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I'm fixating on this one phrase. For some reason, I can be extremely tolerant and friendly towards people who believe that the world only goes back to 4004 B.C., or that the world is balanced on elephants on a turtle, but christians who claim that the value of christianity is that it leads to success in life -- earthly life -- drive me nuts. Probably the last vestige of my old religious upbringing.
Anyway, doing a quick google search shows that in the United States, the most successful religious denomination is...Hinduism . I wouldn't have guessed, but it makes sense in retrospect. I imagine the numbers would break down differently in India.
Well, they probably wouldn't put it that way if you said it like that, but I agree that this is how it comes about. Probably if you cornered an "elder" in my community, they'd say that Christianity is primarily important for the soul.
But at a parenting talk I was just at, someone commented that "next to raising your kids to know the Lord, loving your spouse well in front of them is the best thing you can do."
I probably didn't define "fail" very well -- I think they mostly mean that the Christian child will grow up to have better values and morals, not necessarily more money, prestige, or the like.