Same old rehashed, beating-a-dead-rotten horse; over and over. Not gonna be baited when you know where I stand ... besides, I don't wish to be arrested by the English police; nor am I overly concerned what you agree with. Deal with it.
Simple question, that you have never answered to me.
How old is the earth?
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
Childish, dishonest, wussy response when he screws up twice, as usual.
Vrede too wrote:Mr.B fails English, again, this time on the difference between "evidence" and "beliefs". Also, "tolerance" has to do with the law and policy where he wants his bigotry expressed. It has nothing to do with our agreeing with his fairy tales.
(P.S. --- Vrede ... it's March. Don't 'cha think it's time to unveil a new "Phrase of the Month" ... ?
Your peers are waiting with bated breath to see what your finely-tuned narcissistic mind has conjured up.
Be concise; their anticipation is electric.)
Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups in a 32-question survey of religious knowledge by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. On average, Americans got 16 of the 32 questions correct. Atheists and agnostics got an average of 20.9 correct answers. Jews (20.5) and Mormons (20.3). Protestants got 16 correct answers on average, while Catholics got 14.7 questions right.
How will you do on the quiz?
Your score
32 Correct
0 Wrong
100%
You answered 32 of 32 questions correctly for a total score of 100%.
Average reader score
84%
Twice as knowledgeable about religion as the average Protestant. Funny that.
#11 correct, but I wasn’t 100% sure. #29 correct, but I sort of guessed between 2 of the choices. So, I could have ended up at 93.75%.
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You answered 29 of 32 questions correctly for a total score of 91%.
I missed the ones dealing with Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism.
No biggie, don't dabble in them anyway; unaware of any reincarnated cows, chickens, goats, etc. in anyone's family I know,
nor of any out-of-body experiences...
... On the one hand, it’s an anomaly. The deep bond between the Trump administration and white Evangelicals has perplexed scholars and observers in the media, who have noted, again and again, the seeming cultural chasms between the Manhattan billionaire’s past lifestyle and conservative Evangelicals’ emphasis on moral character and family values.
Yet in other ways, it makes perfect sense, scholars say. Among the religious groups within the US, the culture of Evangelicalism has maintained both a vivid sense of America as a Christian nation and a deeply-rooted exclusive theology that remains suspicious of those outside the fold.
“I think the biggest thing is that Evangelicals have mixed their faith with the state, making a kind of religious nationalism,” says Pastor Bob Roberts, head of the 3,000-member NorthWood Church, an evangelical congregation in Keller, Texas. “They see it as ‘taking back America,’ as stopping the Muslims from taking over America.” ...
'There really is a fear ...'
And like many historians, Balmer notes that the rise of the religious right in the 1960s and 1970s had more to do with a reaction to the desegregation of the public school system, and their efforts to establish private Christian academies, rather than issues surrounding abortion or human sexuality....
Pretty much as I posted. Serial lying, racially and religiously bigoted, "pussy" grabbing sexual assaulter Trump is the white Evangelicals' new messiah. It's tough these days for Evangelicals that actually place scripture over politics. Too many of their peers have lost sight of the difference.
Mr.B wrote:You answered 29 of 32 questions correctly for a total score of 91%.
"...nor of any out-of-body experiences..."
"Maybe you'd find the Bible to be interesting reading, then."
Good comeback! I was referring to trances and/or voodooism!
Maybe you'd find the Bible to be interesting reading, then. Trances of Peter and Paul, Acts 10:10 ; 11:5 ; 22:17 , ecstasies, "a preternatural, absorbed state of mind preparing for the reception of the vision",
Then, there are the numerous biblical curses and plagues visited upon individuals and communities, no different from voodoo myths. There were no voodoo questions in the quiz and I don't think trances were there, either. Mr.B must be having an out-of-body experience. Nttawwt.
Voodoo does incompass a lot of use of symbols, amulets, etc. to protect against evil. The Bible thinks God wouldn't be that happy with that. “In that day, the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, headbands, crescent ornaments, dangling earrings, bracelets, veils, headdresses, ankle chains, sashes, perfume boxes [and] amulets” (Isaiah 3:18-20. Which is all well and good, I guess, but if I wore a gold cross necklace or used prayer beads or had a plastic Jesus sitting on my dash, I might be concerned.
OK, OK, I cry uncle. Many of the questions asked were not of Biblical knowledge, rather they dealt with various "religions" and practices. The Christian that has accepted Christ does not concern him/herself with worldly practices.
Vrede too wrote:"God makes an exception for a plastic bobblehead(sic) Jesus sitting on your dash.
Even s/he/it has a sense of humor." That's why He keeps plastic, hollow bobble-heads such as yourself on His dash, (you know, the Accord?) although He never spoke one word about driving while distracted.
"Oklahoma lawmaker asks Muslims: 'Do you beat your wife?'
"Bigoted cretins, that's how rightwing(sic) Republican Baptists are." For sure our all-knowing walking fountain of mis-information knows all these things to be fact.
Mr.B wrote:. The Christian that has accepted Christ does not concern him/herself with worldly practices.
Apparently s/he does. Essentially everything in the practice of the Christian religion (as well as the others) are all "worldly practices." You don't get to do unworldly practices until you've died. Rituals, ranging from baptism to communion, to rules on drinking, Lent, whatever, are all worldly practices, most of which have little if anything to do with the afterlife.
Good comeback! I was referring to trances and/or voodooism!