RE: Atheism, the short lived idea?
October 9, 2010 at 3:33 am
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2010 at 3:44 am by Anomalocaris.)
China seems to contain twice as many atheists as there are people in Europe and North America combined, indeed more atheists than there are Muslims in the whole world put together. Given china's expected rise to become the premier industrial and commercial power over the next century, and probably technological and scientific power as well, I would expect atheism to become more influential than any time in human history regardless of what happens in Europe and north America.
The other really great rising power, India, is not atheistic but trenchantly polytheistic. If India also rises to the same level of influence and wealth china is expected to reach in 50 years, then I think judaism derived family of monotheistic faiths will, taken together (horrible thought for their respective followers, I know), lose it's position as the most influential system of beliefs in the world for the first time since Muslim conquest of 8-9th century.
BTW, just a few examples of the worst that Christians can do in 20th and 21st century can be found in the Balkans, I am pretty sure within your life time, unless you are less than 12. It included Christian militias gluing crosses onto their assault rifle butts lest there be any confusion about who it was that was committing genocide against local Muslims population as well as fellow Christians of a slightly different flavor.
The other really great rising power, India, is not atheistic but trenchantly polytheistic. If India also rises to the same level of influence and wealth china is expected to reach in 50 years, then I think judaism derived family of monotheistic faiths will, taken together (horrible thought for their respective followers, I know), lose it's position as the most influential system of beliefs in the world for the first time since Muslim conquest of 8-9th century.
BTW, just a few examples of the worst that Christians can do in 20th and 21st century can be found in the Balkans, I am pretty sure within your life time, unless you are less than 12. It included Christian militias gluing crosses onto their assault rifle butts lest there be any confusion about who it was that was committing genocide against local Muslims population as well as fellow Christians of a slightly different flavor.
