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Being atheist in the Bible Belt
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RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt
(January 2, 2017 at 6:35 pm)MyelinSheath Wrote:
(January 2, 2017 at 12:28 pm)Minimalist Wrote: And yet, we are growing and they are dying out.
I think your hopes and dreams will never be realized. Religion will never die. The religious are very spunky now that their candidate won. The sentiment of authoritarian-populism is gaining immense popularity. We are at the start of a new age of governance and culture. I think you'll see the numbers of religion begin to climb from now on. I don't think atheism will last. It will be on the decline shortly.

Actually it is dying out, in the most literal sense.
Religion has lost touch with the younger generation, here in the UK that happened in the late '40s, early '50s. The WWII generation remains predominantly xtian but the are a long way from immortality, as a result the church is going into a logarithmic freefall  with a quarter-life equal to the difference between the average age of the congregation and the average life expectancy. At the same time the average age of the congregation increases by 6 months per annum, thus the church will cease to be an entity of any significance here by about 2030.
The US began this process somewhat later but is following exactly the same pattern, current projection for US church collapse about 2050-2060.
Quote:I don't understand why you'd come to a discussion forum, and then proceed to reap from visibility any voice that disagrees with you. If you're going to do that, why not just sit in front of a mirror and pat yourself on the back continuously?
-Esquilax

Evolution - Adapt or be eaten.
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Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by MyelinSheath - January 2, 2017 at 8:39 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by LastPoet - January 2, 2017 at 8:45 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by chimp3 - January 2, 2017 at 8:50 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Whateverist - January 2, 2017 at 8:53 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by MyelinSheath - January 2, 2017 at 8:55 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Whateverist - January 2, 2017 at 8:56 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Jackie - January 2, 2017 at 9:01 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by MyelinSheath - January 2, 2017 at 9:02 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by mlmooney89 - January 2, 2017 at 9:43 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Jackie - January 2, 2017 at 10:05 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by mlmooney89 - January 2, 2017 at 11:28 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Astonished - January 2, 2017 at 11:35 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Minimalist - January 2, 2017 at 12:28 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by MyelinSheath - January 2, 2017 at 6:35 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Mr Greene - January 2, 2017 at 7:53 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Minimalist - January 2, 2017 at 6:40 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by mcolafson - January 2, 2017 at 7:03 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by MyelinSheath - January 2, 2017 at 7:07 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Minimalist - January 2, 2017 at 10:04 pm
Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by KUSA - January 2, 2017 at 8:02 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by johan - January 3, 2017 at 7:39 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by The Grand Nudger - January 3, 2017 at 2:23 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Minimalist - January 3, 2017 at 2:38 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by The Grand Nudger - January 3, 2017 at 2:51 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Minimalist - January 3, 2017 at 4:16 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Alex K - January 3, 2017 at 4:06 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by The Grand Nudger - January 3, 2017 at 5:03 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Mr Greene - January 4, 2017 at 7:14 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by The Grand Nudger - January 13, 2017 at 4:51 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by AceBoogie - January 17, 2017 at 8:42 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Natachan - January 17, 2017 at 9:21 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Cyrinistar - January 17, 2017 at 9:36 am
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by The Grand Nudger - January 17, 2017 at 12:58 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Mister Agenda - January 17, 2017 at 1:02 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Elskidor - January 17, 2017 at 5:04 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by ErikB - January 21, 2017 at 5:16 pm
RE: Being atheist in the Bible Belt - by Wyrd of Gawd - January 23, 2017 at 5:01 am

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