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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (186)	7/28/2005 11:32:51 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 520

I could be wrong, but depending on your perspective, this may be due to differences in Church in America and elsewhere. American church is very individualistic. Religion is defined in terms of a person's personal relationship with God, rather than in community terms. The TV evangelists, imo, border on entertainment more than religious sermon. But even if you consider that a sermon, it is indeed a very individualistic one delivered to you at your home and away from the community...almost all the emphasis is put on making you "feel" Christian rather than "act" Christian. I am not sure if this is because Americans are very individualistic and so the Church has had to tailor itself to this culture, or that this view of religion as a personal relationship has created a more individualistic society...perhaps both. On a different note, I found all the numbers very shocking. How can it be that 3 out of 4 Americans pray to God on daily basis, but I know of so few of them? I guess all the unfaithful have gathered in NYC...then again, the wildest girl I ever spent time with was in a choir. The first thing she did when we arrived in New Orleans for Mardi Gras, was to go to a (famous) church and talk to them about choir and music...after that, you never met a wilder woman in the whole party. Perhaps fittingly she ended the trip with a visit to the Cathedral...anyway...all these numbers are so confusing to me. Does anyone know what are the roots of Christian evangelism?

To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (186)	7/29/2005 9:51:31 AM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 520

The average religious person's lack of knowledge about what the bible actually says is staggering. Very, very few people actually bother to read it ... they feel it's important to have a copy in the house to ward off evil but when it comes to taking a couple of hours each week to pore through it most of them punt. One of my best friends is heavily catholic and likes to go on and on about the priests and the nuns ... just to throw him off track I like to bring up parts of the bible that he is totally unfamiliar with, he is generally quite surprised by them. Basic stuff like Isaac and Lot and Job that you would think every literate person is familiar with. I would be in favor of having bible studies as an elective in public schools just to increase the bibical literacy in this country.