So true, 99% of the churches are no longer Bible thumpers, going to them is pointless.
I bet she’d be real fun at a speed dating event.
Curious. I’ve gone to church all my life, first as an Episcopalian, then as a Catholic, but I can’t remember a single incidence of Bible thumping.
What church did this idiot go to, to witness Bible thumpers?
I guess the author doesn’t realize, that “secular” is defined as anything outside the church from a Christian point of view.
Even a discussion outside the Church about something not Church Related is considered a “secular” discussion.
Example: Football, Food, etc..
Some people are so ignorant.
I do not believe the surveys that say Americans find homosexuality or "trans gender " or gay marriage acceptable. Most people know what the "PC answer is and give that so they will not be called bigots ... .. but in private conversations you still see the eyes roll...the snickers and the gay jokes.. people know it is a perversion ...
I stopped reading in the first paragraph.
Except it is wrong to argue from a perspective of “moral superiority. I’m probably more screwed up than a lot of atheists.
The issue is what happens right after I die.
One of the most glaring intellectual errors of the left is their belief that atheism, agnosticism and secularism generally are non religious.
New Age religion permeates them all, as it permeates the thinking of Amanda Marcotte.
OK, so we’re supposed to give up because a majority of Americans do not sit in a pew on Sunday. What else do Americans lie about?
On the average, we like salt, sugar, processed foods. We’d rather watch TV than do our mandatory 35 minutes of aerobic exercise each day. We like to drive above the speed limit. We hate to come to full stop at stop signs.
So if we should discard religion as a force for moral good because we aren’t as pious as we like to think we are, then how many other things should be discarded because we don’t do them 100% of the time that we should or that we claim we do them?
—It’s a narrative that is fundamentally wrong. Yes, the majority of Americans identify technically as Christians, but a deeper look at how our people act, believe, and think shows that we’re not at all a “Christian nation,” but a largely secular nation that suffers a small but vocal minority of theocracy-minded conservatives. And not just that, but that the secular-minded majority is getting even bigger and more secular all the time.—
All true, I have to admit. But then again, maybe that’s why our economy, culture, and world respect is in a flat spin.
When I can’t get past the first sentence without reading “Bible thumpers” I don’t see much point in continuing.
“you start to get what looks very little like a ‘Christian nation’ and very much like a secular one”
Does the writer truly miss that her words demonstrate her view that in its transition into a secular nation, America necessarily comes from Christian origin?
More media word play with bogus assumptions and conclusions. There’s LOTS of home-schooled ‘Bible-thumpers’ who don’t go to church, and even more shy of the ‘thumper’ level who are Christians nonetheless!
So here’s the deal Amanda:
There is nothing more violent in the meme’s of human thought than secularism.
If the 20th century had anything cogent to say to us all here in the 21st century it is this:
Secularism kills!
The idea that theists of various stripes owe you or some facsimile of the Enlightenment an apology is to pretend that the world was not created 5000 years ago, but yesterday.
When we think about the fadish death as text beheading, let’s remember who invented the guillotine.
It was your bigoted hate filled anti-christian intellectuals of the French Revolution.
Mao and Stalin killed over 100 million people this past century on the intellectual and academic premise that religion is primitive and archaic.
Public sensational killings are not simply tolerated by the secular— they are the celebrated signature.
Christianity uniquely critiques the killing of the innocent and says a Resurrection stands between the statist fantasy of genocidal fed obedience and a world of human liberty.
Rule one of Creation which these self important are too blind to see: You will serve Heaven or you will serve Hell. There is no in between.
Why not be closed on Friday or Thursday or any other day... is being closed on Sunday an endorsement of Christian religion?...
With Saturday close second endorsing the judeo-christian days of rest and worship....
You don't see as closed on Islam Friday to you?
and what's the atheist official day of rest... Wednesday?
we gotta change these days of the week the government's close otherwise it's an endorsement of the Christian and Judeo Christian religion can't have that
It's just not happening.
Is she going to tell Asian Americans to stop whining about not being let into prestigious universities at a rate commensurate with their high school accomplishments?
Is she going to tell African Americans to stop blaming everything on The Man use and riots to extort money from the public trough?
Is she going to tell Muslims to stop their Halal practices that cause animals to suffer?
What does she have to fear from this ever-shrinking minority of Christians? That one or two insurance companies might not help her pay for condoms? That a few schools might not hire her as a teacher? That a few churches might not allow her to marry her girlfriend? That one or two bakeries might not supply cupcakes for her gay cousin's wedding reception?
The horrors!