> -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Montgomery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 9:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ZION] Nehors - was: Unconditional Love > > > At 07:49 AM 11/6/2003, you wrote: > > >So for the moment I will abide your claims above. Meantime, > please answer > >the key question I asked earlier: Give us specific examples of > > ... how > >secular humanism and athiesm are bigger threats to us today than > they were, > >say, a couple of hundred years ago.< Church membership is up. > Ditto church > >attendance. Ditto people who identify themselves as a member of a church. > > > >Ron > > Don't know if I can Ron. I think beliefs, attitudes and > philosophies (as in > many other things) go in cycles though. Just because Church attendance is > up today doesn't mean there will not be a resurgence of humanistic or > atheistic belief tomorrow. Besides--what's your point in asking?<
Although my memory is faulty, I recall a claim that we've lost or are losing our because of the rise of secular humanism, agnosticism, communism, athieism all the old bugaboos...when, in fact, the stats (I saw them a couple of weeks ago) suggest just the opposite. Therefore, your fear of a resurgence is not supported by history. We've been there, done that and survived quite nicely. To me such worries have a familiar John Birchian ring to them, no offense intended.
Ron Scott
Actually, I think history supports me quite nicely.
And I'll take the "John Birchian" comment as a compliment--thank you.
-- Steven Montgomery [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Editor, The Constitutional Broadside Newsletter http://www.thecbn.net
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