It has been fashionable for a few decades to deny being Christian. Even if one went to Sunday School and Bible Classes and was Christened and was married in a Church.
So fashionable is such denial that on census forms, the *no religion* option is chosen, as some sort of statement of honesty and intelligence.
Seen as if one doesn't believe in all the Bible stories then one is not a Christian.
As I point out to people, at census time, other religious groups have no difficulty ticking their religious box, and if all the clever skeptical types don't tick *Christianity*, then NZ will not be considered a Christian country and it will be the tenets of another religion that we will have to follow.
It has been fashionable for a few decades to deny being Christian. Even if one went to Sunday School and Bible Classes and was Christened and was married in a Church.
So fashionable is such denial that on census forms, the *no religion* option is chosen, as some sort of statement of honesty and intelligence.
Seen as if one doesn't believe in all the Bible stories then one is not a Christian.
As I point out to people, at census time, other religious groups have no difficulty ticking their religious box, and if all the clever skeptical types don't tick *Christianity*, then NZ will not be considered a Christian country and it will be the tenets of another religion that we will have to follow.
Highschool 1979.
Bus trip, Michigan to Ohio, band trip.
I have the first walkman in my class.
CSNY the whole trip.
I keep reviewing (2024) the control, it's scope
continues to impress.
Excellent point about "in the image of God".
I thought that was nonsense until I read your post.
Very important basic principle.