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Globally, people are much less religious than they used to be. Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist / Taoist / Shinto / Confucianism, Christian, Judaism, miscellaneous animist tribal religions - all of these faiths are in sharp decline. Every day, fewer people practice these faiths. Children of adherents are les...

The “caesaropapism” is probably what turns me off to EO the most.

The simple fact is, if he’s telling people not to copy it freely, he’s violating the licence that allows him to distribute or alter Wikipedia text in the first place and has no right to do so. Windows and what you do is different. You aren’t altering the OS and redistributing it and you also are pay...

Pray, hope and do not worry. St. Pio of Pietrelcina. Social media does enjoy bleeding headlines. If every faithful Christian believer were to spend more time serving the Lord in real time and less time doom scrolling, a substantial change would continue: revival will continue to grow and the mass m...

steve-in-kville wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:36 am I'd like to know, when a gay couple gets engaged, who wears the ring?

I sold an engagement ring to a lesbian couple once. The “butch” partner proposed to the “femme” partner who wore the ring.

What difference does NATO membership make? Declaring hot war on Russia means declaring war on the entire unaligned world. Countries like China, India, Brazil, and other major powers are not aligned with Western European/American hegemony and anti-western politicians will gain significant power by tr...

You've said it before, but I think it's worth highlighting again here: I think there's one central reason Josh and Judas and other Protestant Fundamentalists often find it so difficult to comprehend pre-Reformation views, like this one, that that are both straightforward and squarely within histori...

Is someone saved as headed to heaven before baptism or not?

This is a simple yes/no question.

I read the same thing.

If present trends continue, the only churchgoers left will be some traditionalist Catholics, Oneness Pentecostals, plain Anabaptists, and other assorted fringe groups like JWs.

Some of the material in his Wikipedia is content that I wrote. He’s not paying me for it. Why should he be supported for what he did but not me? I licenced it freely, but expected anyone who copied what I wrote to comply with the licence terms, which is to not prohibit someone else from copying it....