I wonder what the breakup of the unaffiliated is.
It could range over a large number of groups who are not organised religions such as satanists, wiccans, new age, to athiests etc.
If a large number of the unaffiliated are just “pagan”; @Patrick and @sfmatheson might not be so enthused… can one read “unaffiliated” as “humanist”?
I rather doubt if Wiccans are included in “unaffiliated”. The problem is that the OP article gave no consideration to non-Christian religions – a gap that I believe I’ve already complained about.
What else would they identify themselves as?
Wiccans, of course. Just as Christians identify themselves as Christians, Buddhists as Buddhists.
Wicca is a religion.
Also this:
I know that. However, it’s not an option in the survey. So any wiccan ( and other people who are not mentioned) who answered the survey, must have marked themselves as “unaffiliated”.
Actually, it seems there was.
Please note that “All religiously affiliated teens” > “Christian”. This means that there were some non-Christian religiously affiliated teens (3.7% of the total sample). It’s just that they do not appear to have been analysed further
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There is no way that could be reasonably interpreted as an anulment of the laws condoning slavery. Not even close.
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Thus making the whole subthread completely pointless.
I’ll just point out that nothing you have said comes close to refuting (or even addressing) my point that the reason conservative Christians don’t vote for Democrats is not because Democrats aren’t Christians, but because Democrats aren’t conservative.
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This is quite clearly talking about slavery as a metaphor, and so is not in any way expressing disapproval of slavery as a literal institution.
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Which didn’t work, since many of the descendants of African transportees were both Christians and slaves.
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What a crock of total jibber jabber.
There’s nothing in the moral part of the Law that suggests that abortion is murder.
There’s nothing in the Bible to suggest that abortion is classified as murder. There is something to suggest that it isn’t.
No, they are misrepresenting the teaching of their church as the teaching of Jesus Christ, which they generally ignore.
Who exactly is endorsing abortion, Eddie?
That’s exactly backwards. They wish to impose their church’s political dogma on others, most enthusiastically as it relates to sexual behavior.
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What are the federal laws passed by Democrats that have led to this distrust?
As already mentioned, nearly all Democrats are Christians.
This next election will certainly be a litmus test. Democrats took control of the House in the last election, and general trends have leaned in favor of Democrats in recent years. It is entirely possible that Democrats will have a majority in both houses of Congress and the White House.
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I didn’t say it was annulment, I said Jesus categorized slavery differently than men. He was neither for or against mans practice of indentured servitude, but wanted people to be free. Men are wicked and pervert systems to gain power, Jesus wasn’t and didn’t. Seems simple to me, funny how everyone is so opposed to Jesus’ position of offering freedom through faith in Him.
That appears to be a straw man, because AFAIK no one is.
We are opposed to your representation of that passage as a condemnation of humans enslaving other humans.
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Again, I do not say that it is a condemnation, it is apathetic to mans institution of slavery as it is not the important issue…we are all slaves to something. So to say that Jesus had a position on the institution of slavery is not accurate, He didn’t. But in those times slavery was both a means of survival and a means of control over others. Sometimes it was a good thing, where servitude ensured the basics needed for survival, likened to a job in todays terms.
Except that slavery inherently increases one person’s power over another, so increases the potential for abuse.
Given this, why wasn’t Jesus against slavery (we are not talking about mere indentured servitude, but chattel slavery)?
And Jesus would condemn that abuse. Is there an example of chattel slavery in Jesus time? The obvious OT version is about the Jews in Egypt, God was not pleased with Egypt.
That was both the Roman standard, and the OT Jewish standard for non-Jewish slaves, so I would presume yes.
The obvious OT version is about the Jews in Egypt, God was not pleased with Egypt.Yet in Leviticus, God immediately turns around and permits the Israelites to own non-Israelites as chattel slaves.
Mark, you claimed:
Why did you do that?
I agree. To say that Jesus had a position on abortion also is not accurate.
Mark, slavery still exists TODAY. Is your world limited to the US middle class?