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Skriven 2005-12-28 16:31:18 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 20246 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Happy Jesus's Birthday
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28 Dec 05 10:17, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Roy Witt:


 >>>> BTW, the churches here were filled to the brim with standing
 >>>> room only on Christmas eve and day.

 MvdV>>> Indeed, only when it is Christmas they still have a full church.
 MvdV>>> rest of the year it's just a handful.

 >> Not in this neck of the woods.

 MvdV> Noy yet. The USA appears to leg 50 years behind in that.

Wrong again. There's been a resurgence in the last decade.

 MvdV>>> Face it Roy, religion is a dead end.
 >> Not in this neck of the woods.

 MvdV> The signs that it is on the way out are on the wall. Religion is
 MvdV> bad for business. No need to ask who will be the winner. Desperate
 MvdV> Houswifes sells better than the Pope.

Anything sells better than the pope. However, businesses that changed
their seasons greeting message from Merry Christmas to Happy Holidays,
suffered fewer shoppers.

 >> BTW, I just learned from a reliable source that there are
 >> more Christians in the world today than any other religion.
 MvdV> There are also more atheists in the world now than there ever were.

But they don't outnumber any religion.

 >> At the rate the muslims continue to commit suicide, that ratio
 >> will grow even more.

 MvdV> Dream on.

LOL! As they continue to blow themselves up, they continue to look for
volunteers. They're having some luck, but they're also running out of
candidates.

 MvdV> Anyway, when I said religion is a dead end. I meant ALL religion,
 MvdV> not just Christianity.

I read that.

 MvdV> Religion and science simply don't go together. Clinging to religion
 MvdV> means rejecting science and that is a dead end.

Actually, there are scientists who have accepted their science with
religion. You're just a rotten apple in the lot of scientists.

 MvdV> Ironically it was the catholic church that in the beginning
 MvdV> stimulated astronomy.

Not. The Magi were astronomers long before there was a Catholic church.

 MvdV> They needed astronomy ro predict the dates of Eastern. The Sunday
 MvdV> after the first full moon in (Northern Hemisphere) spring.

That's odd. The hebrews had been keeping a very accurate calendar long
before there was christianity. It's still accurately kept today.

 MvdV> But ten the astronomers found things that the Pope didn't want to
 MvdV> hear. Such as that the earth is not the centre of the universe. ;-)

The astronomers knew this before there was a church. The Catholics were
the ones who suppressed the information to keep everybody in line. They
based their bullshit on what they said was in the Bible, but it wasn't
there. That's when they decided that their parishoners weren't allowed to
read the scriptures.


Roy
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