(April 19, 2016 at 11:32 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Over the last seven year period measured, about 18 or 1900 atheists were added in the USA while the number of Christians dropped by about 7500 a day. My estimates based on percentage increase of atheists from 1.6% to 3.1% of the population and Christians decreasing from 78% to 71%.
http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/ameri...landscape/
Yeap, we may be too harsh on Nat Geo because they recently published this news:
The World's Newest Major Religion: No Religion
More people than ever before are identifying as atheist, agnostic, or otherwise nonreligious, with potentially world-changing effects.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/...-religion/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
