Would the World be Better off Without Religion?

You confuse faith with credulity

My faith relies on neither hope of reward nor desire for license.
Anecdotal and circumstantial evidence does not seem to be considered evidence in this thread, so I am where I am.

Chuckling under my breath over what passes for truth.

So, the promise of living forever in paradise has no bearing on your faith?

What passes for truth that makes you chuckle?

Christian group says the world will be permanently ‘annihilated’ on Wednesday

ile our planet may have survived September’s “blood moon”, it will be permanently destroyed on Wednesday, 7 October, a Christian organization has warned.

The eBible Fellowship, an online affiliation headquartered near Philadelphia, has based its prediction of an October obliteration on a previous claim that the world would end on 21 May 2011. While that claim proved to be false, the organization is confident it has the correct date this time.

“According to what the Bible is presenting it does appear that 7 October will be the day that God has spoken of: in which, the world will pass away,” said Chris McCann, the leader and founder of the fellowship, an online gathering of Christians headquartered in Philadelphia.

“It’ll be gone forever. Annihilated.”

McCann said that, according to his interpretation of the Bible, the world will be obliterated “with fire”.

The blood moon – a lunar eclipse combined with a “super moon” – occurred without event on 27 September. This was despite some predictions that it would herald the beginning of the apocalypse. Certain religious leaders had said the blood moon would trigger a chain of events that could see our planet destroyed in as little as seven years time.

According to this new prediction, however, there will be no stay of execution. On the day of 7 October, the world will end.

“God destroyed the first earth with water, by a flood, in the days of Noah. And he says he’ll not do that again, not by water. But he does say in 2nd Peter 3 that he’ll destroy it by fire,” McCann said.
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InfraBlue wrote:

What passes for truth that makes you chuckle?

Seems to me that you can make the Bible say whatever you want it to say:

If scientists were that wrong that often, they'd be out of a job. But the religitards keep plugging along, unhindered by basic reasoning or their history of abject failures

They will get their day in front of the Boss when the time comes though.

More claim. Still waiting for evidence.

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More claim. Still waiting for evidence.

Don't hold your breath. "For no man knoweth the hour..."

A long time ago I heard a programme about doomsday cults on Radio 4. Strangely enough, when the predicted end of the world fails to materialise membership actually goes up. They couldn't really explain why, but thought it might be viewed as a second chance to grasp 'salvation.'

People aren't rational.