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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
April 25, 2018 at 8:50 am
(April 24, 2018 at 8:25 am)Khemikal Wrote: A fact not lost on the religious, or even on magic books. People turn to god(s) in distress, and forget them in good times.
Good point Khem but not all people are that stupid and not all theists are religious.
Most people who follow a religion do so because they born in a situation where religion rule especially in Islam.
Although theists are big in number real theists are small in number.
Atheism on the other hand grow as materialism grow and this as the article say is also due to the fact that in rich countries there is less economic distress.
That however doesn't mean that in this case people are smarter.
To be smart you got to be intelligent and intelligence involve that you make the best choice which of course has zero to do with being an atheist or not. 
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
April 25, 2018 at 10:07 am
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
April 25, 2018 at 10:15 am
(April 24, 2018 at 8:25 am)Khemikal Wrote: A fact not lost on the religious, or even on magic books. People turn to god(s) in distress, and forget them in good times.
Also known as humility.
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
April 25, 2018 at 11:02 am
Is that what the body of the faithful are complaining about as their churches empty? A harmful excess of humility?
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
April 25, 2018 at 11:13 am
(April 25, 2018 at 11:02 am)Khemikal Wrote: Is that what the body of the faithful are complaining about as their churches empty? A harmful excess of humility?
On the long run everything that is build on dogma is fated to fail. 
Religions today atheism tomorrow. 
Amen. 
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
April 25, 2018 at 11:28 am
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(April 25, 2018 at 11:13 am)Little Rik Wrote: (April 25, 2018 at 11:02 am)Khemikal Wrote: Is that what the body of the faithful are complaining about as their churches empty? A harmful excess of humility?
On the long run everything that is build on dogma is fated to fail.
Religions today atheism tomorrow.
Amen. I really wish you would flush after dumping your visual diarrhea posts.
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
April 25, 2018 at 11:58 am
(April 25, 2018 at 10:15 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: (April 24, 2018 at 8:25 am)Khemikal Wrote: A fact not lost on the religious, or even on magic books. People turn to god(s) in distress, and forget them in good times.
Also known as humility.
It's also known as make believe. For some, that increases hope.
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
April 25, 2018 at 12:01 pm
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Make believe is what kids do for fun. Desperation is what adults do when they have no other recourse. This behavior has been known and exploited in christianity prior to it's calcification into a single religion, but..as has been noted since we've been talking notes, the efficacy of the con is also it's flaw. Beliefs that depend on desperation and the delivery of intangibles can't survive without that deceit, but they also fail because of it, in multiple senses.
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
April 25, 2018 at 12:15 pm
Quote:Also known as humility.
Better known as weakness and desperation
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.
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RE: Why Atheism Replaces Religion In Developed Countries
April 25, 2018 at 3:03 pm
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(April 25, 2018 at 10:15 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: (April 24, 2018 at 8:25 am)Khemikal Wrote: A fact not lost on the religious, or even on magic books. People turn to god(s) in distress, and forget them in good times.
Also known as humility.
Evidently there are meanings to the word 'humble' I haven't previously encountered.
Christians claim, via pray, to have one on one communication with the creator of the universe. That's humility is it?
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
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