(June 27, 2017 at 10:28 am)Jehanne Wrote:(June 27, 2017 at 8:25 am)SteveII Wrote: Typical new atheist: angry, knows so little about what he is arguing about. Thinks the force of his inch-deep arguments are all that is needed to persuade the world of the rightness of his position and is confused and angry when Christianity continues to grow on one end of the spectrum and atheism languishes as a small sliver of the pie at the other end, generation after generation.
Steve,
You know that this is absolutely false; that religious fundamentalism is in decline and secularism is on the rise. Geesh, a mere 400 years ago anyone who was an atheist would have had their tongue torn from their mouth and then would be dragged kicking and screaming to the town square to be burned alive at the stake. And, so, yes, times have changed, and are changing!
No, you have to distinguish between what you would like to see and what really is happening. There are more and more Christians in the world every year and atheism remains stagnant. Pew projects 750,000,000 more Christians (not even counting other religions) by 2050 and just 30,000,000 more atheists. That's 25:1.
Come on Jehanne--you need to do better getting your compelling message out there! You're slacking!
http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/relig...2010-2050/
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...opulation/
