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Well I'm glad you are posting now! And it is cool that you have some actual seminary training under your belt. I am strictly an amateur and my training is in science with very little formal philosophy. I think hanging out on the intuitive level is just fine myself. Frankly I'm heading back...

Hi Dondi, So, have you jumped ship to be an atheist or playing devil's advocate here? :D Of course. I'm just pointing out their own circular logic. Based in pure 'logic,' stalemate. By the blood of martyrs I mean that for whatever a martyr dies for they hold it to be so true that they...

Well, my faith is very relationship based and being a human it makes sense to me to relate to God as human. I think God is transcendent and immanent, and as soon as I start talking about God it is his immanent aspect I relate to. God is More than Person, not less. All of that is folded up...

It certainly gives us a lot more time for these high-falutin' arguments, which I often worry about. But, many people who are walking miles for water and suffering from all kinds of trouble find comfort and hope in God. And many people are moved to alleviate that suffering because we see it...

Thank you for your comments and I appreciate the spirit in which they are offered Paladin. :) I'd enjoy hearing your elaborated thoughts on the quote above.

Thanks All. :) That was fun to write last night. Oh, I know atheists will have lots and lots and pages and pages and argument after argument to say about all this, but refer to my first statement. My statements are not coming from a God of the Gaps foundation, but a Leap of Faith. And...

So, I've long recognized that God is not falsifiable, so as far as that goes atheists are on no firmer ground than theists. And I've recently become satisfied that the existence of God is completely consistent with the universe as we know it through science and philosophy. This is just my...

Interesting though, it is not the more evangelical and non-denoms that are declining, but mostly the moderate to liberal mainline Protestant churches. From daur's link above:

:D I'm not worried about heathens; they are typically some of the nicest people around. But it does seem to me that we are becoming more and more a nation of extremes. It also seems to me that as a nation we are buying into the false notion that reason and faith are incompatible.

Guess I'll add a couple of follow-up questions. Is the decline of moderate and mainstream churches a loss to our religious landscape? Do you think this represents an overall increase in polarization between individuals who consider themselves 'religious' and those who consider themselves...

Hi All, I thought this study is kind of interesting. Seems that the biggest changes have been a decrease in mainline churches (other than Catholic) and an increase in 'no religion.' See how U.S. religious landscape has changed in nearly 2 decades - USATODAY.com