I don't expect you to understand the primary aims of spirituality. But one of them is to transcend certain attitudes.

Did Osama transcend his carnality or did he embrace his own spiritual pride?
He thinks he knows better than everyone else and acted on it in a violent manner.

Did Christ ever spill the blood of any human being?

He is supposed to in revelations, does that count?

The sigh was for an entirely unsupported assertion as fact followed by a 'No True Scotsman' fallacy.

Of course it does. According to Concerto that happened in 70 AD.

U guys really need to get lives. On here arguing over something that "supposedly", but probably isn't even real, happend in 70AD???

Like I said, get lives. Its really a lot better than this guys lololol

Yeah i never understood that. Jesus is supposed to come back and have all nations/peoples bow to him after a great war with the Devil/Satan. But clearly that did not happen.


I didn't know i couldn't do both. Ty for straightening me out.

Yeah guys, come on, let us go get REAL lives where we post on internet forums about how people who post on internet forums have no lives.

@ everyone who replied to RIVERH8SME's post - you dumb troll feeders, get bent!

Specifics?

Some Christians believe Jesus will lead an army against Satan and his minions (nonbelievers) in an Armageddon. I dont really want to get into an argument over interpretations it was more of a joke then anything.

Atheists who are really agnostics are those that backslide back to "we don't know if there is a God reasoning" when things get tough.

It comes down to a matter of personal Beliefs. Some atheists firmly beleive that there is no God, even though many people don't beleive they can prove it. They are actually on the same footing as those that Believe in God, like Einstein and some other sicienctists who believe/d in God. And I beleive this is the way God wants it, He wants us to have the free will to choose.

Things never really get tough. Ya just dont know what ya dont know.

no backsliding, just your lack of ability to understand the difference between what an atheist is saying regarding different gods.

(Albert Einstein, 1954) From Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press

So... much... fail...

Asking if religion will survive the 21st century is kind of like asking if language, music or math will survive; of course it will. Religion is just something humans do -- it has always been around and always will be. The Christian era might end soon in the West, but something else will replace it, like "Gaianism" or "Singularitarianism". The time is definitely right for a "green Jesus" or Gaian prophet to appear on the scene though, because the "go forth and multiply" Abrahamic religions don’t have much to offer in an era of global warming, ecological overshoot, etc. The traditional religions are in many ways the problem at this point, so if they don’t survive another century that’s fine by me. A religion consistent with science and Enlightenment thinking is what is desperately needed; right now billions of people are imprisoned by ideas rooted in a three millennia old milieu of hostile desert tribes and high infant mortality that is utterly suicidal in today’s technological world.

What are your arguments for religion dying out in countries that aren't rich countries?

I agree, religion will exist as long as humans exist. However a specific religion like Christianity for example will end relatively fast, like all the previous religions have ended.

When have religions ever ended "fast?" Except in the case of genocide (ie the Cathars--and even then it's not a perfect example), the death of a religion takes a long time, and more often it just ends in syncretism with the new dominant faith (as was the case with Coptic, Syriac, Greek, Roman, Celtic, and Nordic Christianity, with Persian Islam, and with Chinese Buddhism).