Top 10 overlooked stories of 2005

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 01/03/2006 | James Rutz

[dangus]

>> He must not be including this country. The statistic here is approximately 40% illiteracy. <<

Nonsense.

[quant5]

"From a purely political point of view I think that Christianity is probably the best hope for avoiding all out world war."

I am Christian because I see the good fruit it bears in my life, my community and around the globe. Christ said it best "You will know them by their works". Their are fanatics with all religions. I got a funny laugh at Bill Mahr the other night when he said that the most fanatic act you get out of Christians is that we have identified the gay tele-tubby.

[quant5]

"I mad it clear from my first post that refusinfg to accept delegated authority (specifically pastors) goes against the Biblical model. Then you cam back and implied I agreed with you, which was an obviously wrong notion.

I take offense to that."

It is this kind of bickering that keeps the last 1/2 of the people on earth from becoming Christian.

[SolidRedState]

No, I am saying that to be accurate, you should ONLY INCLUDE THOSE WHO HAVE MADE A CONSCIOUS DECISION TO BE SERIOUS ABOUT THEIR FAITH. In this sense, Evangelicals are a more accurate headcount. If you count the number of Roman Catholics who are serious about their faith ( not the ones who are merely baptized as infants but who abandon their faith as adults ), it would also be more accurate.

Ah, thank you for clearing that up. From other posts you have made I did not think you to be anti-catholic but I wanted to make sure I understood. In that case I agree with you.

Have a good 2006 FR Brother.

[CharlieOK1]

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[dangus]

>> He probably includes Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy in the mix. This is of course a deceptive way of counting "christians". I know a lot of atheists and agnostics who were "baptized" as Christians when they were babies. <<

FYI, the Book of Acts depicts entire households -- including servants, extended family, and their dependents -- being converted at once. Even the rapture types accept that children of Christians beneath the age of consent are Christians. If you don't register with the parish census, the Catholic CHurch will not count you as Catholic.

IF there is some overcount in certain largely agnostic European and Latin American countries, it is because agnostics and merely nominal Christians continue to register with their church, even if they only attend a couple times a year. This phenomenon is well-known in Protestant and evangelical churches, like the Baptists, Assemblies of God, etc.

It is the evangelical head counts which tend to be very exaggerated, actually. In Latin America, some churches claim millions of converts a year for 20 years, and still only have a few hundred-thousand registered members. They count as "converts" anyone who responds to an "altar call" (or similar event), regardless of how many times a person has previously responded to such a call, whether that person already belongs to another church and will continue to attend that church, or whether the person's conversion is like seed strewn on rocky ground, grows fast, and then withers for lack of roots.

[wallcrawlr]

oh come on...thats a little much.

remind me where the bicker free world lives?

[FLCowboy,]

If we work harder we can eradicate all those other blasphemous religions.

Surely you refer to only those "blasphemous" religions, while co-existing with all the other peasceful religions.

[traviskicks]

7. The domestic economic boom
8. Sandy Berger
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Especially Sandy Burgler... what a story.

[Calpernia]

Also overlooked:


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1551344/posts
Afghanistan: year in review

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518385/posts
Iraqi's Thank America (Wow, this is moving!)