Teens are fleeing religion like never before: Massive new study exposes religion’s decline

[tmonster]

he is talking in circles his tone in earlier post is people that are not spiritual are ridiculous.

 

[Poitier]

what in the church do you feel should not be labeled as negative?

Churches function as homeless shelters, schools, centers for the arts, centers for music, poverty outreach, build a sense of belonging in a community, etc

Then again I'm responding to an idiot.

 

[tmonster]

Churches function as homeless shelters, schools, centers for the arts, centers for music, poverty outreach, build a sense of belonging in a community, etc
.

Why do any of these things have to be in a church?

Then again I'm responding to an idiot

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

The point of institutional religion isn't "finding answers"

Yeah it is.

It answers the questions of ethics for people who refuse to invest in understanding how societies work and it tries to simplify the natural world with explanations for physical phenomena.

What the entire fukk are you talking about?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Churches function as homeless shelters, schools, centers for the arts, centers for music, poverty outreach, build a sense of belonging in a community, etc

Then again I'm responding to an idiot.

None of this is exclusive to religion.

 

[Poitier]

Why do any of these things have to be in a church?

This is irrelevant in regard to your prior statement.

If the non-religious want to create their own institutions that do those thing then do it, but I've seen little evidence of any interest to do so.

 

[Poitier]

Yeah it is.

It answers the questions of ethics for people who refuse to invest in understanding how societies work and it tries to simplify the natural world with explanations for physical phenomena.

What the entire fukk are you talking about?

The point of religion was to foster community and create norms, dumbass. The stories were a means to coalesce community.

 

[tmonster]

This is irrelevant in regard to your prior statement.

actually it does
these things have nothing to do with church, it's just things that people do when they get together
plenty of secular groups do the same stuff

If the non-religious want to create their own institutions that do those thing then do it, but I've seen little evidence of any interest to do so.

you'd have to look

 

[tmonster]

The point of religion was to foster community and create norms, dumbass. The stories were a means to coalesce community.

why you so mad?

 

[tmonster]

The point of institutional religion isn't "finding answers"

you may want to tell religion that

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

The point of religion was to foster community and create norms, dumbass. The stories were a means to coalesce community.

I LITERALLY said this

 

[Poitier]

actually it does
these things have nothing to do with church, it's just things that people do when they get together
plenty of secular groups do the same stuff

You claimed the church does nothing progressive/positive, to which I quickly destroyed.

 

[tmonster]

You claimed the church does nothing progressive/positive, to which I quickly destroyed.

can...can you quote where I said that? I am fascinated to see it

 

[Poitier]

I LITERALLY said this

No, you seem to have this dumb idea that social engineering is a hard science with objective answers

 

[Poitier]

can...can you quote where I said that? I am fascinated to see it

Which of the things I've listed are negative?