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Has Atheism gone underground to evolve and raise its ugly head out of the muck to a more receptive crowd someday?

Posted - May 9, 2018
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  • 5835
    Here's a story just for you:

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-antireligious-museums-of-atheism
      May 9, 2018 10:44 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    "Christians are so much unlike Christ" Gandhi said.  Wonder what he meant by that?
      May 9, 2018 11:59 PM MDT
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  • 5835
      May 10, 2018 5:17 AM MDT
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  • 1305
    I think that was when he was barred from entering a church and called a Kaffir This post was edited by kjames at May 13, 2018 3:59 PM MDT
      May 13, 2018 3:10 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    Not at all. Non-belief and secularism is on the rise worldwide. Even the Pope has publicly recognized the “threat of secularism”, to his version of the what the world should be.
    Some surveys have put atheism and irreligiosity at 23% of the US population (about the same as Catholicism), higher in places in Europe. There countless studies that have shown religiosity is inversely proportional to the level of a given demographic’s education. In fact it has been estimated 93% of the top minds in the Sciences are not believers.
    Not coincidentally, Apostasy is on the rise in the Muslim world as well, as even more members of those cultures begin to openly question their dogmas. 
    “Religion is recognized by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”  -Seneca the Younger

    It appears humanity is ever-so-slowly raising it’s collective head out of the muck of backward superstition. This post was edited by Don Barzini at May 10, 2018 6:40 AM MDT
      May 10, 2018 4:33 AM MDT
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  • 135
    Interesting that for religion to flourish it needs a high birth rate, indoctrnation and a relatively low level of education whereas atheism only needs education, in other words how to think, not what to think.
      June 6, 2018 3:39 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    Or just the opportunity and initiative to think...
      June 6, 2018 4:59 PM MDT
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  • 135
    After indoctrination the opportunity may be there but by that time sadly the very ability to think against what has been drummed into them is lacking.
      June 6, 2018 5:04 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    maybe
      May 13, 2018 4:22 PM MDT
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  • 1326
    Atheism, latest fast growing religion, or is it a cult like the rest of religions? This post was edited by Autumnleaves at June 7, 2018 12:06 AM MDT
      June 7, 2018 12:05 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    Atheism is like a no-name brand because it is not a religion and cheaper and just as good if not BETTER than any religion. This post was edited by Kittigate at June 7, 2018 12:25 AM MDT
      June 7, 2018 12:22 AM MDT
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  • 1326
    Only cause you say so.
      June 7, 2018 8:51 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    Ok but the mind of the atheist is generally not pickled in the kind of juice of what the Religious Right powers-that-be like to promote. 
      June 7, 2018 9:09 AM MDT
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