Yesterday I gave you all a little break and filled your lives with mirth and merriment (I would say gaiety, but that would titillate the gays and lesbians) but today it is back to my usual ranting and raving, so get used to it, the break is over. And, once again, stinking Blogger won’t let me up load any pictures today. These people need to get their act together.
Have Religion, the Church and the Bible Become Passé?
According to recent polls, America is still a deeply religious nation, but you certainly can’t tell it from what we see going on around us, teachers bed-hoping with our children, teens beating the holy daylights out of each other on cell phone cameras so that they can post it on YouTube, so as not to miss out on their fifteen minutes of fame. Gay and lesbian rights groups, along with other groups foisting their immoral practices and ideas on the rest of our society, politicians that are growing more corrupt and dishonest by the day. Television shows and movies, along with much of our music entertainment getting filthier by the day. Teens and preteens boinking each other at younger and younger ages, while many parents (mothers of all people, you know, the nurturers) throwing drug, alcohol and sex parties for their teenage sons and daughters, and then having a “roll in the hay” with their son’s or daughter’s teenage friends. Well, if this is a religion of the depraved and debased, then I guess
So many Christians today, regardless of their denomination or church affiliation no longer believe that following Jesus Christ is the only way to eternal life, even though the Bible tells us that Jesus taught, “No one can get to the Father except through me.”
According to the findings that released yesterday of the results gathered in a survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 57% of Evangelical church attendees said they believe many religions can lead to eternal life, in conflict with traditional Christian teaching. This same percentage can also be found in most all of the major Christian churches in
Catholics, more than any other group, break with their Church’s teachings, not just on issues such as abortion and homosexuality, but on many other issues as well. For instance, only six in ten Catholics believe in God as a “person with whom we can have a personal relationship” – which the church teaches – while three in ten described God as some sort of “invisible cosmic force.”
Approximately 70% of Americans who claim a religious affiliation share this new view, and another 68% espouse the belief that there are many valid ways to interpret what Holy Scripture teaches. In other words, anybody can reinterpret the bible to suit their own desires, no matter how immoral. D. Michael Lindsay, a sociologist of religion at
Sadly, further study finds that one in four Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants and Orthodox Christians, along with six in ten Jews, expressed serious doubts about God’s existence. But what is really amazing is that 21% of self-proclaimed atheists claim that they believe in God or some sort of “universal” spirit, with at least 8% being absolutely certain of it.
We can only conclude that religion, the Church and God’s word in the Bible are no-longer relevant, which then means that if the writings in the Bible were inspired by the Holy Spirit, then neither the Holy Spirit nor God Himself really knew what they were talking about because after all, who knows better then God as to what is best for us? We do! And our new found Messiah, Barack Obama says it best:
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