Atheist totalitarianism in Canada? Damn, no one told me? Who can I oppress today? I feel megalomania coming on.
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Decline of religion
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 RE: Decline of religion
March 4, 2023 at 2:07 am
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2023 at 2:08 am by Fake Messiah.)
Americans’ belief in God hit an all-time low about 6 months ago
According to a 2022 Gallup survey, the percentage of people who believe in God has dropped from 98% in the 1950s to 81% today; among Americans under 30, it is down to an unprecedented 68%. Up close, the trend looks even more dramatic. Only about half of Americans believe in “God as described in the Bible,” while about a quarter believe in a “higher power or spiritual force,” according to a Pew poll. Just one-third of Generation Z say they believe in God without a doubt. Congregational membership, too, is at an all-time low. In 2021 Gallup found that, for the first time ever, fewer than half of Americans – 47% – were members of a church, synagogue or mosque. Yet another crucial measure of institutional religion in the U.S., the percentage of people identifying as religious, is also at a low: About 1 in 5 adults now say they have no religious affiliation, up from 1 in 50 in 1960. In short, when it comes to three key realms of religious life – belief, behavior and belonging – all are lower than they have ever been in American history. https://www.rawstory.com/americans-belief-in-god/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
 (March 3, 2023 at 11:33 am)HappySkeptic Wrote: Atheist totalitarianism in Canada? Damn, no one told me? Who can I oppress today? I feel megalomania coming on. You just didn't realize it, what with living in a socialist nightmare. Boru
‘Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bill Maher about the big increase of Non-believers
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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