Well IMO religion is dying, but all is not great because of it. People are becoming less religious mostly due to laziness and not so much because of an increase in intelligence (which is obvious, because intelligence is not really increasing). So I guess yes religion is dying, but in the slowest, most painful and most half-assed way possible.
I guess I would rather live in a country of lazy, averagely intelligent atheists than of smart-ass Christians. (Does that make me a bad person?)
I guess I would rather live in a country of lazy, averagely intelligent atheists than of smart-ass Christians. (Does that make me a bad person?)
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
