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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/....2007.10819958
Young claims he was not anti religious
But rejects the god of the time
Sometimes he seems angry at the prevailing religion of the day to me
I was too when I was young
Then I realized the historical value of religion and its beginnings
On this message board "atheist" is usually conflated with rejection of the Abrahamic god, the Judeo-Christian God.
But I agree with you that when you start considering the religions of East Asia, South Asia, animist traditions of indigenous people of Africa and the Americas, it gets challenging to define what is really meant by atheism.
evince (04-26-2021)
Are there major atheistic societies in the past? Perhaps the same percentage as atheists in the present population?:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...bout-atheists/
- The share of Americans who identify as atheists has increased modestly but significantly in the past decade. Pew Research Center telephone surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019 show that 4% of American adults say they are atheists when asked about their religious identity, up from 2% in 2009. An additional 5% of Americans call themselves agnostics, up from 3% a decade ago.
- The literal definition of “atheist” is “a person who does not believe in the existence of a god or any gods,” according to Merriam-Webster. And the vast majority of U.S. atheists fit this description: 81% say they do not believe in God or a higher power or in a spiritual force of any kind. (Overall, 10% of American adults share this view.) At the same time, roughly one-in-five self-described atheists (18%) say they do believe in some kind of higher power. None of the atheists we surveyed, however, say they believe in “God as described in the Bible.”
BTW, despite the erroneous claims of certain atheists, "religiously unaffiliated" doesn't equal atheist. Atheists are "disbelievers" which means they have faith something doesn't exist without evidence their disbelief is true. The only purely logical, and honest, group in the entire spectrum are Agnostics.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Doc Dutch (04-26-2021)
Cypress (04-26-2021)
Ahh, of course. I should have known you'd already identified all of those at fault and are now seeking to persecute them. How silly of me to forget.
Lemme guess, they were all White Slaver Christians too, eh? Probably with beards and spoke with Southern accents?
OTOH, if you believe that Christians have not proved to be much better, if any, than the fucking barbarians who preceded them, then I agree that there are too many who aren't any better.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
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