(March 7, 2015 at 10:12 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: 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.
Over the years I have grown to hate the word "belief" regarding any label.
"Beliefs" are merely positions a person holds.
When someone says "I am a Christian" it isn't like you can draw their blood, extract their DNA and find a "Christian gene". So what they are really saying is "I hold the position that the Christian god is the one true god".
When I say "I am an atheist" again it isn't like you can extract my DNA and find an "Atheist" gene. So the reality is that it is merely my position that there is no god.
The only thing that all 7 billion humans can say that we all have in common is "I am a human" and that we can extract DNA to prove we are homo sapiens.
Our boarders an politics religions social norms are merely what we buy into because of what we are used to.