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One in 20 Americans Say They Are Atheists: Are Americans Abandoning Religion?

Heisenberg 2012/08/15 23:00:00
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Slate.com:A new poll suggests that 1 in 20 Americans now call themselves atheists, a fivefold increase from the last time the survey was taken in 2005. The Religion News Service reports that, to go along with the jump, just 60 percent of Americans now identify as religious, down from 73 percent the last time the Global Index of Religiosity and Atheism poll was taken seven years ago. The decline has also been felt in many other countries around the world, including double-digit drops in several European and North American countries.

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  • Heisenberg 2012/08/15 15:12:59
    Yes
    Heisenberg
    +30
    I don't worry about religion, I worry about the values that religion promotes.

    In the US, most atheists abandon Judao-Christians principles and embrace modern leftism which is based on secular-humanism and neo-Marxism.

    This is a terrible trend that will make America less tolerant, less prosperous and less free.

    scumbag atheist

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  • Barbara Logical... 2012/08/20 07:31:18
    Barbara
    You won't like what I'm about to say, but God punished the Jewish people because they turned there back on him and didn't follow his rules. The Jewish people are more God's people then any of us, they should have known better, but they chose to turn the other way.....so they got taught a lesson. He's still not happy with them, and you'll see what he has install for them within the next year...read the bible mate. Satanist why should God care they've made there choice to burn in the pits of fire for eternity....remember there choice....
  • RevBH Barbara 2012/09/01 23:31:54
    RevBH
    Why did Jesus allow the Spanish Inquisition? Or the Crusades? Just wondering. If you know, I'd love to hear why.

    Also, can you explain how "The Jewish people are more God's people then [sic] any of us," when they don't believe in Jesus and therefore are going to hell (according to you)? I've always wondered about that.....Looking forward to hearing the why and how. THX.
  • Barbara RevBH 2012/09/05 07:25:38
    Barbara
    God whose really name is Yahweh, requires everyone to follow his law the Ten commandments that's it, countries that don't will fear the rath of him. with war, famine, drought, pestilence , natural disasters. Unfortunately the world is getting worse, people are turning there back on him. there are more people interested in occults, witchcraft, clairvoyants, devil worshiping because they think its cool, hip... People don't realise that Yahweh gave Satan the rule of the land for 2000 years, he hoped that we would follow his law, but we haven't and everyone competes against each other, greedy, helping your fellow man has died. The Jewish people have always been his people, we all come the the tribes of Israel who went out and set themselves up around the world, Australia comes under the tribe of Joseph, I'm not sure about the US, but there is plenty of info on the net. were all going to hell until judgement day...this is when Yahweh will ask you questions, if you don't know the answers, he believes you didn't have the time to get to know him, so why should he get to know you....then you'll go into the pits of hell. Look the Bible has been changed many times, Constantine took alot out and changed it to suit his way of life, the Catholic church has changed it also to keep the people...
    God whose really name is Yahweh, requires everyone to follow his law the Ten commandments that's it, countries that don't will fear the rath of him. with war, famine, drought, pestilence , natural disasters. Unfortunately the world is getting worse, people are turning there back on him. there are more people interested in occults, witchcraft, clairvoyants, devil worshiping because they think its cool, hip... People don't realise that Yahweh gave Satan the rule of the land for 2000 years, he hoped that we would follow his law, but we haven't and everyone competes against each other, greedy, helping your fellow man has died. The Jewish people have always been his people, we all come the the tribes of Israel who went out and set themselves up around the world, Australia comes under the tribe of Joseph, I'm not sure about the US, but there is plenty of info on the net. were all going to hell until judgement day...this is when Yahweh will ask you questions, if you don't know the answers, he believes you didn't have the time to get to know him, so why should he get to know you....then you'll go into the pits of hell. Look the Bible has been changed many times, Constantine took alot out and changed it to suit his way of life, the Catholic church has changed it also to keep the people paying for there wealth and status, they have a library that is 13 miles long, only privledge people are allowed to view and that's not many people. They have masses of wealth store under the vatican, which was ruthlessly accumalated back in the old times. My husband worked with an italian guy (Tony) who grew up in italy before moving to Australia. He told my husband that his uncle for years had a job cleaning the vatican,Toni said when he was 13 yrs old his uncle asked if he would like to come along, which he was estatic. He told my husband that the vatican is like a maze, so many hidden corridors, there is a whole underground section which a majority of the public don't know about. Toni said his uncle said to him do you want to see something that you will never ever be able to see again...Toni said yes, he said he had to go down this narrow spiral stairs then there was a door at the end of it, his uncle opened it and he said the room was huge about the size of a football field and he said there was so much gold, chalaces, septers, crosses, buillon, statues, jewels he told my husband the room was full of stuff worth billions. He reckons his uncle laughed and said what do you think. He said he was speechless. He asked his uncle why do they keep it there, his uncle didn't know, but Toni said to my husband that alot of people suffer why aren't they helping them instead of hiding it away under the vatican. I personally have no time for the Catholic Chruch, this will be the false church which is mentioned in the bible and when he comes the world is going to be shocked that they were lied too. There are so many hidden symbols in the vatican, if you know what to look for, there actually against Yahweh and work for Satan.....eg: have a look when the pope talks he has the cross behind him which is upside down.....this is the vatican scoffing at John the Baptist who was tortured to death and hung upside down...
    The more I look into this, the worse it gets it stems back centuries, the human race has been praying to Baal (the Devil) and we all didn't even know it......I'm researching now if the word God was changed and so far its not looking good, the word God is the devil, if you speak to the real God, call him Yahweh or father. All Yahweh wanted from us is to follow the ten commandments...but the devil led us astray..... I have so much more to tell you, you might think I'm crazy, but I suppose will all find out in the long run.
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  • RevBH Politic... 2012/09/01 23:26:24
    RevBH
    +1
    True, true, true.
  • RushSchlafly 2012/08/17 02:24:38
    No
    RushSchlafly
    +1
    Religion is polarizing just like politics. I am sure the two are related. The wishy-washy "mainline" churches like Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Lutherans, etc., are dying. The Evangelical (fundamentalist) churches are growing. It would be an interesting study to see what role the homosexual agenda has played in this, getting many people to believe that homosexual behavior is normal and acceptable. Those churches which have held firmly to the Bible and refused to accept the advance of homosexual ideology have grown while those that have acquiesced or vacillated have shrunk. So it seems to me that the number of true Christians is increasing and the only loss is some pseudo-Christians or semi-Christians. Thus, the Christian faith is being strengthened by purging the diseased elements. I would really like it if all those "liberal Christians" stopped calling themselves Christian. Only those who accept Jesus as their personal savior, who believe the Bible is inerrant, the literal Word of God, and who support the struggle against the homosexual agenda are worthy of being called Christian.
  • Barbara RushSch... 2012/08/17 06:48:55
    Barbara
    +3
    I don't accept homo's marriage in churches either...I've got no problem with Homo's but its going too far that they want to be married under the law of God.....WTF! go to a satan worship church and get married there and stay away from God's churches.....I still think homo's have an illness, just like paedos and its crap your born gay....you've actually been cursed by God....which maybe a family curse that's been there for generations....
  • KR811 Barbara 2012/08/17 07:38:44 (edited)
    KR811
    +5
    You don't have a problem with gays, yet you compared them to pedos and sick people. Why don't you go all the way say they're like rapists and murders as well.

    BTW I don't know why any gay person would want to be married in church where Christians have such a disdain for them.
  • matthew... KR811 2012/08/17 08:07:15
    matthew.kennedy.31586
    +3
    Yeah - when all those old, bigoted, hating Tea Party-ers finally die out... The sky will shine a little brighter... The birds will sing a little louder - and the Earth will breathe a long sigh of relief!
  • Sadisticon matthew... 2012/08/17 10:02:06
    Sadisticon
    +1
    That was funny.
  • Barbara Sadisticon 2012/08/20 07:37:22
    Barbara
    Yes smaill minds amuse easily
  • Barbara matthew... 2012/08/20 07:36:59
    Barbara
    Its not far off, just hope you'll be here to enjoy it.....judgement day!!!
  • Barbara KR811 2012/08/20 07:36:04
    Barbara
    Well they do want to get married in a church.... whats the difference between a rapist, murderer, paedo, gay....nothing there all abominations.. Its only been in the last 5 years that the Gays are yelling louder...previous to that it wasn't talked about....
  • KR811 Barbara 2012/09/04 20:49:04
    KR811
    If you can't tell the difference between a rapist, murderer, pedo, or a gay. You don't belong in society.
  • RevBH KR811 2012/09/01 23:36:24
    RevBH
    I wouldn't have a het marriage in a church which wouldn't marry same-sex couples. That so un-Christian. Jesus accepted everyone, and accepted them gladly.
  • Sadisticon RushSch... 2012/08/17 10:01:34
    Sadisticon
    wow. just wow.
  • Logical... RushSch... 2012/08/17 14:14:27
    LogicalAtheist
    +1
    You're rediculous. I'm an atheist, but when my parents made me go to church, a Methodist church, they said that gays have a right to get married and love each other. I'm not saying that religion is the cause of the wars and such bu- wait, yes it is. Such as the Nazis invading Poland, killing eleven million Jews for example. The Westboro Baptist Church picketing dead soldiers' funerals and thanking God for dead soldiers, and- this infuriates me the most- the fact that religion has held our technology one hundred years back.
  • Tasine Logical... 2012/08/17 16:55:38
    Tasine
    I don't even consider the Westboro Baptist Church a Christian organization. I see it as a full-blown cult of marginally or completely insane people.
  • rich 2012/08/17 01:41:19 (edited)
    Yes
    rich
    +1
    Religion is the cultural interpretation of God, but has little to do with God. it has also been so thoroughly abused as a system to control people for so many centuries, no wonder that people turn away from organized religion. It is more about a system to control people, and thus as such, disconnects itself from the true God. All my opinion of course.
  • Sadisticon rich 2012/08/17 10:02:34
    Sadisticon
    +1
    That was swell.
  • rich Sadisticon 2012/08/17 10:35:50
    rich
    Why thank you. Took a lot of years and a lot of soul searching and observation to get to this, and then peace.
  • Barbara rich 2012/08/20 07:41:09
    Barbara
    Yep! people have turned away and look at the mess the world is in now....war, greed, abominations, murders, gay marriages,arrogant, self centred, fake religions and churches I could go on......this was never God's intention, man did this all to himself and that's my opinion of course!!
  • rich Barbara 2012/08/20 11:05:03
    rich
    Just curious, what would be a fake religion, in your opinion?
  • Barbara rich 2012/08/20 12:54:19
    Barbara
    That's easy! go to Luke 4:4 Jesus said man should not live on bread alone but by
    every word of God".........show me a church that's doing this and it will be easily seen that most of these churches/ministeries write there own gospels.........there are many fake religions in all circles, the only way to learn is to pick up the christian bible yourself and start reading.....
  • rich Barbara 2012/08/20 14:10:16 (edited)
    rich
    Got it. Every religion except Christianity is fake, right? And some of them are because they are not following the bible? Is that right?
  • lcky9 2012/08/17 01:08:57
    No
    lcky9
    +2
    better check who they polled..
  • J-DUB 2012/08/17 00:47:36
    Yes
    J-DUB
    +5
    We we getting smarter everyday and realize religion is nonsense meant to control feeble minded people.
  • ☆astac☆ J-DUB 2012/08/17 02:33:30
    ☆astac☆
    +2
    Sorry, but it is secular humanism, the religion of the left that seeks to control the masses
  • KR811 ☆astac☆ 2012/08/17 08:11:26
    KR811
    +1
    As if religion doesn't?
  • Barbara J-DUB 2012/08/20 07:43:33
    Barbara
    Ok remember you said that, Judgement day is coming that's if you believe, no the world is not becoming smarter, more like dumber and blind sited from the truth......funny how you think the world was full of feeble minded people before!!!!
  • J-DUB Barbara 2012/08/22 01:26:43
    J-DUB
    Yes. The world was full of and still have some who belong to the "earth is flat, cutting open a body for medicine is against god, god brought aids to punish gays, and god let's us destroy the earth because he will fix it eventually" crowd. Yes they are dumb stupid people and are slowly becoming the minority.
  • hbariteauiii 2012/08/17 00:33:08
    Yes
    hbariteauiii
    +4
    A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
    Carl Sagan
  • tatilee(: 2012/08/17 00:16:42
    Yes
    tatilee(:
    +4
    Which is unfortunate. Because in this crazy world we live in, I need God more than ever.
  • Barbara tatilee(: 2012/08/17 06:50:31
    Barbara
    +1
    ME TOO :) three cheers for GOD....people forget were only tenants here on earth and he will destroy us if we don't follow his rules :)
  • Kae Kam Barbara 2012/08/17 13:42:10
    Kae Kam
    And where exactly is your proof of that?
  • Barbara Kae Kam 2012/08/20 07:46:08
    Barbara
    Read the bible its there, were only tenants.......shame your one fo these people that don't believe in faith unless you can see it right in front of you......keep waiting for this occurence it will be too late....
  • Kae Kam Barbara 2012/08/20 14:25:27
    Kae Kam
    +1
    The Bible was written by man. It's proof of nothing.
  • RevBH Barbara 2012/09/01 23:43:47
    RevBH
    What about the "Man has dominion over the earth and all its inhabitants" stuff? Hasn't that been the justification for frittering away the earth's resources? God gave us the earth so we could destroy it without regard to future generations?
  • tatilee(: Barbara 2012/08/17 16:47:23
    tatilee(:
    +1
    But he loves us so much that even if we walk away from him, he is always there waiting for us(:
  • matthew... tatilee(: 2012/08/17 08:08:08
    matthew.kennedy.31586
    +1
    I don't... In fact - the idea of GOD just gets in the way of reality.
  • tatilee(: matthew... 2012/08/17 16:44:08
    tatilee(:
    Oh, Well my faith got me so much this year. I would be a mess if I was on my own. I'm very fortunate and blessed.

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