Atheism on the Rise Part II

[The Comrade]

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[eynon81]

[Stratego]

The decline of religious affiliations isn't so much due to people rejecting God more. It's that modern times offer more substitutes to what the churches and temples traditionally offer. The sense of community offered by the church is replaced by other organizations like hiking buddies or comedy clubs. That's why traditionally bigger cities tend to have less churches per capita. Other things offered by the church, such as self-esteem despite not able to get sex (since the church painted abstinence as being more holy) is now replaced by the ability to get sex. In short, the decline of churches isn't due to God being any more ridiculous than before, it's due to the church having more competition than before.

[JDHURF]

[eynon81]

[abovez]

atheism is irrelevant and irrational

These studies don't really mean much due to the way the categorize atheists as simply not religious. If you categorize someone who is not an adherent of a specific religion that attends church regularly, etc. that would make someone like me an atheist, which is ridiculous.

Strictly speaking the people who would qualify as atheists (those that believe there is no God or those that believe that all there is, is nature) would fall under the 1% mark.

Negligible. Who cares about them.

[J.K. Gregg]

[Breakage]

[Spider]