(February 4, 2019 at 7:20 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(February 4, 2019 at 7:10 pm)PRJA93 Wrote: Because enough time has passed for people to realize that there's no reason to actually believe that fairies exist. Just as enough time has passed for people to realize that Zeus is just a myth. A little more time will pass and eventually Christianity will enter into the "Religious Mythology" category.
Also, how is it so hard for you to believe that some people simply don't think about the fact that they're atheists? I mean, they're right here telling you, "It's not important to me" and instead of simply taking their word for it, you ramble on about brain scans which you've yet to cite your source for. Are you just disingenuous on purpose or are you really that stupid? I honestly don't believe you're that dumb, do let's see some sources that you feel back your claims, or you can kindly take your nonsense elsewhere.
People have been saying that for a very long time, yet religions as a global phenomenon has been going strong, while it might be on the decline in the west, it’s growing in places like China, Africa, etc...
Secondly even in the west were the trend is a rejection of traditional religions, this generally doesn’t correspond to atheism, but a sort benign new age woo, of folks like Opera, and Gwenyth Paltrow, and Deepak Chopra, Jordan Peterson, etc...
In fact it seems that while the four horsemen and stuff were prominent figures a decade ago, they’ve all pretty much faded away, or been plagued by some sex scandal. They” same demographic that was once the heart of atheism, white males, have shifted to new arenas, such as anti-feminism, and anti-pc culture, often aligning themselves with conservatives.
(February 4, 2019 at 7:10 pm)PRJA93 Wrote: Because enough time has passed for people to realize that there's no reason to actually believe that fairies exist. Just as enough time has passed for people to realize that Zeus is just a myth. A little more time will pass and eventually Christianity will enter into the "Religious Mythology" category.
Also, how is it so hard for you to believe that some people simply don't think about the fact that they're atheists? I mean, they're right here telling you, "It's not important to me" and instead of simply taking their word for it, you ramble on about brain scans which you've yet to cite your source for. Are you just disingenuous on purpose or are you really that stupid? I honestly don't believe you're that dumb, do let's see some sources that you feel back your claims, or you can kindly take your nonsense elsewhere.
People are horrible at self reporting. But brain scans suggest otherwise, similiar regions of the brain light up when confirming one’s theistic or atheistic beliefs, areas corresponding to our sense of self. Our rewards center also light up when doing so.
It also doesn’t take a genius, to realize that atheists often see themselves as very different than their religious counterparts,as clear, rational thinkers, compared to the rest of humanity whose deluded, and believes in fairy tales and myths, they alone possess the truth. That’s a pretty distinct sense of self.
You ramble on and on without providing any sources to back your claims. You have been disingenuous in this thread and in many others... When will it stop?
Today's Christians would've been considered heretics and burned at the stake in Europe or hanged here in the US just a couple of hundred years ago. As churches grow more and more desperate to fill their pews, they resort to doing things that would be considered sinful and blasphemous in past times. People are less religious in America today and that's a fact. This is even something often discussed in Christian churches today, as many Christians complain about the world around them becoming less and less about Jesus and more about themselves. The more time that passes, the more people that will stop identifying as religious, and the more Christians that will become less and less to devoted to the very book they claim to believe in. Rational, logical thought cannot be escaped.
Also, I'm not claiming that atheists are all that different from theists. We're not. We simply don't believe in bronze age fairy tales that have little to no basis in reality concerning an imaginary deity that does not exist.
What the fuck are you babbling about?
Show sources to back up your claims about brain scans or please shut up. Even IF what you are saying is true, and you DO have sources to back your claims, that's not saying anything about the importance of atheism to that person, simply that the same part of the brain is used to think about the subject as in a theist's brain. Are you deluded? What are you talking about?
Also, the fact that places like Africa, where there are countries where vast amounts of people don't even have clean drinking water, are becoming more religious, does not concern me in the least bit.
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
