The slippery slope of secularism -

I used to be an atheist. Used to argue with religious believers, I couldn't handle a lot of the Christian dogmatic beliefs that didn't make sense, such as Adam and Eve, going to hell forever, and so on.

Then I decided I really wanted to know the truth - the truth about what caused the universe, why I was alive, on the earth - what happens after death, and is there any purpose or meaning to life other than get born, eat, and die.

I found out because I wanted to find out, and I gave up my arrogance of thinking I knew.

You can find out, too. Anyone can. You just have to admit that you really don't know whether God exists or not, and ask to be shown, and you will be shown.

You said that there is no correlation between religion and morality. If you're speaking of most religion (including most of what CALLS ITSELF Christianity) you'd be right. But in reference to TRUE religion you'd be incorrect. Consider the words of God in the Bible: "Pure religion and undefiled is this: to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction." To say that true religion is not correlated with morality would be untrue.

Make no mistake, the Lord God Almighty has seen the godlessness of the growing atheist sect in our nation and world and has not at all overlooked the worldliness, fakery, man-made doctrines, and immorality of those who falsely call themselves Christians. There will be a time of reckoning in this nation in which true Christians will be tested, purified, and brought through the fire stronger than ever. Those who falsely claim that name along with the godless atheists will never be able to overcome those people but will instead diminish themselves. In the end, the hand of the wicked (no matter what they call themselves) will be turned against them, and all the false pretenses and doctrines will come to nothing and be destroyed.

Some of the people in our prisons claim the name of Christ, but their actions show that they do not really know Him. They violate the command written in the New Testament to "first do no harm." They do not "do unto others" as they would have others do unto them. Atheists, on the other hand, have no set principles TO violate so to speak on that would be pointless. I would be interested to know where you got that statistic that only 0.2% of the prison population are atheists. I've never heard that before.

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