Hermit wrote:

BlackBart wrote:Already done. In his 14th post on the topic truelgbt asked "Who are the born-again Christian dictators you are referring to?" The stipulation that Christian dictators only count as being associated with genocides if they are born-again Christians is a new one. It is necessary because there simply are too many ordinary Christians who have been associated with genocides and mass murders in recent history.

Hopefully all individual atheist organizations around the world (50+) will do the same because the more the better.
Same goes for all Christian organizations to do the same as well.

truelgbt wrote:
Speaking of pro-abortion votes which enables the murder of children,...

truelgbt wrote:... that includes many of you here on this forum.

truelgbt wrote:As pro-abortion voters, YOU are active participants in modern-day genocide.

truelgbt wrote: Abortion IS genocide.

Genocide is the intentional action to destroy a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part.

truelgbt wrote:
A Christian is born again. There is no other.

The four largest branches of Christianity are the Catholic Church (1.3 billion/50.1%), Protestantism (920 million/36.7%), the Eastern Orthodox Church (230 million), and the Oriental Orthodox churches (62 million) (Orthodox churches combined at 11.9%),...

Born again, or to experience the new birth, is a phrase, particularly in evangelicalism, that refers to "spiritual rebirth", or a regeneration of the human spirit. In contrast to one's physical birth, being "born again" is caused distinctly and separately by baptism in Holy Spirit, not by baptism in water. It is a core doctrine of the denominations of the Methodist, Quaker, Baptist, and Pentecostal Church along with all other evangelical Christian denominations. All of these strongly believe Jesus' words in the Gospels: "You must be born again before you can see, or enter, the Kingdom of Heaven." Their doctrine also mandates that to be both "born again" and "saved" one must have a personal and intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

In 2016, there were an estimated 619 million evangelicals in the world, meaning that one in four Christians would be classified as evangelical.

truelgbt wrote:

Hermit wrote:

BlackBart wrote:Already done. In his 14th post on the topic truelgbt asked "Who are the born-again Christian dictators you are referring to?" The stipulation that Christian dictators only count as being associated with genocides if they are born-again Christians is a new one. It is necessary because there simply are too many ordinary Christians who have been associated with genocides and mass murders in recent history.

A Christian is born again. There is no other.

Jesus defined a Christian as follows: Jesus answered and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3)

truelgbt wrote:I stand corrected. AAI has indeed spoken out against the Uyghur genocide carried out by atheists in China. Hopefully all individual atheist organizations around the world (50+) will do the same because the more the better.

Same goes for all Christian organizations to do the same as well. This genocide has been going on since 2014 and only in this year, 2021, has anyone of significance spoken out against it. Why are so few speaking out? And why has it taken so long?

It is unfortunate though that the 20th and 21st centuries have been marred by THEIST governments who have carried out the murder of hundreds of millions.

Mr Trump told the Axios news site that achieving a "great" deal meant he could not impose "additional sanctions".

Spearthrower wrote:216,000 cases of pedophilia by CHRISTIAN clergy in the last 70 years in France alone...

truelgbt wrote:

Spearthrower wrote:216,000 cases of pedophilia by CHRISTIAN clergy in the last 70 years in France alone...

Uh, here is the title of a CNN article about the 216,000 cases of pedophilia...
"France CATHOLIC church abuse scandal - CNN"

Why didn't you mention CATHOLIC???

truelgbt wrote:The Bible describes the CATHOLIC Church as follows (2 Timothy 3:5): "...having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people."

truelgbt wrote:The CATHOLIC Church is the False Church of the endtimes.

truelgbt wrote:The Catholic Church is considered as just that - a different group entirely.

truelgbt wrote: They worship and pray to Mary (an idol), and deceased saints (more idols). And blasphemies of blasphemies, they worship the Pope!!@! And he receives it!!! The Bible forbids worshipping or praying to idols or humans.

truelgbt wrote:If you go to a largely Catholic country in Latin America and, as a born-again Christian you hold a service on Sunday, no CATHOLIC will even come close. No way. They know you and they are different altogether.

truelgbt wrote:Why ATHEISTS lump all churches together is because of ignorance.

truelgbt wrote: You don't live in a CATHOLIC country where the differences are acute and obvious so you don't understand the ways of the church or the culture of it in Latin American countries, for example.

truelgbt wrote:So when we hear about pedophilia within the CATHOLIC clergy, we should not be surprised. They are acting out exactly what they are....the FALSE Church of the endtimes.

truelgbt wrote:What about the CATHOLIC Crusades and CATHOLIC inquisition which is ignorantly blamed on all churches?

truelgbt wrote:The CATHOLIC Crusades and the CATHOLIC Inquisition MURDERED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS for refusing to bow to the Pope?

truelgbt wrote:And now is being blamed on Christians - who were murdered??? WHAAT?

truelgbt wrote:As I said before, I am soooooo glad to hear some motivated ATHEIST individuals at AAI decided to speak out against what their fellow ATHEISTS in China were doing by committing genocide against the Uyghur Muslim ethnic minority group. A bit late since they made their statement in 2021 and the genocide has been going on since 2014 or earlier, but better late than never. Kudos to them!!!

truelgbt wrote:I can understand why ATHEISTS would hesitate to speak out against other ATHEISTS but not on the matter of genocide.

truelgbt wrote:Have any of you here - Spearchucker, Bart, Hermit, etc. bothered to mention or speak out against the ATHEIST genocide here on this forum or any other forum? What response did you get?

truelgbt wrote:Let's not forget the ATHEIST Genocide body count on the OP, plus the 9 million Uyghurs, we have at least 163 MILLION bodies.

truelgbt wrote:(IMHO, the Uyghur genocide should have been included in the original OP right up front and center).

truelgbt wrote:Nobody here has addressed this 163 MILLION body count yet. Anybody?

truelgbt wrote:This is not a Catholic body count, a Christian body count, or a Protestant body count, but an ATHEIST body count.

Australia's Anglican church gets 1,115 child abuse complaints

More than 1,100 complaints of child sexual abuse have been made against the Anglican Church of Australia, a royal commission inquiry has heard.

The allegations, dating from 1980 to 2015, have been made against 569 church figures, including 247 ordained clergy.

The Anglican Church has admitted trying to keep victims quiet to protect its reputation.

Emo Philips wrote:Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"

He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"

He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"

Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.

The Uyghur genocide is the characterization of the series of human rights abuses committed by the government of China against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang as genocide. Since 2014, the Chinese government under the direction of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the administration of CCP general secretary Xi Jinping has pursued policies that incarcerated more than an estimated one million Muslims (the majority of them Uyghurs) in internment camps without any legal process.[2][3][4] This was the largest-scale detention of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II.[5][6] Thousands of mosques were destroyed or damaged, and hundreds of thousands of children were forcibly separated from their parents and sent to boarding schools.[7][8][9]

Government policies have included the arbitrary detention of Uyghurs in state-sponsored internment camps,[10][11] forced labor,[12][13] suppression of Uyghur religious practices,[14] political indoctrination,[15] severe ill-treatment,[16] forced sterilization,[17] forced contraception,[18][19] and forced abortion.[20][21] Chinese government statistics reported that from 2015 to 2018, birth rates in the mostly Uyghur regions of Hotan and Kashgar fell by more than 60%.[17] In the same period, the birth rate of the whole country decreased by 9.69%, from 12.07 to 10.9 per 1,000 people.[22] Chinese authorities acknowledged that birth rates dropped by almost a third in 2018 in Xinjiang, but denied reports of forced sterilization and genocide.[23] Birth rates in Xinjiang fell a further 24% in 2019 (compared to a nationwide decrease of 4.2%).[17]

At first, these actions were described as the forced assimilation of Xinjiang, and an ethnocide or cultural genocide.[24][25] As more details emerged, some governments, activists, independent NGOs, human rights experts, academics and the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile termed it genocide, pointing to the definition laid out in the Genocide Convention.[26][27][28][29]

International reactions have been diverse. Some United Nations (UN) member states issued statements to the United Nations Human Rights Council condemning China's policies, while others supported China's policies.[30] In December 2020, the International Criminal Court declined to take investigate China on jurisdictional grounds.[31][32] The United States was the first country to declare the human rights abuses a genocide, announcing its finding on January 19, 2021,[33] although the US State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser concluded that evidence was insufficient to prove genocide.[34] Legislatures in multiple countries followed by passing non-binding motions marking China's actions as genocide, including the House of Commons of Canada,[35] the Dutch parliament,[36] the House of Commons of the United Kingdom[37] and the Seimas of Lithuania.[38] Other parliaments, such as those in New Zealand,[39] Belgium,[40] and the Czech Republic condemned the Chinese government's treatment of Uyghurs as "severe human rights abuses" or crimes against humanity.[41]