Post-Christian America: How Did We Get Here?

This video is based on research by Barna Group and other pollsters that show America is becoming a post-Christian nation. I blame the Religious Right and their involvement with the failed political movements that ruined America's living standards and standing in the world, as well as the anti-intellectual dogmatism of many conservative Christians. I urge younger Christians to show Christ to the world through concrete acts of compassion in the face of overwhelming societal crisis and to overcome the anti-intellectual and anti-scientific follies of their elders.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Religious Right
• Post-Christian
• Evangelicals
• unChristian
• Fundamentalists
• Fundamentalism
• Emergent Church
• Everything Must Change
• Mark Driscoll
• post-evangelical
• Pat Robertson
• Jerry Falwell
• James Dobson
• Focus on the Family
• Conservative Christians

[ubersteigen]

Was this supposed to have sound ?

[xinosaj]

@mbaren58 No Protestant - indeed, no person - denies that Peter, Paul, John & co. delivered oral sermons. The question is, what is the only "canonical" record of the substance of what they taught? Obviously, it's just the written word. There is no preserved "oral" tradition in the RCC, aside from a corpus of evolving theological thought that's clearly developed greatly over time - even within our own short lifetimes. There are no extra-biblical words of Jesus that you've preserved, none at all.

[xinosaj]

@mbaren58 It isn't a ? of which "tradition" has supreme authority - the ? is whether this "tradition" even exists. If you can't recite a pure, preserved oral tradition, then it doesn't exist. An oral tradition is exactly that - a discrete body of knowledge that has been preserved and passed along mouth-to-mouth. It's obvious that no such thing exists in the Catholic Church.

[xinosaj]

@mbaren58 Those vids were out for 2 years, and it'd been months since a single commentator posted anything that hadn't been said 1000X before. I'm too busy to answer the same crap repeatedly. I never removed a single comment, except those with profanities. Unlike your guys - OneTrueChurch, SteveSilva, etc. These dudes remove comments they can't refute and block users who are smarter than them. That's what religious fanaticism depends upon.

[christo930]

@MercuryRis I've yet to see examples of these phenomenon. I have read stories of children who talked about people who lived before and got 1 or 2 details right and everything else wrong. There is a story from british TV right on youtube about a kid who supposedly knew a family on some Island and when they finally went there, all kinds of details were flat out WRONG. Show me a verified case where they really do know something, then we can start from there.

[MercuryRis]

@christo930 I used to think that. Yet I totally understand your opinion. But how do you explain American toddlers speaking Sumerian or a sex year old knowing the exact anatomy of a WWII plane withour even seeing one? I know you have your rational explanation and I respect that. I just had too many things to happen to believe otherwise, and that doesnt make me bow down to a skydaddy.

[christo930]

@MercuryRis Near death experiences are pretty well understood and can be induced by magnets and g-forces. THere is no evidence of paranormal activity or past-life regression. But as soon as there is evidence for these things, you can sign me up.

[MercuryRis]

@christo930 Interesting concept, but I disagree. Ya see there is some evidence (near death experiences, past-life regression, paranormal activity) that tend to lean towards an afterlife, but I dont see the evidence of an old white bachelor in the shy sitting on his throne with his son who is him along with a bird. 

[xxzerawriotxx]

Ive been in the Church you see in the beginning,it is in Fells point Baltimore.

[christo930]

@xinosaj Society doesn't just run around churches, but I do believe that churches do have an advantage of community. However, there are community centers, clubs and other things that function the same way. We also have what you have, family, friends and community. To think that only churches are community/social centers is just naive.