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Even god's poll numbers are slipping

Is America moving away from god at last?

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Permalink Reply by William McQuesten on July 31, 2011 at 11:21am

I believe there will be a lot of theist defections in the future. Most of this can be directly attributed to the internet, and in particular, sites like You Tube. Atheists are doing a bang-up job of presenting our case, encouraging people to start thinking for themselves.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Dodds on August 9, 2011 at 11:48pm

I see the rising population of nonbelievers in this country as a potentially a double-edged sword. Sure it helps the nonbeliever community grow stronger by deconverting some more moderate and liberal believers to our cause. However, those believers that remain will be extremely devoted to their faiths. Our rising population will also make many of them more determined than ever to stop us. I'm not saying that there's no hope. By mentioning this, I'm hoping the nonbeliever community realizes this and braces itself for a lot more attacks, some of them may be ACTUAL attacks.

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Permalink Reply by Atheist Andrea on July 31, 2011 at 12:15pm

Do you have any numbers? I would like to find out how many people in the world believe in a deity versus those who do not.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Dodds on July 31, 2011 at 1:15pm

If you click on the link it explains the whole poll numbers. People who approve of god's handling of things barely break 50% in this country, while those who openly disapprove are at 9%.

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Permalink Reply by Atheist Andrea on August 6, 2011 at 8:22pm

Oh thanks, I guess I didn't see the link.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Dodds on August 6, 2011 at 10:52pm

No problem, what I wanna know is, what's the current percentage of nonbelievers in America? The last I heard it was 17.5% or something along those lines and that was in 2009.

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Permalink Reply by Steph S. on August 11, 2011 at 10:39am

Andrea, Adherents.com has a statistical chart that is shows the different religions and their numbers.

Christianity: 2.1 billion
Islam: 1.5 billion
Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion

http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

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Permalink Reply by Steph S. on August 11, 2011 at 10:41am

These numbers are worldwide though.

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Permalink Reply by Astroslav on August 2, 2011 at 1:50am

I wish to see the end of the Dark Ages, which still haunt us to this day. My own observations, however, are, unfortunately, point to the fact that former Christians that realize that Bible is utter nonsense become various spiritualists and conspiracy theorists that believe in some other "great outside source" like the latest Ancient Alien theory show on History Channel, it's essentially a new, emerging religion for a lot of people who have stopped fooling themselves that they believe in a Bible. God is being replaced by magical Aliens that created people and guided our evolution, and some nonsense like that. I may be overreacting but some people close to me have made the transformation from believing in God to believing in Aliens that made humans in their image...

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Permalink Reply by Chris Dodds on August 2, 2011 at 10:21am

I like that show. I don't believe in the theory that aliens had a hand in creating us, but occasionally you can learn some things about religions. Like on the episode exploring the possibility that angels were inspired by aliens, I learned that the classics depictions of winged angels in Judeo-Christian mythology are yet another example of the Judeo-Christian faith adopting another religions myths.

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Permalink Reply by Astroslav on August 2, 2011 at 10:33am

It can be entertaining if you have a firm grasp on reality, especially archaeology, but for many people it's a source for a new religion. The conclusions reached on that show are all easily disproved by any real archaeologist.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Dodds on August 4, 2011 at 7:32am

True, and like I said, I don't necessarily believe in the Anceint Aliens theory, it's just fun to see the kinds of evidence they try to present. After they try to present something as evidence, I google it to try and get the real story. But you've gotta admit, the aliens thing is more likely than the traditional myths that say "god did it."