Losing our religion?

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By Alister McGrath
Last Updated: 2:12am GMT 24/12/2007

Fewer people may now go to church every Sunday, but that doesn't mean
Britain is suffering from a crisis of faith, argues Alister McGrath

The decline in British church attendance continues. Parents who go to
church are less and less likely to pass on their faith to their
children. The "Decade of Evangelism" seems to have done little to
reverse this trend. As many congregations grow older, there is no sign
of young people queuing to fill the empty pews.

The figures hide significant variations. About 50 per cent of British
church congregations are slowly dwindling - but 15 per cent are
holding their own and 35 per cent are even growing. There are
important surges in attendance at Christmas services, especially at
cathedrals. Organised religion may be in decline, yet a concern for
spirituality remains important for many.

Klag wrote:

If you have not used force, intimidation, deception, or drugs, then
you are innocent.

The pe do philia scare is a fake. It is not harmful. That is why they
refuse to allow anyone to discuss the issue openly. It would reveal
that there is much evidence that it is harmless and can be
beneficial.

check out these sources:

Anthropologist Gilbert Herdt on the culture of the Sambia people.

The Rind Report written by two Temple University psychology
professors.

"Harmful to Minors" by journalist Judith Levine

"Love Against Hate" by Karl Meninger, M.D.

It is even mentioned as common practice in the opera Don Giovanni by
Mozart.

The sex hysteria is being used as a pretext to distract the people
from the failings of the government and to make them fear the
government.

Have you noticed that NGO's and DA's claim to speak for children, but
they never allow the children to speak for themselves?

The following article has been posted to various Usenet newsgroups since
1995, and usually creates quite a stir!

It addresses one of the two or three most-argued-issues between
Christians and non-Christians on the Internet, and between Christians
themselves...

Some object to the idea of an imaginary interview with Jesus about
anything. But 'dialogues with Jesus' / sermons on 'What would Jesus
do/say?' are common homiletical devices often used by Christian
preachers and theologians. (For example Jacob Neusner's 'A Rabbi Talks
with Jesus' is a well-known imaginary dialogue between Jesus and a
sympathetic Jewish scholar).

Many (most?) conservative folks seem to have a visceral homophobic
tendency to shut their minds to any possibility of changing their
deeply-held prejudices and paradigms.

This is too brief, probably simplistic and somewhat tentative. Those of
you to my ideological right and left will want to modify some of this. I
invite your critical comments.

CONTENTS

1-ABOUT WIDELY HELD VIEW OF THE ORIGIN OF RELIGION AND ITS EVOLUTON
BY MOST OF THE EMINENT SOCIOLOGISTS:.....

2- EXAMINATION OF SOCIOLOGISTS' VIEWS ABOUT GOD. ....

3- FAILURES OF SOCIOLOGISTS:....

4- THE FALSE PRIESTS -VS- TRUE FOUNDERS OF RELIGION:....

5- SOCIOLOGISTS CLAIM THAT IDEA OF MANY GODS EVOLVED TO ONE GOD...
CLAIM PUT TO TEST:...

6- EROSION OF A TRUE RELIGION:...

7- DOES RELIGION SUPPORT THE EXPLOITER?....

8- ROLE OF MORALITY FOR THE SURVIVL OF A RELGION:....

9- BEST TIME TO JUDGE A RELIGION:...

10- BEHAVIOR OF SOCIETY TOWARDS PRISTINE AND PURE STAGE OF RELIGION.....

11- UNITY OF GOD ALWAYS WORK IN TWO PLANES:....

12- ROLE OF CORUPT RELIGIOUS PATRIARCHS:....

13- ROLE OF IGNORANT MASSES:....

14- UNITY DESCENDS; IT NEVER ERUPTS FROM THE EARTH:....

15- THREE COMPANIONS OF WISDOM; [Experimentation, History and
Revelation]:....

Internet Daily Chapel
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Online Christian Worship Service
Including the Christmas Song, "In The Bleak Midwinter"

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Welcome to you.

The recommended Order Of Worship on this page is from the top down,
viewing each item in the Worship Service below. Please click on each
link you want to see, then press the BACK button on your browser to
return to this HOME PAGE.
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Blessings to you, in Jesus Christ our Lord.

Worship Service, Including . . .
Christmas song "In The Bleak Midwinter"

Invocation

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helped our non profit agency to assist our community.

I struggled for a long time, in my younger years, trying to
understand
the basic doctrines, the core beliefs, the philosophies, the essence
and contradictions in Old versus New Testament, the behavior of
warrior Christian nations wreaking havoc in non-Christian colonies
(and still conducting horrible wars on non-Christian people around
the globe), Genesis, Noah, the many other stories in the Bible, etc..

Then slowly I came to understand several truths described below,
which eventually enabled me to gradually throw off the yoke,
the shackles and the blinders of a long childhood indoctrination in
Christianity, and I WAS FREE ----- FOREVER:

1. All religions and gods are 'man' made. Made and made up
by humans, not necessarily to deceive but as a result of new
ideas and concepts that evolved and were then accepted as
the (new) truth, the (new) philosophy of life, the (new) gospel,
the (new) 'true' religion.

This was taken on Dec 21st 2007 which is the day before the actual
solstice. The sun did not cross the tropic of Capricorn until just
after 06.00hrs GMT on Dec 22nd.

Some 300 interested people attended attended outstide on the 21st but
the main body of Irelands Druidic and associated groups who understand
the importance of the hour attented this morning, the 22nd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeiULQncpBM

Re: No-Cost Tele-Webinar on "The Seduction of Eve"
http://www.Our-Learning.com/MoralBible/TW06

Hi,

I am so glad you are reading this, because I would like to
invite you to join us next Thursday in a GREAT virtual learning
event. How do I know it is great? Well, if you can take 1
minute and 22 seconds, please listen to this audio clip:

(Before you click on the link, please make sure your speakers
are on and unmuted.)

-->> http://tinyurl.com/2spb3o

Now you understand why I am so excited about next Thursday.
We got so many requests from those who missed our last tele-
webinar with Professor Reuven Kimelman on "The Seduction of
Eve: Why Did She Do It?" that we decided to do it again so that
YOU can have YOUR OWN questions about this well known yet oft
little understood story in Chapter 3 of the Book of Genesis
answered.