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The Fastest Growing Religion in America Is
by Dogpatch 28 Replies latest jw friends
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Berengaria
I'm sorry Mr. Brown, but atheism is not a religion. I'd say it's not even a belief, but disbelief.
While you may speak English, you are not writing it.
Now kiss the Monkey!
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James Brown
Atheism is a set of beliefs.
You are not born an atheist.
You are not born a Christian.
You are indoctrinated with a thought process, or you accept a thought process.
People who dont think about where we came from or where we are going and have no clue are not atheist.
When one has a collection of thoughts of where we came from, where we are going, when one has a collection of thoughts
of why the other groups collection of thoughts is wrong, then the are ready for a label.
Christian, Atheist, Budhist, Muslem.
As I say I am pro atheist, I agree with most of the atheist arguments. When Atheist say they are not a religion, the Christians
and believers are shutting you down as being ignorant and not even listening to your valid arguments.
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shamus100
Really, James Brown?
No christians are shutting me down as being ignorant or even listening to a valid argument. The world as a whole is not against me. I am free to believe what I want to believe.
There is only one belief that I share with you - that there is no god, pure and simple. How you come to that conclusion is up to you. ;)
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mindseye
I remember reading somewhere that Buddhism was growing very fast as well. I can attest to this when I attended a Buddhist temple and saw the group grow overnight. But it's hard to measure as a lot of people who attend are 'seeker' types who rarely self-identify as Buddhists.
I would say that the growth of Islam can be largley attributed to immigration, at least from what I've seen.
Oh yeah, I agree that atheism is not a religion. It's not like atheists go to the atheist temple and light incense to the atheists saints or anything. There were times in history where atheists adopted rituals in movements, and some of the 'new atheists' are almost fundamentalist-like in their zeal. But I don't think this means they consist of a 'religion'. It's a philosophical system rooted in materialism - that all phenomena can be explained through observation of the physical world. Hardly the stuff of a 'religion'.
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Diest
Atheism is a religion like abstinence is a sex position. You could call it a philosophical out look...
I know because religion is a snare and a racket, so I avoid it like the plague.
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apostatethunder
Is being politically neutral being really apolitical? Would a majority of apolitical people not have a political effect in a society? Is being apolitical really not taking a political stance?
We all have our god, whether is Jehovah, Buda, Ala, money, power, reason….atheists have also their own gods, whatever they choose them to be.
The point I was trying to make is that Christianity is going down in big numbers, and former Christians are now choosing another set of values to live by, call it a religion or a philosophy of life.
Religion shape our values, and the absence of it does also. Even if atheism is not a religion in the literal sense of the word, for me atheism is like a religion because it takes the place religion used to have as people’s motivating factor.
The absence of religion is the philosophy that is growing the fastest in Western countries and as a consequence, societies are now shaped by the different gods different people choose to have, and the values these gods bring with them. That’s what I was trying to say.
