Just as one is stuck in a thick mud and the only way to get out is to leave behind the boots , the religious conandrums are solved by leaving religion behind , so be polite please , this a hand of help to our fellow humans .
Add your logic contributions .
1) The Designer circle : denying Evolution and accepting a 'designer' means the designer itself Must have been designed by another designer Because it could not Evolve by itself to the status of a designer ( god ) .
2) judge the 'creator' by its gory creations : consider the design process for the Prey/Predator animal kindom where most where designed to kill others in order to ... survive ! Than move to the human serial killers , etc.
3) perfection is not shared : if the designer could be Perfect than designing the human body was ... malicious ! At least the farts could have smell like roses never mind the waste of the energy packed Methane ...
4) The 'what goes around comes around ' effect : religious people deny all other religions but their own , therefore all religions are mutually nulled BY THEIR OWN FOLLOWERS with the net effect of invalidating all religions !
5) the snake-oil-salesman effect : if , for example , the Iranian Clerics , the top religious leaders , would really believe in allah than they should not Question allah's Protection and therefore should not have a military !
But because they spend a lot on the military , like most other religious countries , they are insulting allah by not Trusting him .
Further more , they don't consider that the infidels are also the creation of allah , so Why interfeer ?? Do the Iranian/etc. Clerics REALLY believe that allah could not handle its own creations , the infidels , hence it needed 'help' from Iran ??
6) the Crucifiction Soap Opera : as we are told gods know the future , they don't die and don't feel pain , so Christ ( with no pain from the 'ordeal' ) and his father both knew the outcome of the Crucifiction making the process a farce .
7) the personal choice deceit : if gods know the future they also know Your choice hence in your life you can not possibly arrive to a different choice , by ... design !
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Quoting: @ist 33594769 Read between the lines on this major Demographics shift : the whites are giving up religion , they saw it , experienced it and now are garbageing it !! Ata-a-human !
Nearly half of the church’s worldwide followers now come from Latin America. With a population of nearly 200 million, Brazil is the largest Catholic country in the world.
The church is growing rapidly in Asia too, with major population centres in the Philippines, China and India.
However, it is Africa where the Catholic Church is seeing its most spectacular growth. Over the past century, the numbers of Catholics on the continent have grown from some two million in 1900 to a present day figure of 180 million.
By the year 2025, the African church is projected to rise to 230 million, when one in six Catholics worldwide will be African.
In the space of one hundred years, the balance of demographic power in the Catholic Church, in terms of its ordinary membership, has swung diametrically.
Whereas before, three-quarters of the church’s followers resided in Europe and North America, today more than 70 per cent of the world’s Catholics are living in Africa, Asia and Central, South America ...
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