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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 05/23/2008 : 04:51:32
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The Coral Ridge Ministries, a Flordia-based (where else?) hive of holy-rollers (as in "Rolling you like a drunken sailor and making you like it") led by one Dr. D. James Kennedy is running a survey concerning everybody's spiritual health. The results are interesting in that the real threat to spiritual health is Coral Ridge Ministries & Dr. D. James Kennedy, and others of the ilk. Here's a piece of the current results:
"Results of Coral Ridge Ministries'
2008 Annual Spiritual State of the Nation Survey*
America's Spiritual Health
1. Are you concerned that our country on a whole is abandoning biblical values?
[89] Yes [1] No [10] Undecided
2. How dangerous are the following to the spiritual health of America?
Very Somewhat Not very
The ACLU and similar groups 96 3 1
Pro-homosexual indoctrination 95 4 1
Abortion 93 6 1
Islamic terrorism 91 8 1
Hollywood 89 10 1
News Media 87 12 1
Darwinism/evolution 85 14 1
Cults and false religion 82 16 2
Atheism 82 16 2
Courts 81 18 1
Apathetic/uninformed Christians 79 20 1
Colleges and Universities 78 21 1
Public education (K-12) 69 29 2
Congress 63 35 2
3. Is it too late for a spiritual revival in this nation?
[1] Yes [90] No [9] Undecided
4. If “no,” how influential are the following institutions to lead such a revival?"
& so forth. I found this cannonball at PZ's Place, where he expresses a great disappointment that Atheists are ranked at #9 on the list. I agree; we should be at the top or at least somewhere near the top 'cause we enjoy a spiritual health uninfected by the likes of soul-sucking ministries such as the one featured here. That could spread amongst the intellectual community and others with the ability to read & comprehend, and we just can't have that, now can we?
But, if we can't be at the top, we can at least be among those who are. Become a card-carrying member of the ACLU and piss Kennedy & his drooling dreamers of a utopian, pre-Renaissance society off even further.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2008 : 07:08:39 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Apathetic/uninformed Christians 79 20 1
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Emphasis mine... and my irony-meter just got fried.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
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"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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TG
Skeptic Friend
USA
121 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2008 : 09:24:51 [Permalink]
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| D. James Kennedy is dead, but Coral Ridge is still about as fundamentalist as a non-denominational church can get. I'm not sure who's running the asylum now that the big cheese is kaput. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 05/23/2008 : 10:09:14 [Permalink]
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"If they don't like it, they can get out."
Man it's fun to be like them. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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America's spiritual health....
