They are not great evidence seekers. Our entire universe and all conscious life is evidence and they just choose to ignore it and pretend it magically appeared without higher intelligence being involved.

"atheists here, without any evidence, call me a "religous absolutist".

You said there was no such thing as objective evidence, so that's pretty funny.

Actually I think foreigners like Comfort and Ham start off in a country where they are preaching to a brick wall because atheism is more acceptable in those countries. Thus, to get rich, they come to America knowing that religion is still so hammered into people here they become mentally retarded enough that they lose their capabilities of critical thinking, logical reasoning/analysis, deductive reasoning/analysis, rational thought, and analytical thought. Perfect examples abound now with Breezy, Apollo, JNV3, quantummechanist, etc.

Us Americans are slowly, very slowly, waking up from the Matrix of Religious Absolutism. Although it shall never happen in my lifetime, I can see America switching around to where the Religious Absolutists become a minor minority. It just won't happen in my lifetime. Also think on this. Churches are actually merging into these mega-churches because the "small" churches no longer have the funds to continue. Thus, they have to shut down and send their parishioners to larger churches that just continue to grow. However, the number of churches in America are decreasing. But the number of mega-churches increases. And, overall, the number of "religious" persons is also decreasing.

And the one thing I hate most about those vicious lying vipers is how they will say, "Our numbers increased by 3 million." Yet, they hide the fact that their numbers also decreased by 5 million in the same time period.

Hell even the Morons, are in trouble. The only reason Scientology continues to slightly thrive is because they were smart and put their treasures into bank accounts that now produce enough accumulative interest to keep them going with their small size. Additionally, they have all those libraries that not only allow free-reading of the books, but you may also purchase the books. It is not so much the "churches" Scientology now has, it is the "business" they possess.

In my honest opinion, regardless, if any "church" has more than 25 people, then it should be treated as if a "business" and taxed accordingly. Furthermore, no exemptions due to "charitable donations" the church may give. As far as I am concerned, the "total amount of tithes received" should be the basis for the taxes.

Of course, this might would lead to the churches demanding more input into the government. My response would be, "Your sorry asses already grease the palms of so many government officials. Go fuck yourself. Now you are just going to have a little grease to use. Maybe you should switch over to KY."

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