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Joel Send a noteboard - 01/03/2010 02:30:44 AM
Much like the military, the church (and other religious institutions more than ten years old) often find themselves using tactics that would have been great for the previous generation, but are less effective now. Some groups adjust better than others.
People are becoming more and more aware that their are things in the universe that cannot be quantified. The churches that welcome people asking those questions are growing. We'll see how it plays out.
People are becoming more and more aware that their are things in the universe that cannot be quantified. The churches that welcome people asking those questions are growing. We'll see how it plays out.
re: new tactics to recruit young members; please watch the documentary, Jesus Camp, and shudder a bit.
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. It's literally preaching to the choir, on such an insulting level none of it will last one day beyond the moment they realize they don't HAVE to let mommy and daddy pick out their clothes. That kind of garbage does more harm than good for the Church, because, ironically, it regurgitates the same message as the most strident atheist, that religious faith and contiguous brain cells are mutually exclusive. If you teach people they can't have their own thoughts and be religious, you teach them to abhor religion, whichever side you're trying to support.
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Study: Young Americans less religious than their parents
- 19/02/2010 03:41:04 AM
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Re: Study: Young Americans less religious than their parents
- 19/02/2010 05:45:41 AM
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Heh...praying that an area doesn't become more religious. 
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the irony in seeing only Christianity as religious, yet praying to "the gods"
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Yeah, I'd say that fits in with my observations
- 19/02/2010 06:56:26 AM
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Study: Parents think kids music is crap. Also, sun to rise in east for a change. 
- 19/02/2010 02:39:45 PM
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- 19/02/2010 07:52:47 PM
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These things are often cyclical.
- 19/02/2010 06:00:29 PM
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- 19/02/2010 07:55:33 PM
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There was a(t least one) large wotmania thread on it.
- 01/03/2010 02:30:44 AM
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hardly surprising with a pop culture that attacks and ridicules religious thoughts and values
- 19/02/2010 08:20:35 PM
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Re: hardly surprising with a pop culture that attacks and ridicules religious thoughts and values
- 19/02/2010 08:44:16 PM
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horseshit
- 19/02/2010 09:16:40 PM
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Re: horseshit
- 19/02/2010 09:35:48 PM
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(that last bit was supposed to be taken as ridiculous, and not an offensive statement towards you)
- 19/02/2010 09:37:11 PM
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Re: horseshit
- 21/02/2010 08:11:49 PM
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Yeah, not everyone's faith has rollover points. Some people have Verizon or Sprint religions.
- 21/02/2010 10:02:43 PM
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I don't think a moral compass is the sole benefit of religion
- 22/02/2010 07:13:08 PM
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Re: I don't think a moral compass is the sole benefit of religion
- 22/02/2010 07:29:22 PM
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This is a radically different view of Christianity than "rollover points. "
- 01/03/2010 02:42:49 AM
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