(April 22, 2015 at 9:50 am)dyresand Wrote:The future is not a given. Our current technology is making it harder for bad claims to find cover. But I hate it when atheists say "When we become the majority we will treat you better"(April 22, 2015 at 9:06 am)Brian37 Wrote: It will never die out, but it must be treated like the poison it is. No different than knowing while that pretty dormant volcano is still a volcano. Humans have rights and that should be a given, but the poison of religion is that far to many people point to the pretty and ignore the dark side.
Humans evolved to make bad guesses, that will always be part of our evolution. But we can work to improve keep those bad guesses from growing like weeds to the point of becoming destructive.
It would be nice if the world would give it up, but that seems to be impractical on a planet of 7 billion and even atheists shouldn't go about trying to push a utopia themselves. I do think it is a good goal though to push people verbally to think and push them to not allow religion to become abusive or demand taboos.
It will become the minority one day and then atheism for the most part will be dominate just not any time soon.
UM NO, again "atheist" merely means "off" or "empty" on one claim. After our current atheist minority dies out, future atheists will not have us around to be direct reminders, outside the words we record now. Atheists are still part of the same species. Our ability to be cruel or compassionate is in our evolution, not the labels we assign ourselves or others. Not even atheists should forget that.
