The Atheist population is growing. In the future, will our time be considered the "deluted era"?

Question

Imagine teenagers in history class laughing at the old beliefs

Imaginge them saying, "those were the days when most people were deluted"

Imagine us Atheists being honored for being ahead of our time

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Answer 1

DELUTED? Do you mean that we have watered our beliefs down too much?

I think you mean DELUDED, meaning we have convinced ourselves that a fantasy is true.

There will always be religions, but for a time now, there will also be a bigger atheist presence. It will not last forever, nor will this be the last time the pendulum swings.

Answer 2

Please, please do we speculate that our descendants will dream up some thing a tad wittier, purely a sprint extra erudite than the deluded era. nonetheless, i'm getting the place you're coming from. Does the attractiveness of books like the God delusion and "The Da Vinci Code" sign the growing to be capability of atheism or basically the fascination of such diverse with all issues religious? i'm particular which you bear in suggestions whilst Hollywood mocked Mel Gibson's "the enthusiasm of the Christ" as destined to be an epic flop and financial disaster. Then whilst it later made funds, we had to ask, is that this a demonstration of Christianity's capability? Or does this basically mirror the fascination human beings of all faiths have on the subject of Christ? i do no longer likely understand. the only factor i will incredibly say for particular with regard to the destiny is that a minimum of a few little ones will mock Christianity. And a minimum of a few Christians will proceed to stay and share their faith. God bless you for this concept upsetting question! Laura

Answer 3

Atheists are slaughtered throughout the world. The one thing all the 5 major religions in the world have, other than believing there is a hereafter, is that all atheists are worthless and in many cultures will be put to death. How you think, act, and live is your business. I don't think you'll be honored for anything involving your atheistic beliefs. If anyone will be laughing, it will be believers laughing at you for your "old" beliefs. Anytime empires have fallen away from a "god/God" or "religion" it has crumbled--like the Roman Empire, The Soviet Union, the early Christian churches turned away from God and generations were wiped out. Keep on believing and you'll stew in your own ignorance.

Answer 4

John 14: 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If what Jesus said is true, and if he actually said it, then the doctrine of Jesus Christ is true. If it is true then it's saying that Jesus is the only hope that each individual has. I mean, think about it. You come into the world alone and you leave it alone. We are all human beings, related by blood in the distant past but we’re all truly individual, we can’t help anyone into or out of this world. We do that on our own. We make the decision to believe in God or to believe that he doesn’t exist, or to stay somewhere in the middle on our own. No one can make that decision for us although many try to coerce others into making the decision that they believe they should make, for many reasons. The Holy Spirit doesn’t coerce anyone. The Holy Spirit is he who talks to your conscience and lays the truth on your heart and causes you to want relief that you can only get by getting on your knees and confessing your sin before God and asking him for his mercy and forgiveness. The strong delusion that will come, has come, upon the world today is not that Christianity is a lie, or that Christianity is the truth but the lost of the world will believe it’s a lie. It is that there will be those within Christianity that will believe and teach a lie. Matthew 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. This is not speaking of antichrists outside the church. He is speaking of some of those that the world sees as Christian. Many does not mean all. Truth is still truth whether the whole world lies against it or not. Jesus said he is the truth.

Answer 5

I think the growth in interest in atheism is part of a backlash against Christian Evangelical Fundamentalists. These Xians have pissed off so many people about dumbass non-issues like: stem cells, cloning, evolution, school prayer, "war on christmas", "under God" in the pledge of alliegance, anti-gay marriage, etc. People are just sick of these particular Xians' shizzit.

A lot of things proposed by these Xians have seemed like such crazy-assed ideas, it really makes the rest of us wonder what the hell is wrong with them. You don't even have to go back very far for a good example - Pat Robertson just *yesterday* made some jackass prediction that there'd be mass killings in the US in late 2007. The rest of us want to know - what is he on? 'Cause whatever it is, he's been using waay too much.

It's not a backlash against Jesus, it's a backlash against a political movement wolf in Christian sheeps' clothing. The evangelical, fundamentalist Christian movement has made a mockery of normal, mainstream Protestantism.

Answer 6

I think you mean deluded. your spelling mistake ruins your whole theory. But, yes, I think that in the future people will look back on this era and say, what were they thinking? Itwon't be about all religion, however, but about allowing the violent ones to exist as long as they have.

Answer 7

you asked this the other day, and your spelling was corrected then, too.
there is no such word as deluted. there's diluted, which means watered down, or deluded, which mean delusional.

Answer 8

religion wont be going anywhere in a hurry, Its closely linked to ignorance, and we are all born ignorant. Also there is alot of money and power to be made. Religion wont go through reason etc. Some religions will die, but there will just be knew 'scientific religions' in their place. Blind leading the blind as usual.

Answer 9

Well, Atheists already do that right?

If you ask me, that idea is quite hard to grasp, because if such things were possible, I don't think Hitler would have got into power, do you? Brainwashing...re-education camps...very powerful and psychologically harmful things...

Answer 10

I hope I live to see it. I do think that it is growing. Sometimes I wonder if something like a real legitimate visitation from another planet would affect religious views.