is athiesm growing?

Question

is athiesm/agnostic/non spiritual population growing in the world, europe, and america?

let's hope so!!

Answer 1

No. Just the opposite.

Answer 2

I think people are tired of fatalistic holy war dogma based religions like, Christians, Muslims, and Jewish Faiths are based on. I don't think it is happening though, I wish it were, this same old tired war we have been repeating for 2000 + years is BS.

There were scholars before Monotheism who were making the philosophical leap from polytheism to atheism before Christianity popped on the scene. At least the Jewish kept their faith to themselves. Christians couldn't do this and they provoked the Muslims into this crap during the crusades.

We need philosophers and thinkers, to break the cycle of the self
destructive nature of the desert religions. I am personally a Buddhist and find it a much more rational path, it has it's spiritual side but works like the Dhammapada are profound and littered with common sense.

Answer 3

It seems like it. Some of it may have to do with education, but also people have the freedom to believe whatever they want in many parts of the world.

Answer 4

To some point because many people don't want GOD (The Creator)....However, if atheism was growing that much there wouldn't be people getting married under GOD'S Laws, Nor Hospital Chapplins, or Prision Chapplins, or the Pledge Alliegence To the Flag, or Court Rooms that Honor GOD, or Money made in america with the engraving of "In GOD We Trust"....etc. etc. etc......This nation was founded by beliefs that there is a GOD (Creator) which is Greater than mankind!!!....so my answer would be NO!......(Psalms 14: 1)......

Answer 5

Sure, it's growing. Not because "God" is bad, but rather due to a backlash against all of the extremism-- (read: terrorism, violence, close-mindedness) that the fundamentalists, of any sect, prescribe. So long as there are gross examples of *WHY* religion is bad, people will shy away from it... especially, the fundamentalists.

Answer 6

Let's hope for the sake of argument... that is world as we as a people are coming into learning the truth...the truth about life, love and everything around us... now call that atheistic or whatever..but I choose that over choking to death over the lies of a christian

Answer 7

Yes, it is the fastest growing belief of them all. Due to scientific advances and proof that leaves religion in the dust, many more are realizing the truth about life on planet earth. Muslims will be the last to fall but they will fall hard!

Answer 8

I think it is.... generations of free thinkers that question things that our parents didn't. More and more of us are digging in and wanting prove as to why things are the way there are... IE.. evolution. We are not quietly sitting by and believing everything about religion that generations before us have. We are going with whats in our heads and in our hearts instead of what our parents told us to believe in. That's just my opinion on this. Happy to be agnostic.

Answer 9

I guess you could say that since the Bible says that in the last days the love of the greater number would cool off, that wicked men and impostors would advance from bad to worse, misleading and being mislead. That they would be without self control, fierce, having no natural affection, without love of goodness, betrayers, puffed up with pride, unthankful, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, sounds about right.

Answer 10

That would be best for everyone. America is the last holdout, along with the Middle East Muslims and the corrupt Catholic countries like Cuba, Philippines, and Mexico.

Answer 11

not so much as organized religions are not meeting people's needs anymore in view of current worldview and problems people face now. if there was an organized religion that worked in today's society, and didn't seem antiquated, more people would express their belief in a higher spiritual entity or such. i think people believe there is a God, but not as defined by the rules of current religions.