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I wonder.. will living past 2012 cause a spike in atheism?

post your thoughts and predictions!!

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Permalink Reply by Dallas (on hiatus) on January 8, 2011 at 6:15pm

No. People have been predicting the end ever since we could make complete sentences. The fact that these things never come to pass hasn't changed people yet.

Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on January 8, 2011 at 6:22pm

Agreed.

Permalink Reply by Tommy on January 8, 2011 at 6:26pm

LOL this is only the latest of end of the world predictions. The looneys will just start looking for the next one.

Permalink Reply by Donegal on January 8, 2011 at 7:33pm

Though it may lead some people to atheism, I don't think it will be any spectacular change. In fact, I won't be surprised at all if many people find some way to blame science and scientists for their fear of 2012 in the first place (History Channel, I'm lookin' at you).

Permalink Reply by Stephan Vladimir Bugaj on January 8, 2011 at 9:54pm

Probably not.
On the other hand, if I live past the age of 2012 years old, I may start to consider theism. But even then, only briefly before rejecting the idea.

Permalink Reply by Prog Rock Girl on January 9, 2011 at 1:23pm

If you live to be 2012 years old you should probably think back to whether you repressed the memory of someone making you into a vampire!

Permalink Reply by David Layton on January 9, 2011 at 2:55pm

No. There are actually very few who truly believe the 2012 scare, and they will simply find something else to be scared about.

Permalink Reply by The Secular One on January 9, 2011 at 5:41pm

Nope. It will come and go, and they will just change the Armageddon date to something else. Same as always.

Permalink Reply by Jason L Fish on January 9, 2011 at 7:14pm

thats what i figured :/ WHY CANT THEY JUST STOP MAKEING EXCUSES!! lol

Permalink Reply by deja hodge on August 13, 2011 at 1:59pm

because they want to scare us into believing in their bs

Permalink Reply by Sean Murphy on February 10, 2011 at 10:09am

When people are firmly convinced that the world will end on a specific date, and then it doesn't - they decide that something saved the world. In one case the members of this cult were congratulating each other for hte "fact" that their faith and purity saved the world! This came up during the section on Cognitive Dissonance in Psychology classes way back in University.

Besides, it will be easy for non-Mayans to dismiss the 2012 Mayan calendar thing that they are taking so seriously now, and Mayans don't believe that nothingness follows the end of the world but rather that it is created anew, as it has been several times in the past, so they won't have any issues with surviving it.

Permalink Reply by James LaRocca on February 11, 2011 at 1:22pm

yeah....I doubt it. The religious have become rather stubborn in their faith. Most will probably just say that human error caused a failure in interpreting their god's plans for the "end of days".