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Jim__

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5. I don't see the connection between your first link and its text.

Reply to MisterP (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 15, 2015, 03:00 PM

Sep 2015

The text states: they've been predicting the imminent end of religiosity a decade or two away since the 1870s, but the link is to your post titled: interestingly science education has this odd cyclic "crisis pattern" where regular panics - which doesn't talk about anyone predicting the end of religiosity. Am I missing something?

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Atheist Pastor: the Future of Religion is Much Too Bright [View all] rug Sep 2015 OP

That's because religion preys on people in distress. AtheistCrusader Sep 2015 #1

She cut off your foreskin? Wow, that's horrible. Starboard Tack Sep 2015 #2

Not at the same time. AtheistCrusader Sep 2015 #7

So, why is he still preaching it? rug Sep 2015 #4

Can you elaborate? I don't grok the question. AtheistCrusader Sep 2015 #6

"Even parents whom I esteem as fully �secular� will come to me to have their infants baptized." rug Sep 2015 #9

that's the problem with "stadialism": if Comte and Tylor predicted it but it didn't come true, MisterP Sep 2015 #3

I don't see the connection between your first link and its text. Jim__ Sep 2015 #5

double dicks! that wasn't even the right self-repost MisterP Sep 2015 #8

Thanks for the updated link. Jim__ Sep 2015 #10