(June 27, 2017 at 4:27 pm)SteveII Wrote:(June 27, 2017 at 4:09 pm)Jehanne Wrote: You don't know China's future any more than I do; in fact, it may be the repression in China with their Great Firewall that is leading scores of individuals down the path of ignorance into the nonsense of religious faith. And, I have no idea of how you can say that Europe, with 300 million people and with over one-half of all Nobel Prize winners, is somehow "irrelevant".
So, China's population was largely atheists a generation ago and now, because they can't get the full internet, their population (by the tens of millions) can't resist the slide into ignorance and nonsense without the government telling them what to believe. Boy, atheism is complicated!!
LOL, Europeans giving Europeans awards--that is a true sign of relevance! Listen, it's not that I don't like Europe, but you can't imagine that they are going to be anywhere near the force they were when they had armies and navies controlling the trading of the world. That time has long past. It is only that they have banded together that they are of any economic relevance today. Politically? Do they have any power in the world?
You have absolutely no evidence whatsoever that China, as a whole, was ever atheistic a generation ago. Perhaps this was true of some in the Communist Party but not true of the populace, as a whole. But, who really cares? You can try to convert as many people as you want to your nonsensical and false belief system; we and I will do our best to deconvert them, or better yet, help them not to waste their time, energy and money going down that futile path to begin with!
As for Europe's influence in the World, you might as well try to argue the fact that the Earth is flat by doubting that Europe, as a whole, is at least influential, if not more so, than the United States.
