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...it hasn't stopped teen pregnancies, drugs, violence, and so much more.
That's not the job of the school system. Christianity hasn't been able to stop teen pregnancies within their own congregations. Christianity hasn't been able to stop their own members from using drugs, violence, stealing, etc. If Christians are supposedly the cream of the crop, why expect more from the supposedly "unenlightened"?
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it is your choice but remember the believer is under the mandate to preach the gospel to every creature, the atheist is NOT under any such command and has no authority to force their ways on anyone.
This is why it is good for the religion free to understand the reality of the Bible. They can understand what is really in the book, as opposed to what has developed through tradition and dogma. The Christian isn't really under that command either.
Mark 16:15
He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.
The earliest manuscripts and some other ancient witnesses do not have this mandate. The "good news" in one gospel isn't necessarily the same as another.
Christians don't have the authority to
force their ways on anyone either. What we know of Jesus doesn't give us that example.
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oh please. you obviously are not reading the works of hitchins, dawkins, hawking, and so many other atheists out there. christianity is the most attacked religion and the Bible is the most attacked book an dit is the atheist leading the way.
Then Christians are obsessed with atheist writings.
I don't see that atheists in general are obsessed with the Bible. By looking at this debate board one would think that Christians are obsessed with evolution and in reality, that isn't the case. Churches I've been to never address it. Evolution doesn't come up in conversations. I personally don't even debate evolution on this board.
I think some Christians feel threatened because people are trying to reign in expressions of Christianity in zones that should be neutral in a country that is not a theocracy. They are asking no more from Christianity than they do from other religions.
If you still feel that atheists in general are obsessed with the Bible, you need to show some evidence outside your own opinion to support that position.
The Savior said There is no sin, but it is you who make sin when you do the things that are like the nature of adultery, which is called sin. --Gospel of Mary
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