Mark1955 wrote: ↑June 17th, 2018, 4:39 am
I'd suggest that if you could 'prove' beyond any doubt in the minds of currently religious people that religion was all false then you'd have on your hands a lot of very traumatised people. Many would fall prey to depression, but a few would undoubtedly resort to extreme violence against you. 'Nobody' as Douglas Adams wrote 'likes a smart ****'.
Fortunately for them, and you, one of the functions of religion is to allow people to avoid having to face up to change by saying that 'god says this thing doesn't change'; thus you will be unsuccessful in convincing the majority of religious people of your view.
You are right. Nobody has changed belief systems due to logical reasons.
But... but... I am not alone. The world has finally come to the sober realization that religion and god-worship is an atavistic dinosaur. It has three strongholds in the world presently: the Muslim world, India, and the United States of America. Even South American Catholics are becoming secularized. The Muslim world is expanding, due to its internal population explosion.
On the other hand, almost the entire Europe, Australia and large chunks of Asia (namely ex and current communist countries) are becoming entirely non-religious.
Those who think the trend is childish, or reversible, they have their heads in the sand.
This is not due to some zealot's work who wants to erase religionism and has succeeded in that work like Hitler convinced the German nation about anti-Semitism. It is due to many other factors. One is that all the god-gaps have disappeared, there is safety in the world. The knowledge gap disappeared. The healing gap disappeared. Whatever.
The other reason religions can't retain followers is the emotional value of the religion's discriminatory behaviour. Gay people are coming of the closed by the droves, and they bring much support with them against Leviticus, and in turn, against religionism.
Bad racial relations are smeared on the Republicans and on right wing sympathisers. I am not sure if the accusation stands on an individual basis on Reps and on rednecks; but they got the bad rap, because in people's minds (both left- and right wing) "racist" is more closely associated with right wing skinhead fat guys.
And the third thing that repels people from religion is not ethical, like these above two, but economical and the convenience of it. It is easier to not have every sperm sacred. It is easier to go for abortions than not. It boils down to such trivial and childish, but in essence basic and fundamental experiences as it is easier to sleep in on Sunday mornings than to go to church.
Lastly, the more education a person gets, the more likely he or she will be to turn from the church. This is a general rule with many exceptions, but the trend is solid. As the population gets more and more educated, the more people become enlightened, and less and less they see the point in believing in dogma and passing the belief down to their children.
Americans cherish freedom, liberty, independence. The biggest independence a human can dream to achieve is to throw away the yoke of having a merciful/merciless, all-powerful, controlling, and punitive overlord sitting on his or her neck, which is none other than a benevolent but cruel dictator, the very god s/he is reluctant to throw away.
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