I am amazed how much atheism is growing around the world..
Many say they are fed up with organized religion, but denying GOD out of exsistence is pure travesty for the human race...
Why? The Bible tells us that it would be this way.
Maybe they've seen the vociferously religious at work and it turned them off...
Atheism is an organized religion.
I am amazed how much atheism is growing around the world..
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Atheism. like liberalism, has become a religion.
"I am amazed how much atheism is growing around the world.. "
Be of good cheer.
At least you should be cheered up a bit if you get a copy of this book.
(By the way, the author's Oxford office is pretty close to Richard Dawkin's)
The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World
by Alister Mcgrath
http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Atheism-Disbelief-Modern-World/dp/0385500610/sr=1-2/qid=1166468979/ref=pd_bbs_2/105-0208284-0061234?ie=UTF8&s=books
www.godlessinamerica.com/numbersgame
http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/okeefe112603.html
"I am amazed how much atheism is growing around the world.. Many say they are fed up with organized religion, but denying GOD out of exsistence is pure travesty for the human race..." ~ TaraP
Ain't gonna happen - fear not.
"... They’re just leftist counterfeiters trafficking in reflected light." ~ Robert Godwin
The same point is made in paragraph three (excerpted from the thread linked below)
A fresh wave of atheistic books has hit the market this autumn, some climbing onto best-seller lists in what proponents see as a backlash against the way religion is entwined in politics. ..... [snip] The Rev. James Halstead, chairman of the Department of Religious Studies at Chicago's DePaul University, says the phenomenon is really "a ripple caused by the book publishing industry."
"These books cause no new thought or moral commitment. The arguments are centuries old," he told Reuters. Some believers, he added, "are no better. Their conception of God, the Divine-Human-World relationship are much too simplistic and materialistic." Too often, he said, the concept "God" is misused "to legitimate the self and to beat up other people ... to rehash that same old theistic and atheistic arguments is a waste of time, energy and paper."
Dr. Timothy Larsen, professor of theology at Wheaton College in Illinois, says any growth in interest in atheism is a reflection of the strength of religion -- the former being a parasite that feeds off the latter. That happened late in the 19th century America when an era of intense religious conviction gave rise to voices like famed agnostic Robert Ingersoll, he said. .." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1722230/posts
4 posted on 12/20/2006 11:45:37 AM EST by Matchett-PI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1756237/posts?page=4#4
The Integral Embrace of Lies and Truth (Robert Godwin)
OneCosmos ^ | Dec. 20, 2006 | Robert Godwin
Posted on 12/20/2006 9:24:05 AM EST by Yardstick
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1756237/posts