Yahzi
25th August 2003, 09:54 PM
It all starts when you're young. A person's moral and spiritual foundation is pretty much set at age 9. But most churches don't take somebody seriously as a spiritual individual until they're teenagers – or maybe young adults. And if you wait until that age, basically, it's too late.
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/html/4138-Q_.html
But apparently its ok for Mr. Barna to describe Christianity as so morally and intellectually weak that it can only convert children.
Do you suppose Mr. Barna has noticed that it's hard to get young men to fly planes into buildings if you don't start preaching to them when they're kids?
It's hard to see what difference a person's faith makes when you actually observe how a born-again Christian lives.
Hey... that sounds familiar... didn't a poster here make essentially the same comment? Wasn't he excroriated for it? Who was that, anyway? Anybody we know? And weren't statistics brought into the discussion? Well, Mr. Barna is a professional pollster... he ought to have the statistics at hand. Oh wait. He does. Golly jee whiz.
Note: Barna makes a distinction between Evangelicals (who do have a Biblical word-view and are 6% of the population) and the Born-Agains (who he is complaining about and are 38%).
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/html/4138-Q_.html
But apparently its ok for Mr. Barna to describe Christianity as so morally and intellectually weak that it can only convert children.
Do you suppose Mr. Barna has noticed that it's hard to get young men to fly planes into buildings if you don't start preaching to them when they're kids?
It's hard to see what difference a person's faith makes when you actually observe how a born-again Christian lives.
Hey... that sounds familiar... didn't a poster here make essentially the same comment? Wasn't he excroriated for it? Who was that, anyway? Anybody we know? And weren't statistics brought into the discussion? Well, Mr. Barna is a professional pollster... he ought to have the statistics at hand. Oh wait. He does. Golly jee whiz.
Note: Barna makes a distinction between Evangelicals (who do have a Biblical word-view and are 6% of the population) and the Born-Agains (who he is complaining about and are 38%).