Evolution is Religion, Not Science!!

This article from the Institute for Creation Research speaks for itself, and doesnt really need whole a lot of commentary added to it. I just wanted to share with my visitors here one of the best articles I've come across recently that shows, USING THEIR OWN WORDS, that atheistic evolutionists know full well that evolution is not just a scientific endeavor; it's an attempt to stamp out belief in God. In essence, it is a replacement, secular relgion, an attempt to provide atheists (and agnotics perhaps) with a way to rationalize away the existence of God. No God, of course, means no one that we're accountable to -- which is really at the core of man's desire to try to eradicate the existence of God.

A few of the quotes:

Scientists should refuse formal debates because they do more harm than good, but scientists still need to counter the creationist message.³

Even if all the data point to an intelligent designer, such a hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic.⁷

Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion—a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. . . . Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today. ⁸

We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, . . . in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated commitment to materialism. . . . we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.¹⁰

Full article here.

Are there dangers in being 'spiritual but not religious'?

My answer to the above question is a resounding "YES!".  There are indeed dangers to having a buffet-style, pick-and-choose, do-it-yourself mindset regarding religion. However, that seems to be the way our world is headed.

Those who have such a mindset are similar to those Paul wrote about in Romans10:2-3

 ²... they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
 ³For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

... and also in 2 Timothy 4:3:

³For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

It may be "religiously incorrect" to say it nowadays, but there is still just one way to God, and His name is Jesus Christ.

" ...if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins."
(John 8:24)


 ³⁷When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"
 ³⁸Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ³⁹The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call."

(Acts 2:37-39)

 ¹⁵He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. ¹⁶Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
 (Mark 16:15-16)

The gospel that the church received from Jesus in the first century has  . It was the way to God then... and it's still the way to God in 2010.
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Excerpt from the CNN.com article:
Are there dangers in being 'spiritual but not religious'?

(CNN) -- "I'm spiritual but not religious."

It's a trendy phrase people often use to describe their belief that they don't need organized religion to live a life of faith.

But for Jesuit priest James Martin, the phrase also hints at something else: egotism.

"Being spiritual but not religious can lead to complacency and self-centeredness," says Martin, an editor at America, a national Catholic magazine based in New York City. "If it's just you and God in your room, and a religious community makes no demands on you, why help the poor?"

Religious debates erupt over everything from doctrine to fashion. Martin has jumped into a running debate over the "I'm spiritual but not religious" phrase.

The "I'm spiritual but not religious" community is growing so much that one pastor compared it to a movement. In a 2009 survey by the research firm LifeWay Christian Resources, 72 percent of millennials (18- to 29-year-olds) said they're "more spiritual than religious." The phrase is now so commonplace that it's spawned its own acronym ("I'm SBNR") and Facebook page: SBNR.org.

But what exactly does being "spiritual but not religious" mean, and could there be hidden dangers in living such a life?

Did you choose "Burger King Spirituality"?

Heather Cariou, a New York City-based author who calls herself spiritual instead of religious, doesn't think so. She's adopted a spirituality that blends Buddhism, Judaism and other beliefs.

"I don't need to define myself to any community by putting myself in a box labeled Baptist, or Catholic, or Muslim," she says. "When I die, I believe all my accounting will be done to God, and that when I enter the eternal realm, I will not walk though a door with a label on it."

Full article: here.

Interfaith marriages are rising fast, but they're failing fast too

I've never thought it was a good idea for people of different faiths to marry. If, for example, a person who's Catholic, who supposedly believes Jesus is the messiah, marries someone who's Jewish (who believes Jesus is NOT the messiah), then what do they teach their children?

But even apart from the children issue, what happens when one partner who had been lackadaisical about his/her faith decides to get more serious about their faith? One can only imagine the friction it can cause in the marriage. I certainly didn't need a Washington Post article to convince me interfaith marriages are a bad idea. But this article just reinforces in my mind my long held belief that an interfaith marriage is essentially a disaster waiting to happen.

As the Bibble itself says: How can two walk together unless they be in agreement? (Amos 3:3)

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By Naomi Schaefer Riley

Sunday, June 6, 2010 


When Joseph Reyes and Rebecca Shapiro got married in 2004, they had a Jewish wedding ceremony. He was Catholic but converted to Judaism after they married, and they agreed to raise any children in the Jewish faith. However, after their daughter Ela was born, Reyes began to worry about the fact that she had not been baptized. "If, God forbid, something happened to her, she wouldn't be in heaven," he told me.

Today, two years after the Illinois couple's bitter divorce battle began, the fight over Ela's religious upbringing involves criminal charges.

The fight escalated in November, when Reyes had Ela baptized in a Catholic church and e-mailed his estranged wife a photo. She filed a complaint, and a judge barred Reyes from exposing his daughter to "any other religion other than the Jewish religion." In January, Reyes violated the judge's order and brought Ela to church again, with a camera crew in tow.

The divorce was settled in April. Reyes is once again allowed to take his daughter to church. But he faces up to six months in jail.

The Reyes-Shapiro divorce is about as ugly as the end of a marriage can get. Some of the sparring is an example of the bad ways people act when a union unravels. But the fight over Ela's religion illustrates the particular hardships and poor track record of interfaith marriages: They fail at higher rates than same-faith marriages. But couples don't want to hear that, and no one really wants to tell them.

Full article here.