[Art in Idaho]

What's this, another Cloward-Piven strategy?

[Slings and Arrows]

That’s impossible! Atheists are the smartest people in the world - just ask them.

[freedomwarrior998]

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.

[LukeL]

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.

[fr_freak]

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).

[TheWriterTX]

That information can be turned around to posit another theory:

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...

[Cronos]

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.

[antceecee]

So proud of this missive it is authored by “UNKNOWN”?

[ApplegateRanch]

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.

[hosepipe]

Jesus came to make ALL religion obsolete.. AND DID!!!..
Many are starting to “git it”...

[USS Alaska]

Indeed, the study points out that modern religious institutions tend to promote a family-centered morality that valorizes marriage and parenthood, and they embrace traditional middle-class virtues such as self-control, delayed gratification, and a focus on education.

Wow, they needed a study for this?

Modern civilization has been, over the centuries, built upon the Sanctity of Marriage, an institution defined as one man and one woman.

Definitions matter, circles are round and wheels roll, a square has four equal length sides and four 90 degree angles, but it's tough to make a square roll down the hill.

[Vaduz]

Atheists = UFO Experts