(June 22, 2015 at 12:09 am)JuliaL Wrote:(June 21, 2015 at 11:45 pm)Godslayer Wrote: That's^ ridiculous and completely pessimistic. The only way religion would take hold again in a world full of atheists would be if society collapsed and we went back to the stone age or something.
A population free of dogma entering the technological age no less would be far less vulnerable to such superstitious dribble, religiosity would be a ulta-minority position like atheism was for most of history.
You have way too much confidence in the intelligence of the average human and way too little understanding of the creativity of the selfish.
But what would people be like in a world in which people would all become atheists?
This world is not going to give up on religion, at least not any time soon. But if people were such that they would, they would be different from the way they are now.
Also, if you think about the way people are now, very few people who are raised as atheists ever become religious. So once we got to a point where everyone starts out as atheists, religion would have a very difficult time catching on, even if people were otherwise exactly as they are now.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
