(July 10, 2010 at 12:16 pm)Godhead Wrote: You're equating belief in god or spirit with religion in particular. The number of people believing in a religion may be decreasing but that's not what I said. You don't have to be in a religion to believe in god. So the number of religious people can decrease, while the number of those who believe in god yet aren't in a religion can increase.
And you have as much evidence to back that up as you have that god exists in the first place... which is none. Logically... if there are more and more people leaving religion, there are probably more and more people admitting (to themselves) that they do not believe in god.
Let's say 100 people leave a religion and 40 of them are now atheists, that leaves 60 people that believe in god without religion... out of an original 100 people. That does not increase the number of people believing in god. Unless you are saying that these people are somehow converting atheists to join them in their belief without religion... which is ludicrous.
You sure seem to have a lot of "beliefs that you'll never get rid of" even though you have no proof (or evidence) to support those beliefs. Wanting something to be true is not a valid way of deciding to believe that it is. It's childish and intellectually dishonest.
