I hope Drich is joking about this stuff.

(March 18, 2015 at 12:46 pm)abaris Wrote:

(March 18, 2015 at 2:31 am)Minimalist Wrote: and the young don't care.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/white...-religion/


I could stand having every church turned into a Starbucks even though I hate their coffee.

Bold by me. That doesn't seem to exclude any other kind of woo. New agers of all breeds and colors may be among those religiously unaffiiated.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's a good thing, that more and more people, especially when they're young, move away from scripted religion and all it's baggage, but it doesn't say they're not religious in any way shape or form.

I think a sizable proportion of them, while wooists for the time being, may well do as many of us here did in deconversion, going from biblical bullshit to Wooism to finally land at rational atheism a few years later.

(March 18, 2015 at 12:56 pm)robvalue Wrote: I hope Drich is joking about this stuff.

Better?

Just remember to turn the lights out when you leave the church.

What is with old people and lights?

You do know now a days leaving the lights on will not burn down the house right?

Wastes electricity you dumbass.

13% of the world are convinced atheists. Not surprisingly, China leads in that regard, with Japan as the next runner-up. The top ten also includes the Czech Republic, France, South Korea, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Iceland, and Australia. Ghana, Nigeria, Armenia, Fiji and Macedonia are the top five most religious countries, Globally, from 2005 to 2012, 'religiousness' dropped by 9% while atheism increased by 3%. 'Religiousness' (claiming to 'be religious' dropped 13% in the USA, from 73% to 60%. Atheism rose in the USA from 1% to 5%, though I suspect that is at least partly a difference in the willingness of people to identify as atheist rather than merely nonreligious on surveys. I don't expect a proportional gain in the 2012-2019 period, which would make us 25% of the population by 2019, but I would be surprised if our percentage of the population hasn't risen to 9 or 10% by then.


http://redcresearch.ie/wp-content/upload...5-7-12.pdf

(March 18, 2015 at 12:56 pm)robvalue Wrote: I hope Drich is jerking off to this stuff.

Fixed for higher probability.

The number of "atheists" worldwide is going to skyrocket once the stigma and misunderstandings about what the word actually means are removed.

I definitely think the Internet will be the stake in the heart.