RE: Is Atheism on the rise?
June 23, 2016 at 7:28 am
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2016 at 7:28 am by Cyberman.)
Shortly after Sam and I got together, there was a trivial inciting incident which I won't get into here, but basically having me enter her life meant that she had an open door to leave the family home and strike out with me. Her brothers and sisters realised that if she could leave, so could they. In their parents' view, I was the one who broke up the family; when all I did was show Sam the world outside.
The internet and youtube are doing the same thing - popular youtubers and prominent atheists are showing that there's another way, a better way, than the pulpit-pounders are selling. People can now see that they don't have to be alone or that they're not bound for hell simply for not believing. They can question this stuff without the answer having to be "God" (actually, the only question to which "God" is the answer is "what do morons think is the answer to every question?")
The internet really is the place where religions come to die.
The internet and youtube are doing the same thing - popular youtubers and prominent atheists are showing that there's another way, a better way, than the pulpit-pounders are selling. People can now see that they don't have to be alone or that they're not bound for hell simply for not believing. They can question this stuff without the answer having to be "God" (actually, the only question to which "God" is the answer is "what do morons think is the answer to every question?")
The internet really is the place where religions come to die.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
