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Yorktown

(2,884 posts)
Wed May 20, 2015, 02:55 AM May 2015

O'Reilly: Christianity's decline could lead to collapse of USA

He hits all the possible points: religion is going down because of music and drugs (he skipped sex, that's sloppy) while claiming the Founding Fathers did not want the US to be secular (see quotes below)

O'Reilly: "Although the founding fathers wanted freedom of religion, they did not want a secular nation. That’s clear in the writings of Jefferson and Madison. The founders believing that a strong moral code put forth by religion protects people from harm and avarice."

Video transcript: http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/05/13/oreilly-christianitys-decline-in-america-could-lead-to-collapse-like-roman-empire/

Enjoy the whole rant:



O'Reilly: "Although the founding fathers wanted freedom of religion, they did not want a secular nation."





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DetlefK

(16,670 posts)
3. The concept of "sin" doesn't work without an authority-figure.
Wed May 20, 2015, 05:28 AM
May 2015

A deed isn't a sin for legal reasons. "Sin" only exists in the context of external morals you are FORCED to follow.

Have you ever told yourself "I will quit smoking. From now on, smoking is sin." ?
No, you didn't. Because you don't have the right to declare sins with respect to your behavior. Only the authorities ruling you have that right.


The solution is very easy: No God, no sin.
If you no longer follow God, all your sins stop being sins.

 

Yorktown

(2,884 posts)
4. But, but, but... Ravi Zakarias says we must believe because we are sinners.
Wed May 20, 2015, 05:40 AM
May 2015

Someone has been trying to convert me lately. Gave me two books to read.

Those apologetics books are daft to the extreme. And it would seem we must believe.

And that those who don't have no hope, but want to sin. Wasn't real?

 

orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)
7. The US is collapsing with God ,and I want to sin, Thank God
Wed May 20, 2015, 05:14 PM
May 2015

for Checks & Balances or I'd Go to hell, and it's the lack of Checks & Balances why we're Collapsing, too many Ass Heads like Bilo usurping expertise by talking all patriarchal, old pervert .

 

Yorktown

(2,884 posts)
8. OK then, ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis in nomine Dawkins et Spiritu Hitchens
Wed May 20, 2015, 06:32 PM
May 2015

There you go, your sins have just been washed away.

 

Yorktown

(2,884 posts)
10. Well, if you don't want to be called a heretic, don't ask pesky questions.
Wed May 20, 2015, 07:46 PM
May 2015

Leave the holy details to us, the high priests of the Church of Dawkins, may his son Hitchens be blessed.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
5. In a way it's nice to see these idiot RWers make their gloom-and-doom predictions.
Wed May 20, 2015, 06:33 AM
May 2015

Makes it funnier when they fail to come true. Like all the warnings about marriage equality.

However what's not funny is the RW rubes who follow these idiots - they forget about these failed predictions completely and stand ready to embrace whatever the next end-of-the-world crisis is.

 

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)
6. Did Bill's Christianity prevent his sexual harassment? Compulsive lying? Domestic abuse?
Wed May 20, 2015, 07:02 AM
May 2015

Fuck you, Bill.

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