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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
August 4, 2011 at 1:36 am
(August 3, 2011 at 8:53 pm)Salty Amy Wrote: So how do you explain the almight USA on this theory of yours?
Who says the USA is a developed nation? Massive amounts of poverty, anti-science oganisations gutting school curricula, politicians who pray for rain (such as Tex. Gov. Rick Perry).
My village streets here are all dirt, there is no public transportation, they're trying to close the post office and make this epilepsy-suffer go fifteen miles one way for his mail, no TV or Radio stations, no chance for a real high speed Internet network such as the UK or Japan or South Korea.
Wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, infrastructure such as the Chicago Skyway being sold to foreign companies. I submit this is not a developed nation. We have some toys we borrowed the money for, and a frightfully large military, but that is all.
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
August 4, 2011 at 3:49 am
People in developed countries are educated about science, which together with a deep ignorance of religion leads them to reach an absurd position to it (ie scientific). They are simply unable to think past their indoctrination.
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
August 4, 2011 at 8:52 am
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(August 4, 2011 at 3:49 am)fr0d0 Wrote: People in developed countries are educated about science, which together with a deep ignorance of religion leads them to reach an absurd position to it (ie scientific). They are simply unable to think past their indoctrination.
Atheism even in developed nations is a minority world-view, a lot of people while rejecting religions such as Christianity and Islam, are still open to believing all sorts of nonsense which leads to parents not vaccinating their children or people to prefer using homoeopathy over conventional medical treatments.
Our society needs people to be more scientifically informed, not less. So that people are far less likely to believe in this sort of non-sense.
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
August 4, 2011 at 11:16 am
What, you mean "goddidit" isn't the sort of TOE that would lead to the betterment of the lives of humanity as whole. News to some.
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
August 4, 2011 at 3:25 pm
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(August 4, 2011 at 8:52 am)Ziggystardust Wrote: Our society needs people to be more scientifically informed, not less. So that people are far less likely to believe in this sort of non-sense. Religion has nothing to do with science. Increased knowledge of science =/= increaqsed knowledge of religion, and vice versa. Like yourself... obviously ignorant of a subject yet willing to denounce it from ignorance. Education is key. Burning books is for morons.
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
August 4, 2011 at 5:49 pm
So who is really gaining by Africa becoming a predominantly Christian continent? Is is for control? Natural Resources? Why not increase literacy rates and education instead of feeding them.. well garbage.
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
August 4, 2011 at 7:44 pm
My take is that uneducated and impoverished masses are attracted by the hope of an afterlife better than the shit one they have. At the same time, the well off masses who sign on to religion do so for their own ends.
 A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
August 4, 2011 at 9:38 pm
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(August 4, 2011 at 3:25 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Religion has nothing to do with science. Increased knowledge of science =/= increaqsed knowledge of religion, and vice versa. Like yourself... obviously ignorant of a subject yet willing to denounce it from ignorance. Education is key. Burning books is for morons.
Except when religion or the religious make a claim that provides us with a testable hypothesis. Increasing your knowledge of science does in fact increase your knowledge of religion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological_science
I do however agree wholeheartedly that increasing your knowledge of religion will do nothing for your knowledge of science.
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
August 4, 2011 at 9:44 pm
(August 4, 2011 at 1:17 am)Ziggystardust Wrote: (August 3, 2011 at 8:53 pm)Salty Amy Wrote: So how do you explain the almight USA on this theory of yours?
The USA is an outlier in many areas among Western nations.
Just a reminder as to who the g-8 countries are:
USA
Italy
Germany
France
Russia
Canada
Japan
United Kingdom
Sweeden is the oddball not USA, it´s not a $$ thing it's a scandinavian thing.
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Where do I find meaning? ----> Wikipedia -----> lazy
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
August 4, 2011 at 9:47 pm
Whats the deal, isn't everyone on the forums here an example of the US's ability to indoctrinate the youth, creating a godless society of atheists by state mandate?
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