Are athiests the last hope for a world that's going crazy?
929473
yeah i agree, we are the only people that aren't crazy enough to start wars about our religion! these religious fanatics need to get a grip on reality..... if only they were not brainwashed and studied physics and quantum physics they would know that all that religion crap is LIES!!!!
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Atheists have seen how dangerous and frightening the rising tide of religious unreason can be, we are realising we have to defend ourselves against intolerant zealotry that is becoming incrersingly politicised and aggressively pushing it's agenda onto Goverment policy making.\n\nThose atheists who previously never formed into groups (herding atheists is traditionally like herding cats...difficult)) are now getting seriously organised at last. It is as though zealots are trying to pretend the enlightenment never happened...well it did and we will not be going back to the dark ages when superstiton and religion reigned over reason...\n\nExpect opposition to religious intolerance and unreason to be stepped up and the debate about human rights to widen. Time to see who actually holds the moral high ground and to do that we will need to examine religion very closely and confront it's postive and negative aspects then weigh up the difference.\n\nAre religions really the positive force they claim to be, or are we better off as a society ignoring them?
625723
You are correct. \n\nWhat it comes down to is that religion is irrational.
728377
it may get depressing when u come to the fact that an atheist has no one to rely on for something like eventual salvation. a belief is a powerful thing even if its based on something false. it can give that reason to go on thinking u have a purpose. an atheist hasn't got that.
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i am an atheist, and i have the same concept of time as you do. Also, i think the world will eventually be on average atheist, because science will do what it hasnt been able to do without a doubt yet, and that is to prove god doesnt exist, but there will always be people who do believe in a higher power
224527
The world is becoming exactly what it says in the Bible.  But, there are still a lot of people who believe in God.  It is just so sad that so many young ones don't.  Just remember, God isn't the one to turn against.  Satan has brought the evil into the world. Satan challenged God's universal sovereignty.
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Yes, it does seem like the end of days doesn't it? Well, people were saying that after the atomic bomb was dropped. There's even a History Channel show about this. No, I personally don't think it is, though the cruelty of humanity seems to know no bounds. \n\nBut if it's the Bible you're worried about, here's something to think on: most religons have an apcolypse story it's in Norse mythology among many others. And actually there's a lot of great Sci-fi books on there with that theory too. But we're still here. The end will come when it does, either with a bang or with a whisper. I say we shouldn't worry about the end, just live for now. JKL, Just Keep Livin'.
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More people have been killed in the history of the world for religion than for any other reason.\n\nAtheists have been shown by testing results to be the most intelligent people in society.  They also have few children, so the resources of the Earth would be conserved substantially longer.\n\nA world of atheists would be the ultimate for intellectual thought, preservation of environment, and pragmatic realization.
1112033
There will be continued efforts to make a 1 world government, but it will really take shape after the rapture.  Everybody will want to have some to feel safer (there is safety in numbers), and people will more willingly unite in hope of doing this.
201302
Atheists want to convince people there is no God because Atheism is a religion too... a belief system that they think (hope) is right.
120494
That's an excellent question and I have doubts that it will ever entirely disapear, but i think it will continue to decline especially in western culture where it seems as we're getting increasingly secular. I often think of Europe as America's older and more matured brother. They have low rates of church attendance. I think that for better or for worse, america is heading in the same direction. But as i said earlier, i don't think we'll ever see a compete eradication of religion. There are still people who believe the earth is flat, so even when all the evidence is in, there will still be people who belive in the divinity of christ. Oops, couldn't help being a little condescending towards christianity there.
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There will be! In the Bible it says that at the end of the world, God will take all His believers up to heaven with Him. Then, someone called the Anti-christ, will rise up out of the east, and call Himself a god, then he will make the world into a one-world government!
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Only through education will we rid ourselves of the virus that is religion.  Ignorance and social acceptance will be the end of us if we don't grow out of this phase.  As you are reading this, overly religious countries are refining nuclear fuel.  It will only be a matter of time until someone sets off a nuclear bomb in the name of their God.  This is our future unless we can outgrow this nonsense!
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GOD, I hopezs not...zay are too crazy vith ze beliefs here in ze Bible Belt. They vill even kill ze people in ze name of religions, Christ or ze God.  Zay cannot jest be guten (good) or live like ze good peoples.
887672
Religion shaped history but the future belongs to science-the end of organised religion is near.
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You're right.  \n\nAs man becomes more intelligent, the nonsense of religion just becomes more and more ludicrous.\n\nIt's dying fast.\n\nChurches are almost empty now.  Even those people who pretend to be religious would rather be in the DIY superstore on a Sunday instead of church.\n\nWere it not for the vast wealth of the churches, which they acquired through stealing all those years ago, Christianity plc would now be bankrupt.
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Not sure if there will be a next big one...religions as a whole are dying as we become a more enlightened and scientific species...every generation produces more rational thinkers and skeptics who recognize that there is no true religion and that religion has served it's purpose (i.e. run it's course) for humanity...with a little luck, a few millennia from now we'll be all the way there...