According to NPR this morning, Religion is going extinct. Secularism will be the norm within two years. So a group of atheist are celebrating with a Woodstock type march.
They say this like this like it is a radical way of thinking and that our America whose beginnings were birthed from the Bible will be shocked and dismayed with a rising sense of helplessness, hopelessness and sense of inevitability. Poor religious nut cases who hold tightly to God and guns will be marginalized and defeated.
Little do they know!!! Who created America to be who she is? Who establishes plans and destroys them?
Can the God who scooped out the oceans and gathered the mountains; putting them in their place actually still be the head of a mighty church that the Gates of Hell Cannot Prevail upon?
What the atheist movement and NPR doesn't realize is that the church is not a building or a name. It is not a "big church" that logs their kids in and out in order to keep track of them. It is not about numbers or walls or names or marketing or sitting in the right place.
The revolution of true spirituality is the revival of the true church. So religion extinct? It will be when we all get to heaven!!!! When our focus will truly be on God. What a DAY of rejoicing that will be!
Religion Defined:
a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices
a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered
a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects: the Christian religion; the Buddhist religion.
In Ravi Zacharias' book"Jesus Among Other Gods," he says, "Sometimes religion can
be the greatest roadblock to true spirituality." He continues, "I think that's really what we are witnessing in our world today.
The
barricades of religion, the chains of religion, the rites and rituals
and superstition and tradition come into play and become what you hold
onto. It becomes bereft of the true nature of personhood and
relationship, and that's what true spirituality is all about.
When
Jesus was asked what is the greatest law, he reduced the 600-plus laws
given by Moses to two — you shall love your God with all your heart,
soul and mind, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus meant
you cannot disconnect these two.
Religion can become such a
single-dimension thing that you miss the horizontal. True spirituality
is the focus on God and your fellow human being. Religion sometimes
reduces spirituality to a moralizing, self-determining and
works-oriented expression. In Buddhism, you work your way into Nirvana.
In Islam, no matter how hard you work, it's up to the will of Allah.
That's why I believe so strongly that the Christian faith is the only
faith that bridges what ought to be and what can be by the grace of God."
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