwellers try to move inland.
"There is a strong scientific consensus that the Earth is warming and that this warming is mainly caused by human activities. This consensus is supported by various studies of scientists' opinions and by position statements of scientific organizations, many of which explicitly agree with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) synthesis reports.
Nearly all actively publishing climate scientists (97–98%[3]) support the consensus on anthropogenic climate change,[4][5] and the remaining 2% of contrarian studies either cannot be replicated or contain errors.[6] A 2019 study found scientific consensus to be at 100%."
Scientific consensus on climate change - Wikipedia
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Seriously, don't bother engaging. You'll get nowhere and you'll change zero minds. Didn't you ever see the movie War Games?
He has been trained since childhood to believe absurdities and deny reality.