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Originally Posted by FletchLives
people are definitely skeptics. of course they believe all the things they've been fed their whole life, that doesn't make them not skeptics. if i were to proclaim that i was a messenger of God, very few people would follow me. basically all i'm saying is that Mormanism would never work if Joseph Smith was in our time.
there are cult leaders, but no Christian saints canonized for anything other than service to the community. otherwise George W. Bush could be nominated for sainthood for fighting the Muslims. (pahahahaha)
EDIT: you guys should look up the definition of "skeptic"
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Your reasoning here seems to be that since people will not believe that
you are a messenger of God, they cannot be gullible. That's dumb. Not only do many people believe that there are messengers of God around right now, but most of the world thinks that God had people write a book for them. I don't know how many skeptics you know, but skepticism kind of loses its meaning if it doesn't have a problem with Christian faith.
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Originally Posted by Blitzgal
When 80% of Americans believe in angels, I have to say I agree with Bob on this one. Most people are NOT skeptics. The general public is better educated than they were hundreds of years ago when most of them were peasants working in fields. We have a basic understanding of science and nature, and of course most of us can read which was not the case for much of history. But we are not skeptics.
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Precisely. The lies change, the people don't.