For starters Skeptic our ideology doesn't warrant itself to the Jehovah's Witness-esque door to door method. It works for them because they are peddling bullshit. But when a stranger knocks on your door, what are you thinking about at that very moment? I'm thinking, shit, they are going to try to sell me something, maybe if I don't answer they will go away as i'd hate to have to throw someone off of my porch.
In principle atheism itself is on the rise, we've seen a lot of countries in Europe make the move to secularism in the last few decades, with America lagging behind...as always. It really depends on the people we elect into office. If everyone keeps electing uber-religious crackheads into office, then our country will continue to be theocratic. We need to elect politicians who are based in reality, whose methods and beliefs aren't in the realm of some fantasy world. It is a daunting task.
In principle atheism itself is on the rise, we've seen a lot of countries in Europe make the move to secularism in the last few decades, with America lagging behind...as always. It really depends on the people we elect into office. If everyone keeps electing uber-religious crackheads into office, then our country will continue to be theocratic. We need to elect politicians who are based in reality, whose methods and beliefs aren't in the realm of some fantasy world. It is a daunting task.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
