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In reply to the discussion: Why Americans Are Losing Their Religion at a Startling Rate [View all]Android3.14
(5,402 posts)24. Prepare for the backlash
Whenever elements within a culture begin abandoning or attacking religions, the practitioners that remain behind are more ferevent, more dogmatic and more militant. The rise in those abandoning religion is probably too minor from keeping the smaller, but highly motivated, practitioners from forcing their beliefs on to others.
Look what happened to the middle east, one of the original sources of creative and critical thought, centuries ago.
My hope is that the Internet will keep secular folks connected, able to defend themselves and supportive enough as a community to survive the coming push of Luddite anti-intellectualism.
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That is our family also. The rw has declared war on the people and all of religion is blamed. Of
jwirr
Apr 2014
#13
It's not just the rightwing bigots. People are figuring out it's all based on preposterous myths.
Arugula Latte
Apr 2014
#63
Internet lets us share that the evangelicals do not practice what they preach as an antichrist.
DhhD
Apr 2014
#57
Religion relies almost exclusively on the indoctrination of children to survive...
MellowDem
Apr 2014
#17
Definitely, and most have indoctrination centers under the pretext of being schools. n/t
RKP5637
Apr 2014
#44
I like to think of it as The Emperor's New Clothes Syndrome on a mass scale.
Arugula Latte
Apr 2014
#65
i am always suspicious of this phrasing. why is this happening, lets look at it
mopinko
Apr 2014
#22
During the Viet Nam era almost every Religious organization signed on against the war
randr
Apr 2014
#26
Right, they should be making decisions based on a collection of stories from
Arugula Latte
Apr 2014
#64
Factual Information. Isolation within the group and been the key to holding........
Bonhomme Richard
Apr 2014
#41
They can't sit still without technology that long. Plus, Americans don't want to be called sinful.
WinkyDink
Apr 2014
#48
I'd have to see detailed survey data, but it'd be easy to draw an incorrect conclusion here
OmahaBlueDog
Apr 2014
#59
It is hard to indoctrinate people who are swallowing a firehose of information every day. nt
bemildred
Apr 2014
#67
Maybe it's because people are finally realizing that religion is a bunch of crap.
Vashta Nerada
Apr 2014
#71
Yeah, same here. He never said anything to me, no skywriting, no messages at all.
Manifestor_of_Light
Apr 2014
#91
There is a common sense answer for that. Because the rapture is coming soon and the anti-Christ
Douglas Carpenter
Apr 2014
#92