Hmm...undisclosed sources alleging outrageous things leading to ridiculously improbably actions that would have the opposite effect from that allegedly intended...yeah, let's run with it.
Didn't say it was true, just something to think about. All of a sudden, there is a lot of evidence for a lot of crimes by the Vatican. Time will tell.
Hmm...undisclosed sources alleging outrageous things leading to ridiculously improbably actions that would have the opposite effect from that allegedly intended...yeah, let's run with it.
His pernicious habit of explaining the sacred records as the Platonists explained the ... The tender devotion of a pious Christian mother, the rhetorical polish acquired in the .... And if, of the four doctors of the Church particularized by some writers, .... he was noted rather for versatility of genius and prodigious literary industry.
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hippiechick
Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind?
Location: topsy turvy land Gender: Zodiac: Chinese Yr:
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Dec 4, 2012 - 1:25pm
RichardPrins wrote:
Pat Robinson, the rebel...
On today’s 700 Club, televangelist Pat Robertson appeared to break with many of his fellow fundamentalists who subscribe to Young Earth creationism regarding the age of the earth, disputing their notion that the planet is only around 6,000 years old. Robertson said that James Ussher, the seventeenth century bishop who to this day is heralded by Young Earth creationists for using the Bible to argue that the earth was created in 4004 BC, “wasn’t inspired by the Lord when he said it all took 6,000 years, it just didn’t.” While many creationists believe that dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark, Robertson insisted that dinosaurs “were on the earth before the time of the Bible, so don’t try to cover it up and make like everything was 6,000 years, that’s not the Bible.”
What We Say About Our Religion, And What We Do A recent Pew survey found that an unprecedented one in five Americans now say they are not affiliated with any religious denomination. Or, looked at another way, nearly four out of five identify with an organized faith. Research also shows those Americans overstate how often they go to church by about half.
Much of the evidence for religiosity comes from surveys about the frequency of church attendance and the like, but the report quotes Philip Brenner, a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, who says that when people are asked a question about how often they attend church, they actually answer a slightly different question, such as “Are you the sort of person who attends?” If they think they should be that sort of person, then they inflate their attendance. But when they are asked to keep a diary of how they actually spend their time, Sunday church attendance figures drop from the self-reported 45% to about 24%, not that different from godless Europe.
Interestingly, when people in Europe are asked to keep a time diary, their self-reports of frequency of church attendance is similar to that obtained from their time diaries.
So when people say that Americans are more religious than Europe, all that it might mean is that Americans feel a greater pressure to look like they are religious.
On today’s 700 Club, televangelist Pat Robertson appeared to break with many of his fellow fundamentalists who subscribe to Young Earth creationism regarding the age of the earth, disputing their notion that the planet is only around 6,000 years old. Robertson said that James Ussher, the seventeenth century bishop who to this day is heralded by Young Earth creationists for using the Bible to argue that the earth was created in 4004 BC, “wasn’t inspired by the Lord when he said it all took 6,000 years, it just didn’t.” While many creationists believe that dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark, Robertson insisted that dinosaurs “were on the earth before the time of the Bible, so don’t try to cover it up and make like everything was 6,000 years, that’s not the Bible.”
