There is a lot I can say but for starters there must be a way of getting the word out like advertisement and such but also have a larger audience which should entice younger Atheists. I am a member of American Atheist and yet it feels as if there…
Nov 9, 2011
Question posed to Hitchens: Who created evil?
Hitchens: Religion!
What are the different types of Atheist is my question but what I have found is there are just people. Everyone has a different opinion on things and at times you do find like minded people but in the end it's really your opinion and their opinion. I do believe there are strong Atheists and weak Atheists in a sense of people who are a part of an organization and others who just live. There have been talk of New Atheists(what religious people have come up with), GNU, etc. but to me we should not…See More
I think that, as long as there is poverty, disease, and need in the world, religion will be there to provide an opiate. People whose lives are miserable have nothing to look forward to but an afterlife where toil, disease, danger, hatred, hunger,…
Religion is already irrelevant. I really hope it dies out or becomes extremely marginalized sooner rather than later. I kind of see the recent upsurge/radicalization of religion in the US as a sign that religion isn't doing very well in general…
The world is becoming more secular.All over the world people are leaving religion.I think in the next 150 years atheists will out number Christians.I think in the next 300 years most of the world will be Atheist and by the next 350 years only Atheist
Unfortunately, much as one might wish it to be so, religion is not yet irrelevant because it commands the attention and attracts the affiliation of the majority of humans to a varying extent, and influences a great deal of decision-making and action…
Religion is already irrelevant.
In many cases religion has been replaced by woo like chrystal healing and UFO cults.
It should be possible to replace all that with a non-super religion, perhaps some form of humanism?
I think that evolution will take care of religion. Humans no longer need to rely on the fairy tales passed down from our ancestors to survive, our brains are taking care of that. Eventually reason will win out, and from that religion will die.
Don't hold your breath.
Religion was invented by humans to meet a a range of human needs, such as explaining the weather, giving the illusion of order,purpose and control and of course to help face the fear of death.
Some of these needs have…
There are highly plausible hypotheses, from the fields of evolutionary psychology and evolutionary anthropology, for example, that the adaptive role played by religion in the ecological success and survival of groups of H. sapiens, i.e. in terms of…