George Washington's Prayer

[lucrezaborgia]

(12-16-2011 09:58 PM)Donb123 Wrote:  

(12-16-2011 09:48 PM)lucrezaborgia Wrote:  As for this not being "extraordinarily true" of non-Christian nations...where are you getting that information? Outside of the Middle-East and certain countries with a Muslim majority, what countries are hotbeds of intolerance?

http://markhumphrys.com/world.html

As always the answer is just a Google away.

lol

[lucrezaborgia]

(12-16-2011 10:09 PM)myotch Wrote:  I wouldn't say that countries that hold to Buddhism, Shintoism, etc., are exactly open to Christianity, though they may begrudgingly allow it.

Why do they have to be open to Christianity to tolerate it? They don't feel that their own religion is lacking and they don't care if other people are Christian.

[myotch]

Tolerance was what I meant. Sorry for being ambiguous.

[squiz]

Good article on the founding father's beliefs here: http://www.economist.com/node/21541718.

Sometimes I'm glad I come from a country where our founding fathers were a bunch of convicts and their jailers. Noone cares what their beliefs were.

[Yael]

(12-16-2011 11:06 AM)squiz Wrote:  

(12-15-2011 08:32 AM)Yael Wrote:  The atheists you speak of don't like my religion any better than yours, and in fact seem to think mine is just yours minus Jesus, which in their opinion makes it even worse!

I am a little disappointed in this attitude. I for one certainly don't consider Judaism to be worse than Christianity, and especially not for the reason given.

You are right to be disappointed. I lumped a whole group of people together rather than specifying exactly of whom I was speaking.
It would have been much more accurate for me to say, "Some of the atheists with whom I have interacted online do not like my religion any better than yours..."

My apologies and thank you for bringing this to my attention.