The Bible says something about a rich man, and a camel through the eye of a needle. Moreover, remember the rich dude who walked away miserable, when he was told what was left of him?

What does it benefit you, to gain the whole world and lose your ....

I love poetry. Spoken word. There's a profound one that asks, why hoard so much when others are suffering?

The last Apologetics I attended, the facilitator, a philosophy student, talked about how he went into it to quell the notion of Christianity/Religion, but the more he dug deeper, the more his faith grew! The more he asked questions, the clearer the answers became!

My brother, you are on the right track.... The answers you seek might just be revealed to you.

Thank you Pastor.Quick question why does the Bible seem biased against the rich.Why is there deliberate efforts to convince us that heaven is only for the poor and the rich people will not see the Kingdom of God.Why are there so many songs about how man forgets about God when he gets rich and only remembers him when he is poor?

You cannot verify faith.In fact if you ask questions you are deemed to have little faith.Faith is believing in something you cannot see.
That brings me to my other theory.The main reason why most religions punish you when you leave them is to act as a deterrent measure to prevent other members from leaving that religion.They give you conditions such as you cannot marry someone from a different religion and make you an outcast so that you don't have an independent opinion about your religious beliefs.

Can you quote a verse?

@PeterReborn, I've gone through the link you've provided on the correlation of high intelligence and decline in belief. And I realize that the content may seem truthful and logical at first glance, but is far from it.

Firstly, the argument is based on some IQ test as a comprehensive measure of intelligence, but this is hardly the case.

I concede that people who score high in IQ tests may show less interest and activity in religion, but this may be an adaptation to an environment and conditions that favor such behavior and rationalizations. For example, a consumerist economy would demand most beneficiaries of it to uphold its values. Most beneficiaries would score high in IQ tests. But consumerism may be at odds with religious belief, hence a person with high IQ may actually lower his religious belief to survive.

But would you expect the economic outsiders to have the same incentive to jettison their beliefs, especially when beliefs are survival tools?

Clearly it's important for us to consider how the human mind works when answering these questions. Let me let you in on something that may have passed your notice. Most 'Churches' in the slums are voodooistic. They are not strictly 'Christian'. That is, there's also a decline in belief even among those who may be said to be of low IQ.

Secondly, decline in some religious belief doesn't necessarily imply atheism. In fact, belief systems are fluid networks and many configurations are available. One can even argue that voodoo is atheistic.

Your argument has too many hasty conclusions, and a possible motive behind it is atheism has been taken as a fashion by some people and cultures.

How then do you measure this fire?How can you have turmoil and unease without asking yourself some critical questions?Why is it that a rich man must lose everything to see the kingdom of God?People like Abraham lost everything including his wife and lying that she was his sister. in Luke 18:22 Jesus says " “One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

One can ask a difficult question without the urgency of answering it. The measure of urgency is the threat to some highly held value like survival, and level of cognitive dissonance.

Some, not all, rich people lose their riches for heaven. But poverty provides some space for fire.

The most important thing is to learn asking the right questions, and the right questions stem from a conscious recognition of the self as 'intelligent agent'.

So the right questions are about the self, and how others relate to the self-and vice versa. Otherwise some of these questions we ask are just respectable disguises for idleness.

Of course. Every time i see religions and imaginary gods getting an ass whooping, i get to that thread in warp speed to add my "words of wisdom" and throw some thinly veiled attacks on religious people.