Comments on: Study: Why Are Evangelical Kids Abandoning Jesus?

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:19:08 +0000

The Bible is what Men thought God would say if he were to speak to them.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:56:36 +0000

Read your Bible. Adam lived 900+ years after eating the fruit. God told him that if he ate the fruit, he would die in that same day.

Did he? Nope.

The serpent told Eve she would gain knowledge of right and wrong. Did she? Yep.

Who told the truth?

By: jolly

jolly — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:40:50 +0000

So Adam and Eve are still kicking it? Oh wait, they did die. Both physically and spiritually.

By: Truthwins

Truthwins — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:26:53 +0000

Or is it because of This?

By: Truthwins

Truthwins — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:41:37 +0000

May be children are away from Jesus because This know this too.

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:05:21 +0000

What really drives fundamentalist/evangelical kids away from religion is the excessive indoctrination you get growing up in a family that devoted to religion. The willfull lying about scientific facts , the fixation on mostly sexual sin combined with the frightening desire to gain control of American society caused me to lose all faith. Folks who grew up in more moderate faiths are more likely to remain Christians. The answer is not more rigid indoctrination but less, and also keep you’r kids from studying government in school, high school civics class makes dominionisim look evil-but of course, it is.

By: Alec

Alec — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:32:50 +0000

First of all – What Ham is talking about is obscene regardless of religious stripe.

I too lost my religion through Sunday School. A little light went off in my head when we got to the Jonah story and after that I asked questions and never got answers. A few more weeks and the teachers sent me home with a notre requesting of my mother not to send me anymore because I was “disruptive”. I answered truthfully as to why I was being difficult and the word “heathen” came into use around our house.

If evengelicals want to retain their kids the only option is to keep bibles out of their hands entirely or to hand them a Vulgate version. The children should never be allowed to read the old testament. Christians should promote the idea that the old testament is a Jewish mythology and that Jeezuz came to set the record straight. Drop the creationist nonsense as Jeezuz said nothing about the creation of the world, at least nothing recorded in the Book.

Look, I have nothing against Christians as I know several and those that follow the new testament are quite good people. It’s the ones that decide to believe both books, which are mutually exclusive, that cause all of the trouble.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:07:22 +0000

“Do you think he lies to us?”

Yes as a matter of fact. In Genesis God tells Adam and Eve that if they eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil “surely you will die”

guess what? They didn’t.
Even if it was lying with good intent, lying is still lying.

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:09:15 +0000

If only it were so simple.

The genealogy of Jesus written in the Bible traces his descendants back 38 generations to Adam. Assuming a generation is 40 years, the Earth was only 1520 years old when Jesus lived. Let’s get really charitable and say that every one of the 38 generations up to Jesus was as long as the life of the oldest man in the Bible, Methuselah, who allegedly lived to be 969 years old. If this is the case then the Earth was only 36,822 years old when Jesus lived.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:11:48 +0000

They just need to believe that humans and dinosaurs co-existed, and that the universe is several thousand years younger than recorded civilizations predating Judaism.

No problem, right?

As Ham says, either the Bible is true, or it’s not. There’s no halfway about it.