Posted on 08/20/2011 10:40:22 PM PDT by decimon
That’s impossible! Atheists are the smartest people in the world - just ask them.
Thank the internet. Stupid people tend to believe the atheist evangelists who infest the internet like a cancer. Rather than critically examining the claims made by these individuals, the stupid will tend to succumb to the internet style of appeal to ridicule fallacy.
And people are miserable and unhappy. Women have 5 children all of which have different last names, people are popping pills for all sorts of issues, abortions are common place, we have flash mobs of violence etc.
Not attending church doesn't necessarily mean being atheist. There seems to be a lot of people fed up with churches because they are religious.
I recently posted something similar to this. That was a study dispelling the notion that people become less religious as they become more educated.
My guess is that there are two main causes for this: 1) the Hollywood/Public School system/University brainwashing is succeeding and 2) those who remain religious are becoming disgusted with many denominations’ fall into apostasy and feminism (a little redundant, I know).
That the lack of religion in their lives leads to trouble and amoral social norms, thereby increasing the likelihood that they will fall back in social status due to risky behavior; while those who attend service regularly are less likely to engage in risky behavior because they have stronger moral cohesion.
But that's just a theory...
it makes sense. The welfare state has replaced faith as a source of “comfort”. When the welfare state gives you food, tv and clothes, you cease thinking beyond putting your snout in the trough.
it’s not the ‘net. The least educated folks will not be online but in front of their television sets watching the lowest possible TV shows. This is not “atheism”, but just “I don’t care ism”. These are hardly the atheist philosophers and could barely elucidate what they do besides “uh”
True, there needs to be a solid faith formed in bedrock, continuing preaching as it has for 2000 years.
Hardly a theory — your statement was proven by the UK riots.
Romanticism/feminism have been rough on families formerly practicing their traditional belief systems in western culture countries. Those families are quite scattered, and most, no longer able to compete but only to try to survive.
We’re more ancient Roman or European Renaissance in some facets of social/religious nature, and most well-to-do folks don’t have any complaint about that. That’s one of the reasons that I, for example, left my former religion and became more monotheistic. See some of the leading men of early America and why they were “deists.” ...and why Puritans, Huguenots, all, got a little closer for a short time. Then...the effects of further floods from Europe later on (1800s, holidays, etc.).
Maybe there’s a big change ahead for all.
“That’s impossible! Atheists are the smartest people in the world - just ask them.”
Well...We are!
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Modest, too.
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So proud of this missive it is authored by “UNKNOWN”?
Have to wonder how many of the “educated” are there for family/social/business/professional reasons, rather than any real conviction.
Also have to wonder how many others of them are there for ‘activist’ subvertive reasons.
OTOH, plenty of educated people—FReepers included—won’t set foot in any local church reasonably available to them because of the liberal doctrines taught in them; yet they are deeply religous.
As for the less educated, there are already plenty of comments above.
Jesus came to make ALL religion obsolete.. AND DID!!!..
Many are starting to “git it”...
If you give them $10 Million dollars, they will invent another "study" to "prove" it.
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