(February 3, 2017 at 4:04 pm)ronedee Wrote:(February 3, 2017 at 12:13 pm)Nihilist Virus Wrote: A religion must contain some kind of supernatural belief. Most religions contain one or more deities, miracles/magic, and an essence of the self that persists through death.
If the list of oughts and ought nots of secular humanism constitute a religion, then what about law? Is law also a religion?
By my reckoning, the majority of people with a PhD have no beliefs in deities, miracles/magic, or an essence of the self that persists through death. Therefore such people are without religion regardless of what they believe.
If the standard of education reaches the point where a high school education becomes equivalent to today's PhD, and if you combine this with the trend that we already see of people leaving religion, then the extinction is inevitable.
All we really need is for Islamic nations to modernize because in their current state there is virtually no selective pressure on Islam.
LOL! You post one article from WOPO 2012, listing data from 2008. And another from the Barna Group that has been criticized for their botched data!
Who's pissing on who's leg?
Believe what you want. I am there! In the church and congregation..... so don't tell me anything if you are NOT!
I haven't posted any article. You make less and less sense as time goes on.
Jesus is like Pinocchio. He's the bastard son of a carpenter. And a liar. And he wishes he was real.
