RE: If I were an Atheist
March 9, 2015 at 9:56 am
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2015 at 9:58 am by Mr Greene.)
(March 8, 2015 at 1:38 pm)Drew_2013 Wrote:Quote:Atheism isn't a growing movement because it isn't a movement at all. It's a belief. Not organized and not well funded. It is growing however. Just about every poll backs that up.
Not even 5% of the population (in the USA) claims to be atheist. I believe it has flat lined for decades...show me otherwise?
Quote:A 2001 survey directed by Dr. Ariela Keysar for the City University of New York indicated that, amongst the more than 100 categories of response, "no religious identification" had the greatest increase in population in both absolute and percentage terms. This category included atheists, agnostics, humanists, and others with no theistic religious beliefs or practices. Figures are up from 14.3 million in 1990 to 34.2 million in 2008, representing an increase from 8% of the total population in 1990 to 15% in 2008.[4] A nation-wide Pew Research study published in 2008 put the figure of unaffiliated persons at 16.1%,[57] while another Pew study published in 2012 was described as placing the proportion at about 20% overall and roughly 33% for the 18–29-year-old demographic.[64]
Quote:Quote:In Europe the picture looks a whole lot different. In my country for example 59 percent of the people identify themselves as in no shape and form religious. Also what have numbers to do with anything? There have been and still are very popular movements that proved to be wrong or despicable.
But they don't refer to themselves as atheists either correct?
Do not believe in any god or gods = atheist
Do you require a definition?
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