by chappy 23 Replies latest jw friends
Based on current events, do you think the WTS could be at least partially correct on their prediction about organized religion being banned by many governments or even some future UN mandate? What about the western governments (US, Britain, France, Germany etc)? Think it could or even may happen? After all, religion is at the root of 99% of all the current military conflict. What would you do if you were in charge?
chappy
No
UHHHH Mrs Jones could you be a little more specific you seem to be dancing around the issue....
Anyone read Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson? To quote Nick Corey, "Well, I reckon ya might have sumthin thar. I ain't saying you do, but I ain't saying ya don't either."
Well, if so then it would be the first prediction to come true!!!!!
Oh yeah sure - try telling the rag heads that their religion is being banned
Only correct to the same level that I was correct in my prediction that monkeys would fly out of my butt.
Western Europe is more secular than the USA. I don't think religion will be banned there, it's not as big a force as it once was.
I don't see religion being banned in the USA anytime soon. It seems like every presidential candidate is racing to say they're the godliest, Christianest -- even the Democrats this year. I guess God has a really tough choice in 2008.
Not gonna happen.
On paper the UN is also against genocide, but look at how effective they've been in Rwanda and now Darfur.
A riveting book I'd recommend you (or anyone, for that matter) read is "Shake Hands with the Devil" by Canadian senator and former general Romeo Dallaire. He was in charge of the UN force in Rwanda during the 1994 massacre and the tale he tells is one of heart-wrenching ineptitude and maddening bureaucracy at the highest echelons of the United Nations.
Even communism at its strongest was unable to completely stamp out religion, there's no way that bunch of self-serving bureaucrats will be able to do any better.
If religion gets banned then hell will freeze over and and I won't have to worry about burning forever
