Thursday, November 26, 2009

Opinion

Discuss 'God Is Back' by Adrian Wooldridge and John Micklethwait

Posted April 24, 2009

Religion is reasserting itself globally, John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of The Economist, and Adrian Wooldridge, the magazine's Washington bureau chief, argue in God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World. The pair have coauthored four books, covering subjects like globalization, U.S. politics, and business. Wooldridge recently spoke to U.S . News about the religious revival's roots and implications. Join the discussion below.

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Religion is big business. The christians and jews for example run a non stop big budget propaganda machine.

Just because there are a lot of gullible people joining the ranks doesn't mean it suddenly has credibilty.

If 1,000,000 people suddenly said I believe the world was created by a giant pink rabbit - we have no proof of this but just believe me - even though all the real evidence absolutely proves eveything we have said is wrong, doesn't mean they have any credibility. Have your religion just stopping bothering us with your nutty beliefs. Pesonally I believe all religious people should be institutionalised for being mentally unbalanced. see the writer above - obviously a very sane individual.

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Religion doesn't just take place in the church! Some churches have announced that their numbers are declining, but the reason could be seen in just looking at the mega churches with tens of thousand of people in attendance. The far left would like nothing better than for churches to fail! They have already moved "In God We Trust" to the edge of our coins, moments of silence out of the classroom, nativity scenes from view of the public, and civics out of the classroom. Our public schools were once the foundation of our country's greatness by teaching patriotism in civics classes. Recently Chuck Schumer announced that American tradition is no more. We'll have to prove him wrong!

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