Is Atheism on the rise?

[abaris]

What? I'm supposed to bring up evangelical influence in Africa when talking about Muslim birthrates being higher then Atheist ones?

You were talking about breeding to be precise. Which is a wording to puke over. Breeding, I may repeat. Maybe I have a thin skin because of being half jewish, but tough luck. I don't accept that kind of terminology from anyone in real life and I certainly don't accept it from anyone on an internet forum. I consider anyone using it for any of their fellow humans to be a lowlife. I'm not here to win a popularity contest and so I'm certainly not playing nice nice when anyone sees fit to pound their right wing chest.

[The Grand Nudger]

As the proud owner of a brood, which I acquired through excessive breeding, I can tell you that I don't find the language offensive, personally.  Now if only the rest of you would get to work we'd have this in the fuckin bag!

[The Valkyrie]

We should out breed the religious - through cloning.

We have science on OUR side.

[The Grand Nudger]

That sounds like -alot- less fun.

[The Valkyrie]

That sounds like -alot- less fun.

more fun for the women.

[Incognito]

Yeah, in the first world it is for sure. Which is pretty amazing considering the amount of money that religious organizations spend on proselytizing and that Atheists don't spend anything.

Globally though first world Atheists are being outbred by far. It's sort of a race to see if we can spread ideas faster then the Muslims can breed and brainwash.

I didn't know religious organizations are spending money. What are they spending it on?

[The Grand Nudger]

That sounds like -alot- less fun.

more fun for the women.

I can only imagine how shitty the quality of men must be where you're at............ 

I didn't know religious organizations are spending money. What are they spending it on?

Largely, the administrative costs of their own organizations...but after that, evangelism, the usual. It's quite the tidy sum, billions - globally.

[Mister Agenda]

The sudden loss of conviction and fealty across a broad swath of US christendom regarding their support of an open and notorious adulterer for president (despite holding the line as recently as Newt Gingrich's run just a few years ago) is telling.

Apparently at their recent meeting with Trump not a single one of these representatives of Christ actually bothered to witness the Word to Trump !!!  They were content with rubber stamping some SCOTUS choices.

This pernicious moral decay (by their previous standards) at the very top of the evangelical org chart should be sufficient for a million atheist victory parade in Washington DC.

Kinda takes some of the fun out of being an atheist as they pragmatically lurch away from the Lord, don't it ?

PRAISE Go fuck yourself, Jesus, we know better than you !!

Fundamentalists have been our best allies when it comes to setting people on the course to become atheists.

[vorlon13]

And it belies so much of the message.

Newt Gingrich took quite a bit of heat for his open and notorious philandering from the evangelicals and fundamentalists when he was running, Trump none at all. Supposedly the bible hasn't changed since God dictated it, so what the fuck did change in the last few years ???

And how does stuff change in that conservative religious orbit? Especially with an eternal and unchanging deity running the universe ???

Is there a smoke filled (incense or tobacco?) room somewhere with a committee of the 'faithful' that does in fact change shit as they determine it needs changed ??

And how is this communicated to the pew warmers so that they don't notice/rise up/have their pious heads explode ??

Even the dimmest bulbs in the flock surely must have noted a 180 degree flip on adultery in the last few years, so how is that startling (unGodly?) change in their revered beliefs processed ??

[Simon Moon]

I'll add my bit to this discusion.

To those that claim they neither believe or disbelieve and use the agnostic label, it is my contention, and that of contemporary phylosophers of mind, belief is a binary mental state.therefor it is not possible to be between belief and disbelief.

Belief is the mental state in which one accepts a premise as being true. Either one accepts the premise that at least one god exists (theism), or one does not accept that premise (atheism).

There is no way to be 'between belief and disbelief' as many agnostic claim.