Jesus did not come to condemn the world because we were already condemned. We remain so unless we repent and believe in Him. John 3:17
— Tony Perkins (@tperkins) May 12, 2015
And:
“God Will Abundantly Pardon” — New #Lab from John Piper: http://t.co/GCVTxBY59e
— Desiring God (@desiringGod) May 12, 2015
Because y’all are no damn good, y’all were born no damn good, y’all can never be anything but no damn good, and if y’all regard yourselves and your lives with anything but uninhibited self-loathing and disgust, then y’all are r-e-e-e-a-l-l-y no damn good — and that’s that.
You can try to gloss-over Original Sin, or ignore it outright, but the fact remains: Original Sin is Christianity’s indispensable metaphysical claim; without it, Christianity has nothing on offer but an ordinary — except when very bad and cult-like — set of ethical teachings.
I suppose it might have seemed reasonable to believe in Christianity — or, at least, to exercise caution and make the pretense — a few hundred years ago, before science and Biblical scholarship really got going, but educated and thinking adults do know today — and know with incontestable certainty — that Christianity is untrue. There was no unhappy event involving a talking snake and a bad piece of fruit, and there is no such thing as Original Sin. Today, Original Sin is simply a tool (mis)used by cynics to exploit the insecure.
Good News! Word is getting around, and all but the loonies are fleeing religion.
According to the latest PEW Survey …
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Evangelical Protestants … declining.
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Catholics … declining.
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Mainline Protestants … declining.
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Nones … GROWING.
Though I do believe that education has the decisive part in this, I don’t believe that’s all of it. I think the contemptible behavior of evangelical leaders like James Dobson and Bryan Fischer has played a part. Seriously: A civil war over same-sex marriage? Are they out of their minds?
What decent, thinking adult wants to be associated with them?