"is this, this is it?...

Whutt???

re: " "the great falling away?""
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Nah!  This is just a little taste of "What goes around... comes around!"  In the vernacular it's quoted as "You reap what you sow" and for centuries the pious followers of Christianity have been sowing hate, discord, slavery, and death.  It's hard to find much sorrow in my heart for the followers of a system with such a horrendous history.
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Betty

re: " "the great falling away?"".Nah!  This is just a little taste of "What goes around... comes around!"  In the vernacular it's quoted as "You reap what you sow" and for centuries the pious followers of Christianity have been sowing hate, discord, slavery, and death.  It's hard to find much sorrow in my heart for the followers of a system with such a horrendous history..Betty

-bettypickering1

Wut you jus said

I suppose if Muslims are allowed to use their prayer rugs at work there might be grounds for feelings of discrimination!

The christians interviewed and many observers of this religious turmoil either fail to recognise exactly what is happening here or they hide their hypocrisy in piety.
 
The phenomenon is almost world-wide but is managed most successfully in muslim nations where apostasy is punishable by death.
 
Christians are bemoaning the challenge to their own claimed right to discriminate. The case they are mounting against that challenge is the conscious choice to impose holy conflict over secular peace.
Centuries of entrenched christian protestant custom are being questioned by an increasingly skeptical society. Its entrenched right to discriminate is being recognised for what it really is, a cancerous deep-seated bigotry built upon the corpses and drenched in the blood of non-christians'
 
Biggles, Prime 

a while back (years ago) i kinda used ta wonder when the world would begin to blame the christians for the troubles of the world or whatever... 'n i thought nah!, that couldn't come to be...  well damn darn heck!, i guess  i was wrong... 
 
kinda like that guy who fiddled while rome was burning 'n blamed the christians...  ah well, good ole man always needs a scapegoat to hide from the truth... it's man's greed 'n the political leaders the rich sayin behind closed doors "let them eat cake!" 'n somehow slithering their slippery pinchy little asses out of any blame!...
 
'n anyone with half a brain knows it ain't religion!, it's all mens desire for power 'n control !...
 
secular politics hide behind religion whenever they can!...
 
'n ya know that just as well as i!... 'n if ya don't, then i've given ya more credit than ya deserve!

But JYP, it has been mostly Christianity, Islam, and (earlier) Judaism, that have used religion as a means for power and control. You simple don't find that in religions such as Buddhism, Tao, and a few more obscure religions. So it seems fitting and fair, to blame those religions. When I hear christians proclaim proudly their "fear of God", I think to myself, "the only deity that needs your fear, would be something evil".

 skafie one eye!....  says:    When I hear christians proclaim proudly their "fear of God", I think to myself, "the only deity that needs your fear, would be something evil".
 
jy says:
 
skafi'kins, "i see that more clearly when using the word i prefer for god!... "the fear of truth! is the beginning of wisdom!"... wh'da say ta that?... 'n truth is, "man does fear the whole truth!", but will not admit it!... 

JYP:
fear of truth! is the beginning of wisdom!"... wh'da say ta that?... 'n truth is, "man does fear the whole truth!", but will not admit it!... 
 
So Buddists, Hindus, Taoists and a myriad of other religions that teach learning, not subderviance to fear have it all wrong?
I disagree.

so you disagree!...
 
no problem, but it does not change the fact that man is afraid of the truth! and will not admit he is!...

I do not fear "truth" but when it's found is likely not to be TRUTH after all!

'n anyone with half a brain knows it ain't religion!, it's all mens desire for power 'n control !...

And anyone with half a brain knows that power is most complete when religion is the medium by which that power is gained!

'n ya know that just as well as i!... 'n if ya don't, then i've given ya more credit than ya deserve!

I'll worry about that about as long as it takes me to turn off my computer.
 
And as for humankind fearing truth......utter piffle! You claim to have cornered the market on it, do you? There are lots of crazies who think they have the TRUTH.
 
Biggles, Prime

jyp,
the same subject has been raised here in oz.....
referred as a "time bomb"
which it surely is!
There are already signs of unrest here.
I wonder where all the "do gooders" will run to when the shit hits the fan as it surely will.
...and the shit is mounting

I have no doubt someone is recording their names......

Biggles,
you fear the truth.
I have seen it often .

Many of you need to consider that our way of life is built on Christianity....

Many of you need to consider that our way of life is built on Christianity....

-achildoftheuniverse

Which was built on Judaism.

aCotU #16 "Many of you need to consider that our way of life is built on Christianity...."
Anthropal #17 "Which was built on Judaism."
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Which is the codification and legitimization of misogyny.
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"[...] The "message" of the Judaeo-Christian creation myth, recounted in the Biblical story of Genesis 1-3, shows a particular conception of the origins of humankind. It is claimed that God created man in his own likeness, was given dominion over "every living thing", and leave to subdue the earth with his offspring. Equally significant is the prominence given to men; God is male and his most important creation is male. The story stresses the primacy of man and the centrality of his place in the universe, while making it clear that women play a subordinate role. The story also recounts how the woman, whom Adam subsequently named Eve, was disobedient and succumbed to temptation the result of which was the expulsion of both Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden..."
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/eve-women/
1evewomen.html
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My excerpt is from the first installment of the series EVE and the Identity of Women by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe.  It holds promise to convincingly refute the spurious ad hoc charges that my views are merely "romanticized" imaginings of a mythical "hunter/gatherer" past where females were not subject to the petty tyrannies of males -- today's status quo.
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I feel that what I said in post #3 bears repeating: "It's hard to find much sorrow in my heart for the followers of a system with such a horrendous history."  It's a fact that misogyny permeates the whole of Western culture; the fact that it is accepted as "natural" is unconscionable.
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Betty

It's hard to find much sorrow in my heart for the followers of a system with such a horrendous history.

I have much sorrow for the poor brainwashed people. Or any group or organization that convince people to do horrific things. They thought they were doing the right things, but, Hitler thought he was doing the right thing. We all think we are doing the right things, at least to the most part.

The people that actually fullfill these acts are so obviously brainwashed and deluded. Large corporations take advantage of certain people. People that are looking to belong, looking for a purpose. Very sad. sad sad.

I couldn't imagine getting conditioned to the point of murdering somebody for personal gain. 

Many of you need to consider that our way of life is built on Christianity....

-achildoftheuniverse