Re: RE: The growth of atheism
June 1, 2013 at 10:55 am
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2013 at 10:56 am by Tom540.)
(May 26, 2013 at 12:49 pm)CleanShavenJesus Wrote: In the world today, "no religious affiliation" is the third largest religious affiliation. Over 1.1 billion people identify as "atheist" around the world.
Atheism is at an all-time high right now. What do you think the stats will be in another 50 years? Will there ever be more atheists in the world than Muslims or Christians?
In 50 years I am pretty sure atheists, or at least non believers, will be a far greater percentage. Going to a Christian primary school and now a Christian secondary, more and more people brought up in Christian families are moving away from religion; in fact, people are actually standing up for their beliefs.
I remember the week before we broke up, probably a few weeks ago, during an RE lesson when praying someone refused to participate, keeping his hands in his pockets. When asked why they weren't joining in, they simply said "I don't believe in god", to which the RE teacher was horrified. Talking to others, next to no one believes in god, Jesus, the Bible, although some do believe in an afterlife.
I think this is great, I doubt there will be many theists in my generation (in the UK at least).
