Disgusting attempt at increasing pregnancies to fill church pews.
For the first time in 2016, “No Religion” topped a survey of Americans’ religious identity, according to a new analysis by a political scientist. The non-religious edged out Catholics and evangelicals in the long-running General Social Survey.
Ryan Burge, a political scientist at Eastern Illinois University and a Baptist pastor, found that 23.1% of Americans now claim no religion. This trend has increased since then.
How great is that!!?? Keep it going!!
This goes directly to the comment I made regarding how religion and the religious try to control people's lives.
They're so busy trying to control our sex lives, they can't even root out the predators within their own flocks.
Makes me think that they really don't want to.
Why on earth would anyone trust what they have to say about human sexuality?
No one should. Ever.
It was not surprising to me when my evangelical older sister confided in me that her fellow fundy hubby was a porn addict, so much so that he got fired from his cushy govt. job for surfing porn on his work computer during work hours...
Often I think fundy's believe what they do because they get an extra erotic thrill out of being "naughty" or "bad". They can't get that thrill unless they believe.
Sounds like dirty minded Christians. Since, they watch more porn than we do.
Actually YOU are 1,000% correct there and I am NOT joking either.
Let me, please, pass on a few 'snippets' gained from most trustworthy sources,
a) I have a few friends who are employed by a Home Cleaning Company, they often relate to me the " sights" they are confronted with, in confidence of course, when required, usually on a regular basis btw, to clean, etc, the home/s of local working/self-employed Religious persons and a number of religious Ministers as well,
b) One prime example is as follows,
Friends A and B were sent to 'clean and tidy' the home of the local leader of the Evangelist Community Leader, as they ELECT to call themselves, arriving to find the house closed and locked but having, as always, both permission, identification and the necessary keys, they let themselves in.
What confronted them EVEN shocked and astounded me when they related it to me,
male and female clothing of NUMEROUS types, shapes, sizes, etc,, including, as they told me, " types and kinds of Erotic Apparel that they had never seen nor heard of before,"
traces, multiple traces of certain human body fluids, etc, on almost EVERY surface imaginable, sex toys, shackles, latex outfits most DEFINITELT not made nor meant for wearing on Public Social Occasions,
Human faeces splattered ALMOST everywhere, the distinctive odour of human urine coming from almost everywhere EXCEPT the Bathrooms and Toilets, though both Shower Recesses had obviously been used numerous times and lots lots more to add but I will not assault the senses by relating them.
Let us just say that, A and B, picked up their equipment, turned around, locked the door, AFTER photographing what they had been confronted with, and returned to the company offices, handed over what their reports and REQUESTED that they be given an appointment, ASAP, to see a Doctor immediately.
A and B were then placed on Sick Leave for the next week, the Evangelist Community has been INFORMED in the harshest of terms that the cleaning company AND its 2 Employees FULLY intend to bring Legal Actions against the Evangelical Community, the State Health Department was informed and entered the said premises, took samples, photographs, etc, etc, under a POLICE Escort and a Warrant from the Court and we are awaiting the news as to when the /case will be heard in the Local Courts.
Not sure thats accurate.....course I don't check with other porn watchers on their disciplines.
And we all know where that leads. Often this is pure BS to get more followers of this sort of (non) thinking.
Fools and sheep are still in large numbers.
So stupid and pretentious
It’s the same mentality as…. Say this…
@CuddyCruiser Yeah disgusting
This was happening when I moved to the area. I was shocked. This is deep bible belt territory.
When I moved to conservative Wenatchee, WA in 1984, Wenatchee had the highest teen pregnancy rate in the state. Kids were getting pregnant in their parent's empty houses after school and during school vacations.
Parents had their heads in the sand. They were in denial.
I was hired to direct a state-funded program to reduce teen pregnancy. First hired a counselor. Wrote news releases and appeared on TV and radio to spread the word. Recruited over three times the number of pregnant and parenting teens expected in the first year.
The best thing we did was recruit and train over 40 volunteer mothers to pair up one-and-one with the girls like a Big Sister program. The mothers encouraged the girls to return to school. Drove them to medical appointments. Kept an eye on the baby and taught parenting skills.
Teen parents foolishly believed a baby would be like playing with a doll. Only one girl chose adoption. I also helped teen parents get scholarships for college.
The teen pregnancy rate dropped from 25% in 1984 to 6% in 2000. The program continues today under different funding.
They also appear to have the same attitude about Covid..
Apparently it isn't a church anymore, but someone in town is (was?) always updating the sign with those types of messages lol
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Thx for that
They still a currant web site and phone...
@HankSherman I didn't find one. When I google it, it brought me to the Foursquare Church website, which is apparently a "chain" of churches, but I searched there and didn't find one in Casper Wyoming. I think they are just still in Google search though not active.
That sign has the worst advice I ever saw. It is hard to believe a church or anybody or institution would utter such garbage.
In this day and age nothing is shocking anymore.
That's gasp funny, but not far from the truth.
So many fundy raised teens are either not taught birth control methods because "abstinence only" or think having a condom means they are thinking about sinning.
So when inevitable hormone things happen...girl gets pregnant...forced marriage by parents...rarely happy marriage.
Who of us would want to be with the person you banged at 16 forever?
Wow, what great pearls of unmitigated and unabashed bullshit.
This magical, imaginary, never to be seen, never has been seen and never will be seen Daddy in the Sky is so awesomely powerful that,
a) it could NOT create a male and a female human being, at its very best it, AND if you actually believe the twaddle called religion, created the Homo Sapien version of Dolly the Sheep, the mythological Adam, from DUST BUT,and here is the cruncher, NEEDED HUMAN tissue to create the mythological FEMALE counterpart, Eve.
How come that, did Omnipotent Sky Daddy suddenly run out of its eternally inexhaustible Supreme God abilities as well as not realizing/forgetting that " You cannot make an apple into an apricot nor can you make a silk purse from a sows ear", since reason and logic dictate that LIVING material taken from one source CANNOT become ANYTHING< gender speaking, but the same gender as that of the source of the material.
b) Well Sky Daddy has been such a GREAT Benefactor has he/she/it not?
6,000+ years, according Biblical Mythology of course, in the first few hundred/thousand years SKY Daddy either ACTIVELY encourages the SLAUGHTER of Thousands, if not Hundreds of Thousands of people, men, women, children, babies and even unborn babies, ( REMEMBER these too were the Creations of Sky Daddy, a LOVING Sky Daddy btw) then we have the Great Flood of Noah, reason for, Sky Daddy has a bad hair day, ergo EVERYONE but Noah and family MUST be ERADICATED, a rough estimate, Human Death Toll = approx. 10 Million give or take a hundred or so thousand, Wow what Divine and Heaven sent Protection ALL those dead received.
Yes, Sky Daddy protects everyone of course NOT.
I'm curious to how you came upon such a sign for a church. It's very unusually extreme for a church to be so presumptuous. I'll go out on the limb and place a sense of conjecture that this sign was developed on a sign site where you can create you own message then copy it for comparison. They provide various types and styles of religious signs to do this for those seeking to purchase a new sign. These types of sites became very useful for racist to productively spread their hate and false narratives when we were facing large middle east immigration and asylum seekers as we were destroying their countries. Many false narratives from these and meme creating sites littered facebook during the Bush presidency.
DO NOT take this the WRONG way please, BUT where have you been living for the last 20 + years?
@Garban it's now on the Internet with the intent to deliver a propagandized message. I'm simply suggesting we question why and who's perception they're attempting to manage.