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Originally Posted by Maximilian
I've been asking myself that question: What the hell.... errr.. what does this have to do with hell?
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You probably don't get it. The "culture" makes up all kinds of notions of heaven and hell. The liberals praise the use of profanity. People joke about isues to be taken with seriousness.
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New Testament 'sado-masochistic doctrine'
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Richard Dawkins
Controversial scientist and evolutionist Richard Dawkins, dubbed "Darwin's Rottweiler," calls religion a "virus" and faith-based education "child abuse" in a two-part series he wrote and appears in that begins airing on the UK's Channel 4, beginning tomorrow evening.
Dawkins, using his visit to Colorado Springs' New Life Church, criticizes conservative U.S. evangelicals and warns his audience of the influence of "Christian fascism" and "an American Taliban."
The backdrop of the al-Aqsa mosque and an American-born Jew turned fundamentalist Muslim who tells Dawkins to prepare for the Islamic world empire – and who clashes with him after saying he hates atheists – rounds out the first program's case for the delusions of the faithful.
In part two, "The Virus of Faith," Dawkins attacks the teaching of religion to children, calling it child abuse.
"Innocent children are being saddled with demonstrable falsehoods," he says. "It's time to question the abuse of childhood innocence with superstitious ideas of hellfire and damnation. Isn't it weird the way we automatically label a tiny child with its parents' religion?"
"Sectarian religious schools," Dawkins asserts, have been "deeply damaging" to generations of children.
Dawkins, who makes no effort to disguise his atheism and contempt for religion, focuses on the Bible, too
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http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48252
In seeker sensitive movements, we don't want to tell people anything that is sensitive?
Public Prayer and praise of THE Lord Jesus Christ are trouble. Profanity is not.
Preeching on hell is a sticky topic.
I don't suggest annointed pastors change their sermons to tickle the ears of the lost.