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cyberia Donating Member (79 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 08:01 AM
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Yahweh's terminal illness
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We can see a time coming when America will join the advanced sector countries and put its obsession with Iron Age mythology behind it.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1 Cr 13:11


The overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens profess some religious faith, although far fewer attend worship services on a regular basis. The public square has become increasingly dominated by religious (specifically, Christian) rhetoric, from the "values voters" of the 2004 presidential election to hot-button cultural issues that carry a religious edge -- abortion, gay rights, stem-cell research, intelligent design, the right to die.

And yet at the same time a compelling undercurrent is at work. A study done by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York found that the percentage of the population that describes itself as "nonreligious" more than doubled from 1990 to 2001, from 14.3 million to 29.4 million people. The only other group to show growth was Muslims.


http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/living/religion/14121950.htm
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