(December 20, 2013 at 2:23 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote:(December 20, 2013 at 2:08 pm)Cinjin Wrote: I'd wager that we have at least 200 years before christianity is the religious minority in the US, and about 500 years before Islam even starts to decline over there in the armpit of the world.
One encouraging stat in that poll was the youngest group (18-36) had the lowest level of god-belief - 64%. Another ten years and maybe it drops another 10 points; getting close to the magical 50% mark.
Keeping religious BS out and teaching science in schools is the ticket. That and ridicule in popular culture.
I imagine South Park has done more damage to religious belief than thousands of intellectual atheists arguing on the net about ontological this and teleological that. They make it seem, so.... silly. Satire slaughters those sacred cows.
Yeah but I don't watch south park cause it shows a lot of disgusting shit to.
