Why secularism has failed.......

[Chico]

Excellent article that smashes the myth and deceit of secularism.

Christianity conquers atheism

[sasguru]

Chico, when you mislead you lie. Yet again you have broken a commandment, as you well know.

Here is a site with more objective truth than the ranting, misleading propaganda spewed by the "christian" sites.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/uk_rel.htm

[bogeyman]

OTOH

You might want to consider why Religion has failed.

Look around you at the state of the world FFS!

Is that your God in action!

[Mordac]

Excellent article that smashes the myth and deceit of secularism.

I bet you 10p it doesn't. My guess is it's yet another biased article from some hardline God-Botherer or other. Am I right?

[ratewhore]

organised religion is vacant - this is the new truth...

[John Galt]

The essence of the argument is that the vast majority of people in the UK and US are Chrisitan but do not go to church. So what. All this tells us is that people are sick to death of the hypocrisy of organised religion. Sorry Chicobot no smashing of myths or deceit there

[Chico]

Yes you atheists have been deceived, you have bought into the myth of secularism eagerly abetted by pseudo science which ever seeks to show that man can define his own morality. The God haters believed in this lie in order to excuse their many sins of adultery, fornication, murder, abortion, racism, sexism, selfishness, idolatry the list is endless. All blinded by their sins and the chief sinner of them all - the devil. The sad thing is that the eternal damnation promised for these sinners is very real.

As the Bible says

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

2 Corinthians 4:4

[John Galt]

Yes you atheists have been deceived, you have bought into the myth of secularism eagerly abetted by pseudo science which ever seeks to show that man can define his own morality. The God haters believed in this lie in order to excuse their many sins of adultery, fornication, murder, abortion, racism, sexism, selfishness, idolatry the list is endless. All blinded by their sins and the chief sinner of them all - the devil. The sad thing is that the eternal damnation promised for these sinners is very real.

As the Bible says

The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

2 Corinthians 4:4

Point 1 - you don't know whether I am an atheist or not - as it happens I am not.

Point 2 - you have proven yourself to be a racist, you have proved yourself to be selfish and you have condoned murder.

To be honest Chico in the beginning I admired you for your faith but you have become a self-opinionated, pompous ass who wants to ram his religion down everyone's throats. Look to Jesus and his powers of persuasion rather than the religious fanatics you insist you despise yet, in fact, emulate

[BobTheCrate]

Better an agnostic or athiest than a self deluded idiot.

God haters ay Chico ? You sound just like an Islamist ranting death to the unbelievers.

You belong in the dark ages Chico.

[Ardesco]

"Satan Was Really a Saintly Indian King. In Chapter II, I explained that Satana was in reality a Gujarati city-state that lost a war to the Seunas or Zionists. The name of this city was probably derived from that of a Jaina king and founder of a small Jaina sect. We are wrongly taught that a holy man named Mahavira founded Jainism. He was in reality a later reformer. Jainism itself existed millenniums before Mahavira was born. No one really knows exactly when Mahavira lived. I believe that he achieved his enlightenment around 1000 B.C. Some years after his death, a pious Jaina king named Satan-ikas (Satan of Kasi?) began expounding his own version of Jainism. He succeeded in getting only 11 converts. They distinguished themselves from other Jainists by wearing blood-red robes and occasionally bull-horn headresses. Because the sect was (and still is) so very small, it was probably rejected by Jainists as demoniacal and heretical. In those days, the different Indian sects often fought one another, as, indeed, their non-Indian descendants do even today. Over the centuries, this saint and his red clothing evolved to the red-colored monster that the TV preachers use to scare fanatical Christian fundamentalists and convince them to unload their bank accounts and wallets.

The following are the "evil" teachings that this "Satan" used to ensnare innocent victims:

* 1. The senses are not the seat of wisdom.
* 2. The Law of Karma (the effect of our past deeds, whether good or bad) is a reality.
* 3. The world and the beings in it are realities; not illusions.
* 4. The spiritual dimension is also real.
* 5. No one should kill animals.
* 6. We must endure patiently the life conditons that we cannot change.
* 7. Do not mortify the body.
* 8. Always be truthful, sincere, and pure of conduct.
* 9. Do not steal.
* 10. Do not be unfaithful to your spouse. Control all earthly desires.

If Satan-ikas were to return to see what he has become in the minds of Baptist preachers and Jehovah's Witnesses, he'd truly be saddened to learn that he is remembered as The Great Tempter - the man that everyone loves to hate. The preachers need not worry overmuch. Very few people have ever fallen into the clutches of Satan-ikas.

"The Sanskrit/Kashmiri word for "devil" is exactly as in English: dev-il (condition of being a devil). The amazing similarities between English and Sanskrit prompted Indian historian A. K. Mazumdar to write, ".English is essentially Rig-Vedic Sanskrit in disguise."