So you think Merka is a "christian nation"?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Borrowed from RatzSkep:

[quote="DoctorE";p="258358"]Oh really, how weird

The faith of most Christians, even that of many pastors, will not stand up to intellectual scrutiny, according to renowned apologist Josh McDowell.


This is a concern because pastors’ inability to present biblical truth comprehensibly and relevantly has led to children from Christian families leaving the church, research has shown.

In the United States, the age at which nearly all such children leave church has decreased to 18 years.

Not even the children of many successful ministers are spared.

McDowell made his comments at a recent networking dinner among various men’s ministries organized recently by Men-in-Covenant. MiC is the men’s ministry of Covenant Evangelical Free Church.

He recalled speaking with the pastor of one of the largest U.S. churches, a man known for his expository preaching. Confiding in him, the pastor said their church was losing its youth right after high school graduation.

In his 50 years of ministry, McDowell has asked several thousand pastors and leaders how they could be certain Jesus Christ said “I am the truth” and not one of many truths or a truth.

“Not one person has ever given me an intelligent, biblically-based answer,” said the author of The New Evidence that Demands A Verdict.

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[Twiglet]

I expect most Americans believe they live in a Christian nation. Does that make it so?

[Ian]

"As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries....
"The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation."
-- Treaty of Tripoli (1797), carried unanimously by the Senate and signed into law by John Adams

[Xamonas Chegwé]

In his 50 years of ministry, McDowell has asked several thousand pastors and leaders how they could be certain Jesus Christ said “I am the truth” and not one of many truths or a truth.

“Not one person has ever given me an intelligent, biblically-based answer,” said the author of The New Evidence that Demands A Verdict.

The problem appears to be the two, mutually-exclusive adjectives in that sentence.

[AnInconvenientScotsman]

It's a Christian nation no more than Britain is an English nation; just because the majority of the population are Christian (IIRC ) - like the majority of the British population are English - doesn't make them a Christian nation, no matter how many times the Christians blurt it out.

That and, you know, the whole Constitution thing...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's a Christian nation no more than Britain is an English nation; just because the majority of the population are Christian (IIRC ) - like the majority of the British population are English - doesn't make them a Christian nation, no matter how many times the Christians blurt it out.

That and, you know, the whole Constitution thing...

My point is that there are very few actual Christians in the US. The vast majority of them are just bullshitters.

[virphen]

It's a Christian nation no more than Britain is an English nation; just because the majority of the population are Christian (IIRC ) - like the majority of the British population are English - doesn't make them a Christian nation, no matter how many times the Christians blurt it out.

That and, you know, the whole Constitution thing...

My point is that there are very few actual Christians in the US. The vast majority of them are just bullshitters.

And there are no actual Scotsmen in Scotland...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's a Christian nation no more than Britain is an English nation; just because the majority of the population are Christian (IIRC ) - like the majority of the British population are English - doesn't make them a Christian nation, no matter how many times the Christians blurt it out.

That and, you know, the whole Constitution thing...

My point is that there are very few actual Christians in the US. The vast majority of them are just bullshitters.

And there are no actual Scotsmen in Scotland...

Yeah, but the ones that are there can put on a kilt without getting it on upside down. Merkin "Christians" can't even name all the apostles.

[Nightfly]

My point is that there are very few actual Christians in the US. The vast majority of them are just bullshitters.

What's the distinction?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

My point is that there are very few actual Christians in the US. The vast majority of them are just bullshitters.

What's the distinction?

The fanatical believer is always dangerous. Simon Zealotis for example. But the average scrub christian wouldn't risk his butt for anything holy.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

It's a Christian nation no more than Britain is an English nation; just because the majority of the population are Christian (IIRC ) - like the majority of the British population are English - doesn't make them a Christian nation, no matter how many times the Christians blurt it out.

That and, you know, the whole Constitution thing...

My point is that there are very few actual Christians in the US. The vast majority of them are just bullshitters.

And there are no actual Scotsmen in Scotland...

Yeah, but the ones that are there can put on a kilt without getting it on upside down. Merkin "Christians" can't even name all the apostles.

Ooh ooh! Let me try!

Dopey, Happy, the one with the glasses... Doc! That's three. Sleepy, Snoopy, err... Snotty? Did I say Dopey? Grumbly! Now I'm stuck... Fuck it! I give up.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ooh ooh! Let me try!

Dopey, Happy, the one with the glasses... Doc! That's three. Sleepy, Snoopy, err... Snotty? Did I say Dopey? Grumbly! Now I'm stuck... Fuck it! I give up.

You just have to remember three warships. A destroyer (DD), a submarine (SS) and a patrol vessel (HGB). Then it's

D
D
S
S
H
G
B

Easy.