Me and my brother are the only two in our family who have awakened. Trying to wake up my dad from his 50+ years of Baptist indoctrination is like pulling teeth. He gets the illuminati and moon hoax and 9/11 but he doesn't believe pedo rings exist or that Clinton really has a body count. And even bringing up higher dimensions, Antarctica, etc brings a very quick "where is this in the Bible?"
AAGGHH! I am wondering of the 4-6% are going to be the middle-aged Christians. It's very depressing when I can barely relate to dad anymore on politics.
He sounds like a keen and intuitive guy, give him time to come around on some other topics. I would hardly call him "asleep" compared to most people I know.
christians are very difficult to wake up because they think that only God can effect any big changes.
You nailed it. Many a study has shown that people with low-to-mid level IQs overestimate their intelligence, while people with high lQs underestimate theirs - in virtually equal measure.
Or as Bukowski put it, "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
Yeah. Unpopular take here: I love Christians and consider myself one in a lot of ways, but I do think they have blinders on when it comes to the Bible.
Here's my view: if you can't trust a news article that was published yesterday, why do you trust a book that was published thousands of years ago, written secondhand about events that transpired centuries prior, then translated dozens of times and propped up as a cornerstone of our culture? You think the government hasn't already compromised such a book for their benefit?
Luke 23:34 is a perfect example:
This is a deliberate mistranslation that amounts to pacifist propaganda. Here's what it originally said:
The meaning was completely inverted. This might sound outrageous, but some of the philosophy in the modern Bible is outright Satanic.
That said, a man devoted to his faith probably won't want to hear this stuff. It is important though.
More details on the above example here: https://greatawakening.win/p/13zgbjnHke/purposely-causing-harm-does-not-/c/
I am very interested by Luke 23:34. Which translations have the "correct" terminology? the KJV shows the same wording!
Yep, nearly every Bible has that mistranslation now. If you repeat a mistake often enough, it becomes the norm - it's like a game of telephone.
The Textus Receptus correctly interprets the original text by accounting for the punctuation - check the link in my previous post for more info, it's one of the most eye-opening threads on GAW in my opinion.