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@badgenome

Perhaps you need to revisit my original post. I wasn't referencing a global phenomena, but a local phenomena for some in this community. Believe it or not people who post here don't all live in the same place. That is what I meant when I referred to our neck of the woods. My first reply to you highlighted the fact that in a great many places that were predominantly Christian at one point. The religion has seen a very steep decline. For people in those places what I suggested may come to pass within twenty to thirty years.

I am not going to argue against your particular brand of Creationism. You sure don't own the subject entirely all to yourself. The reality is that a great many Creationists don't acknowledge the fossil record at all, and often dispute the authenticity of the fossils themselves. Some openly stating that they were planted by Satan or by Atheists to discredit the Bible. Look it seems asinine to me as well, but we can't just ignore the fact that a large cross section of the Creationist community buys into that hogwash so much so that they release literature, and build museums to support their notions.

For someone who obviously has problems with reading comprehension you probably don't have room to talk on the subject of free thinking, because you haven't even entertained the subject of the thread, and yes that makes you off topic. Which is what I asked posters not to do, because this isn't a Atheism/Agnosticism/Deism verse Christianity debate I was putting forth. I asked a pretty simple question, and if you didn't want to address it you should have done as I suggested by creating a thread of your own instead of derailing mine.

For the purposes of reiteration which I ought not have to do being that we are on page one. I asked a fairly simple question. Which was if Christianity declines to near extinction levels in a community. What effect do you expect that would have on the faithful, or if you want to contemplate otherwise on the faith itself. How would you feel as a Christian if you ended up being the last Christian where you lived. With no Church to go to, and with nobody to be a Christian with.

I understand if you might be afraid to dwell on that particular idea, but it is never the less a good idea for a good discussion. I don't want to revisit the same well trodden ground. I want to discuss how such a scenario would effect people that might have to live through such a transition. This set of circumstances has happened before, and it has happened to Christian sects both in the past, and in the modern day.

So do you actually intend to contribute, or do you intend to just keep derailing the subject.