Do you think Atheism is gaining ground in america?

Question

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/14/AR2007091402199.html

the washington post had this article...

i agree, lev, that Nontheist is just 2 more letters to type...means the same thing..why bother

Problem: No point intended, just asking for different views...

sorry Matt, Although i don't know how much support i have up here in northeast ohio either...

Christy<3: consider yourself welcomed :-D

Answer 1

Great article. Thanks for posting it!

Answer 2

Atheism gaining ground seems a lot better than the idea of committing yourself to a belief system which encourages suppressing your wants and desires in life in favor of archaic rules and regulations created by people who have long since passed on.

I mean talk about a buzzkill when you want to get busy with someone only to find out that buttseks is against the interpreted modern reinterpretation of God's word.

Answer 3

Satanists pass incognito as Atheists with the intention to fool people into turning far off from God. For if God is with us, then who can be triumphant against us? hence devil's plan is to trick us into leaving God's ingredient so as that we are going to be susceptible. one among the of devil's deceptions is that faith is hypocrisy. faith is a individual's information of the international/universe and how it works. technology is a faith. yet through fact Satanists additionally pass incognito as Christians to income seats of potential via which they are able to misinform greater people, to deprave the church from the interior, and to grant Christianity a foul call, many people have fallen for devil's lies and function started to call themselves Atheists in protest of the corruption they see interior the church, the pedophiles (Satanists incognito as clergymen) and each vile ingredient that Satanists have completed on an analogous time as claiming to be Christian. so which you notice a surge of people calling themselves Atheist, yet many are certainly Satanists and a lot of comprise purely calling themselves Atheist in protest of what they detect as corruption and hypocrisy. they do no longer seem to be genuine Atheists. a real Atheist denies the life of any god or gods. The Satanist incognito spends maximum of his time attacking Christianity. The protester spends very a lot of time putting down faith (information!) through fact they experience jaded and harm. it relatively is ironic that somewhat than certainly being dissatisfied they have certainly fallen for the Satanist's scam. Atheism gaining floor in united states of america? No; it relatively is an phantasm. Satanism and its sufferers are transforming into.

Answer 4

Yes and in the world, because the Bible says that it will happen. From the Christian faith there will be a great falling away because baby Christians will listen to the talk of the world instead of listening to God.

It will come a time and it is today, when men will not listen to sound doctrine, but they will look for preachers to preach what they want to hear. The Lord calls them "lukewarm" and Jesus says He will vomit them out of His mouth.

The Bible said that knowledge would increase in the latter days and it certainly has. My grandpa rode a horse and buggy to town and knew nothing about an automobile. We have had a knowledge explosion in the last 100 years.

Time is short - Prepare to meet the Creator. If you don't know Jesus as your Savior, invite Him into your heart and ask the Lord to save you and cleanse you from all sins. He will do it, because the Lord loves us and He is returning for His own.

Answer 5

I don't know about gaining ground so much as it's more acceptable to the public at large. My suspicion is that we'll (eventually) go the way of the UK, where religion is a low priority.

In a sense, it's like the public perception of homosexuality; the real change is the ability of people to live out lives without public derision (well, mostly).

Answer 6

The numbers seem to back that assertion. I'm in Utah though, so not a whole lot of people sharing that view with me here!

Answer 7

Well it's a fact, though many of these people are merely making their voices heard, that's not quite the same as spreading, though I think thats happening too.

I'd object to the stupid and redundant word 'nontheist' though. We don't need it.

Answer 8

Yes, At least among those with a college education.

Answer 9

I don't know and I don't really care.

My atheism is as personal as my disbelief in unicorns. It doesn't matter what the population that views the world as i do is.

Answer 10

one can hope.

It makes sense, if one correlates the overall rejection of clerical authority over the past few decades with the corresponding increase in education levels and the huge drop in crime rates.

Answer 11

Not really. But then, I live in the South. It's harder to see things like that here.