THE POPE IS RIGHT NOW ABOUT TO MAKE A SPEECH

[ShadowsfeaR]

This Pope Francis is a really great guy. He's been more 'by the book Christ-like' than any Christian I've personally met.

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[mod-man]

It's okay to be atheist, but bashing religion and saying it's bullstuff and being like "lol why wont religion just die" is a really pathetic thing to do, it's like saying people are stupid and weird for not eating at the restaurant across the street and not the one you are eating at now.

i dont think hes necessarily questioning why religion wont just die, just that its surprising religion is still around (or maybe he is idk)

which it really isnt surprising, but what will be surprising is where religion will be in 100-1000 years. thats what i think about a lot

like it once wasn't un-common to believe there was a god for everything, but how many people do you see now-a-days who still believe in multiple gods like that? today we more or so just have one head honcho. whose to say people will still follow that concept of religion by 3000?

[Blake1Studios]

He has literally turned polar opposite from what I can tell

Digging through his posts suggests he was active in some christian church August 2014. He claimed to be agnostic a year later. Who knows.

[sir dooble]

like it once wasn't un-common to believe there was a god for everything, but how many people do you see now-a-days who still believe in multiple gods like that? today we more or so just have one head honcho. whose to say people will still follow that concept of religion by 3000?

Well monotheism in the form of Islam is around 1400 years old, and Christianity is about 2000 years old, and in the form of Judaism it's roughly 2500 years old.

I wouldn't be surprised if monotheism survives close to another 1000 years.

[Ceist]

Digging through his posts suggests he was active in some christian church August 2014. He claimed to be agnostic a year later. Who knows.

his pastor must've raped him.

[XR-7]

Digging through his posts suggests he was active in some christian church August 2014. He claimed to be agnostic a year later. Who knows.

Every time a religion thread has popped up since that declaration he has been running around acting just as skeptic as he once was believing. I'm not dissing him or anything, but he went from arrogantly bashing gays and atheists on why his way is better to now he appears to be acting like, "Hey guys I'm agnostic notice me!"

[ßløçks]

i dont think hes necessarily questioning why religion wont just die, just that its surprising religion is still around (or maybe he is idk)

which it really isnt surprising, but what will be surprising is where religion will be in 100-1000 years. thats what i think about a lot

like it once wasn't un-common to believe there was a god for everything, but how many people do you see now-a-days who still believe in multiple gods like that? today we more or so just have one head honcho. whose to say people will still follow that concept of religion by 3000?

Well most Greeks and Romans, as well as most Indians (from India not native Americans) believe there are more than one god, but I see your point, but multiple religions all exist simultaneously, so it's important to mention the earliest confirmed recording of Christianity was around 0-30 AD, but it has only grown more than died out, so I predict it will start dying out some time around 2020-2200, big frame of time, but I don't know when Christianity or any other religion for that matter will die out, but I doubt religion will cease to exist, even thousands of years from now. Who knows, maybe something happens in the next 100 years or so that causes a huge raise in people who believe Christianity or any religion. We just can't tell.

[Badger]

yeahhhh no. that's bullstuff

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yeah, that's why Protestantism was created.


also what did happen to you being a christian

[Sp00n.exe]

pope goes up to podium
everyone is quiet
everyone is waiting for him to say something
the pope slowly moves his head into the mic
"deus vult"
the loving crowd goes wild
people adorn their steel plated armor and get on their horses and head forth towards the holy lands
sacaren blood stains everyones clothes
kingdom of jerusalem is reborn
world is catholic
no more suffering
everyone is happy
we all have icecream
we all thank mr pope everynight

[Epicduke]

my dad wanted us to go if he wasn't driving, it must be traffic hell over there

[Xealyth]

the pope is the reason i won't get my gpu from fedex this week
damn you pope!

No.

No what?

[log]

Full transcript of his address to Congress:
http://cincinnati.mendedlittlehearts.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/pope_address.pdf

[Niff]

my dad wanted us to go if he wasn't driving, it must be traffic hell over there

wait he did?

I was not aware of this

[sir dooble]

so I predict it will start dying out some time around 2020-2200

That's a really rather specific estimate for it.
Especially to suggest it might start dying in just five years time.

Christianity as a whole (including Catholocism and the various Protestant sects) is the worlds largest religion, being approx. 2.4 billion people, or around 33% of the global population.
And it's still growing, both in being spread to more people, but also just because the global population is increasing, particularly in areas where Christianity is gaining numbers or is already massive, such as South America, Africa and Asia.
Just given the fact that most Christian families have Christian children, I think you'll be guaranteed that Christianity will continue as a major religion for several centuries, if not a millennia or two.

[Xealyth]

it will never truly die especially since christianity is embedded into the united states