Is atheism becoming "cool" in america?

Question

I know a ton of atheists at my school and it seems like they're just atheists because everyone else is becoming them. It's like a way to make them feel superior to people who think there might actually be something after this life. Seriously, how does not believing anything at all better than at least having hope and why is this just becoming another trend?

Answer 1

Being an atheist is still very dangerous in some parts of America.
Understand that anybody in this country has every right to be free from religion if they so choose for any reason they choose.
Whether or not it's a "trend" which I doubt, or if it's genuine fear for your personal safety.
Did you see the Republican in the Alabama State Senate hit someone who disagreed with him? I remember one of Rev. Falwell's quote's about a "certainty that God would forgive me if I hit him."
Referring to an atheist, I believe.
Sorry, I don't see it. I see a country that is close to Iran whenit comes to being dominated by Fundamentalists.

Answer 2

Maybe the answer is that more atheists are coming out of the atheist closet? Its almost like atheists are the "new" gays. They're making the top of the best sellers list, appearing on tv shows to promote atheism, and its just more out there. I mean why not? Not all atheists are out to convert everyone they know to atheism, I sure am not. I live my life, and do the best I can. I really don't care what other people think. As long as people don't try to tell me what to do, I generally don't care.

Whether a person is christian or an atheist, it doesn't make them a better person, because at the end of the day its a label and a philosophical position, and really its a persons' character that really matters whether they are religious or an atheist. I'm an atheist, but I have hope. I don't need a deity to give me meaning.

Your post implies that atheists think they are better than others, this is not always true. Besides I could say the same about christians who think they're far above others just because they happen to believe in jesus christ.

Answer 3

Most atheists don't become one to be "cool". I may be an Atheist, but I am a spiritual person and I do have hopes in an afterlife. I think a lot of people have just become tired of secular religion and it's hypocrisy. I am undetermined as to whether or not God exists, but I am not going to be a church goer, ever. If God exists, my attendance won't guarantee a thing, my life and the way I live it will.

Answer 4

I'm not Christian.
I'm not Atheists.

But I do know enough over my 65 years, to recognize the next to the last sign involved in the prophesies by the Native North American Nations, regarding the purification period of the earth mother. Tremendous calamities will befall man during this period.

The next to the last sign is when man refuses to believe in the Creator. Four years after this sign, The earth mother, will purify herself. When this happens the North American Continent, will be mostly uninhabitable
This Prophesy has been handed down from medicine man to
apprentice for 30,000 years on the North American Continent.

I ask you is this happening now?

Answer 5

Is it?

Maybe they they have a respect for reason and evidence you don't have.

Believing reasonable things is better than believing just because you want to believe or because you've been told what to believe.

Basing belief on evidence, reason, and reality is better than believing unreasonable things, for which there's no evidence.

Maybe they get that.

You assume that they are believing as they do for poor reasons.

Yet you believe as you do only because you were told to believe, not for any good reason.

Living things die. Deal with it.

Why do you have to denigrate their beliefs, just because you aren't willing to base your beliefs on reality?

Being an atheist is NOT the same as having no hope.

Do I have hope that after I die I'll continue living?

No, because there's no reason to think that people exist after they die.

That doesn't mean I have no hope.

I have great hope -- and I have reason to hope -- that humans will be more reasonable and more HUMAN in the future than they are now; just as we are more reasonable and more human than we were in the past.

Trend?

Dunno.

But I can HOPE.

And I do hope that insanity will lose a bit more of its grip.

Answer 6

It seems to me that people find it easier not to be responsible for anything. It is so much easier not to do the right thing, or take the time out to do anything that takes away from their own personal needs. It is so sad that parents are raising children to not incorporate faith, in any way, into their lives. As a result we are seeing more and more self-absorbed generations, who are never taught that their actions impact the world, that the compassion for others is a weakness. The very thought of self-discipline or not acting on every impulse implies that people have no choices--that we are unable to think of what consequences can occur to ourselves, or others.

Answer 7

You don't mention what school you're at, but I imagine if you're talking about undergraduate college, just about everyone I know dumped their faith about that time. I can only talk about the people I knew personally, but it was totally about being adolescent and just rejecting what their parents had always forced them to do--like go to church!

SINCE that time, I know plenty of people who returned to their faith, while others chose not to.

I honestly think it's a rite of passage thing. You're a young person trying to forge your own identity and not just do what you're told. Parents don't usually ask their kids if they would like to join their religion or not, so it feels force-fed at that age. But it may blow over after a person feels secure in who they are and thinks about what they'd like to do objectively--not in reaction to how their families tried to shape them.

Answer 8

You observed that to huh? it incredibly is humorous how they affiliate the upward push of atheists with each and every of the crap it incredibly is happening interior the worldwide. as though each and every little thing right this is our fault. sure, our atheist president completely f*cked up the rustic over the final 8 years and the atheist votes supported him. If in basic terms those Christians knew how properly those often atheistic international locations have been doing. they does no longer even dare to hold that subject count number up.

Answer 9

Most young people tend to be atheist. Religion isn't as important as it was, it will eventually fade, but not completely.

Answer 10

No. In fact it's mostly uncool to be a nonbeliever. If it became the trendy thing well...I guess I'd have to become a Pagan lol.