You realise every single religious belief is a minority belief, right?
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Only 33% of Earth people are Christian. Why is Christianity a minority on Earth?
- Thread starter Alix C. Toulme Jr.
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You realise every single religious belief is a minority belief, right?
The stats were world wide, not American. The world is different to America in quite a number of ways.
exchemist
Veteran Member
Ah, so something for eyeball-rolling peasants, then. I see.
rational experiences
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The information in any order involves scientific theisms.
So it's all the same.
Claiming what is Christianity isn't just about a namesake. It's about using the advice in text also.
So it's all the same.
Claiming what is Christianity isn't just about a namesake. It's about using the advice in text also.
Your number is incorrect. ~33% of religious people on earth are Christian. The percentage is much smaller when you include non-religious people.
Doubtful. I don't think ET was Christian.
Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
Because not everyone on earth is going to follow. Most have other equally valid beliefs and pathways. A growing number even have no belief in gods or religion.
Huh?
Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
Spielberg is sort of his creative paternal unit. Maybe he was Jewish? I dunno.
ronki23
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The Earth's population is almost 8 billion so 1 third of 8 billion is 2.6 billion. No other religion has this many adherents: the next biggest religion is Islam with 2 billion.
If the World Population was 7 billion then Islam has 1.8 billion adherents but that's still less than Christianity's 2 billion.
If the World Population was 7 billion then Islam has 1.8 billion adherents but that's still less than Christianity's 2 billion.
What if extraterrestrial aliens (from UFOs) bring their religion to earth. Should we continue to insist that our religion is right? Should we hear what they have to say? What if they are like the Christians of the Dark Ages who torture and kill those who don't believe as they do? They might have Salem Witch Trials that kill people if they are witches, and kill people if they are not witches too (at least they make sure that all of the witches are dead)?
Would we accept alien religion, at least until we can acquire their technology?
It seems unthinkable that God would make His presence known only in a tiny area of earth, and only on earth (assuming that other life exists in the universe).
What if aliens use religion, as it was used by Father Junipero Serra (and other missionaries) to scare people into enslavement?
What if aliens convince their voters that killing is fine (though it violates God's laws)? That happened here on earth (wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and attempted wars in North Korea and Niger). For more info about the proposed war in Niger, Google Ambassador Wilson and wife Plame).
Would aliens take over their planet's politics with their religion? Would they take over our politics? Would alien religion be any worse than earth religion at running the world? Pollution, debt, homelessness, torture camps, wars, etc?
Spielberg is sort of his creative paternal unit. Maybe he was Jewish? I dunno.
Can E.T. be the greatest Jewish film ever made? | National Post
According to the website, above, others have wondered if ET was a Jewish film.
In some ways, it mirrors the holocaust. An ET flees a government intent on jailing and examining him. They might want to dissect him?
The website also compares it to Schindler's List. I listened to a lecture about Schindler's List, by a man who was a little boy in his factory. When I asked if it was possible that Schindler was just a Nazi who hired Jewish slaves to make bombs for the war effort, he responded that the weaponry was defective (hard to believe that Hitler, as thorough as he was, would allow anyone to goof off under his command). He also said that Oscar Schindler would take kids aside and give them a piece of candy and assure them that they would not die, and that everything would be alright. To me, it seemed that Schindler (who posed in pictures with Hitler) was schmoozing with the powerful, and getting the workers on his side by pretending to be nice. He said that it is possible that he was wrong about Schindler, but he didn't think so. Tattooed (numbers on their arm from concentration camps) Jewish women agreed that Schindler was a good man.
Spielberg says childhood anti-Semitism made him ‘ashamed of being Jewish’
Speilburg said that he was proud of being Jewish until he was picked on by those on power trips (ie Nazis), then he was ashamed.
We should never be ashamed because of the way others treat us. They have the problems, we don't.
With covid, that would be critical mass (amount of nuclear material squeezed sufficiently close to detonate an atomic bomb).
According to the bible, the endtimes began with the war in Iraq. That would make Bush (Sr.) the Dragon, W. Bush (son of the Dragon) the Beast, and, according to Revelation 17:18, the nation that defeated, occupied, and corrupted Iraq was the most powerful nation on earth, and called the Whore of Babylon.
I notice that a lot of preachers confuse the corruption to Babylon and they call Babylon the Whore of Babylon. The United States is the Whore of Babylon.
The bible even makes it clear that President Bill Clinton was between the administrations of Bush Sr. and W. Bush. The administration that was, and is no more, is again.
Truth in love
Well-Known Member
There are a lot of historical issues. Nations banning it and killing those who practice it tops my list (A crime Christians have committed too).
2 billion is a lot of people. There has been another religion as successful as Christianity in the history of mankind.
However, ET disclosure will not increase the number Christians, it may even decrease it. In fact, one of the main reasons for the ET cover up may have been to preserve Christianity. Nelson Rockefeller was one of the main persons involved in the ET cover up and he was a Christian evangelist.
Riders
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I have read that one day Muslims may outnumber Christians and America will be a Muslim country.
Some people fear Communism. They imagine Communists taking over the United States.
But didn't the Religious Right do exactly that?
The Religious Right are Christians, and they:
1. Disrespect the separation of Church and State
2. Want to end the teaching of evolution in schools
3. They want to teach creationism in in public schools.
4. They want to do away with public schools, and replace them with churches.
5. They want to take welfare money out of the hands of the government and turn it over to private churches.
6. They fight against abortion (even if there are reasons for it).
7. They want to end the distribution of condoms at schools, even though it has been shown that they prevent unwanted pregnancies (unwanted babies) and stop STDs like AIDS. They claim that giving out condoms condones sex among young people.
8. They want to restrict what we read (Wizard of Oz is about black magic, Harry Potter is about evil magic), yet they accept the Skull and Bones caldrons of toes of frogs, eyes of newts, and Latin incantations of Prescott Bush, son George Bush, and grandson W. Bush (last two were presidents and members of the Religious Right, in order to get votes). They want to restrict what music we listen to (no goth, etc). They want to restrict free speech (Cancel Culture in forums, which they did with Trump and Mike Lindell, whose products are banned at various large websites). They want to spy on the internet, on emails, on snail mails, and on phones (Google Eric Snowden for more details). They want the government to use psychics to spy on average citizens (Project MKULTRA, highly funded by George Bush, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former president). They want to ban campaigns (W. Bush tried to get sedition laws back which would have prevented Senator John Kerry from talking about the torture camps of W. Bushl during the campaign).
9. They want perpetual wars for peace (fighting evil is the same as a holy war against the middle east....a holy jihad).
10. They want fatwas (Mafia style hits) against key people in the Middle East (including Saddam Hussein, and sons).
11. They wanted (and got) the unpatriotic Patriot Act, which allowed them to pick up anyone, hold them indefinitely, without a lawyer, and all that was motivated by the 911 attack.
12. The Religious Right might have plotted the 911 attack. After all their think tank (Project for a New Century)(PNAC) suggested that we need a new Pearl Harbor attack to get Americans behind the wars that they sought with the so-called Axis of Evil. Isn't the 911 attack similar to Pearl Harbor? Wasn't it strange that W. Bush said that the 911 attack was a test of terrorist hijacking and that they should ignore it? It was the only test that had ever been done, and it occurred during the 911 attack.
13. The Religious Right wanted to pack the Supreme Court (which eventually decided that W. Bush was the president, despite an abundance of election irregularities. Among the tally hassles in Tallahassee, were double ballots, butterfly ballots, valid voters excluded because their names were similar to illegal aliens or criminals, and rumors of dogs and dead people voting. Isn't it odd that they were favored by 104% of the voters in some locations? I thought that 100% was the maximum (it used to be). Brother Jeb promised that Florida would elect W. Bush, but did he cheat?
14. The Religious Right wants to have torture camps and wars, and won't allow anyone who is not a member of the National Rifle Association to be elected. By the way, the pope is on the enemies list of the NRA. Since when is Christianity about wars and killing?
I could go on with this list, but you get the picture.
President W. Bush was told that a Brazilian was killed in Iraq, and he said that was a very large number. (joke)
ronki23
Well-Known Member
Propaganda
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
My hope is that advanced extraterrestrials would not disclose anything so paltry and instead provide us with a way to make decaffeinated coffee taste as good as regular.