When 1 in 5 Americans Don't Belong to a Religion, is God Dead in 2013?

[Moonwalk]

4. Oh, yawn, are we at this again? I thought we got over the shock! shock! shock! of "god is dead"...

...reports back in 1966.



I mean, honestly, aren't you religious folk over this stupid scare tactic yet? Here's the atheist talking, and soothing you. god was never "dead" in the 60's. Organized, mainstream religions were just being rejected for alternative religions. There were plenty of people praying to Krishna, or singing and dancing to "Long Live god" from godspell. By the 70's there was a whole new, born-again Christian scene and enough believers that cults were recruiting and Jim Jones was able to get everyone in his group to drink the Kool-Aid.

So, take heart. god is not dead, he's not even sick or on vacation. But the way organized religions have been acting, preaching, politicking, demanding, restricting, interfering and focusing on things like being gay rather than being kind and spiritual has driven the faithful away. They still believe, they just don't want to believe that way.

As for us non-believers, we're about the same as we're always been, as the charts show. Not much growth in atheists is there? We're just more vocal and more visible because these same bullying organized religions pushed their way into schools and tried to take over science classes, pushed into court houses and tried to replace secular law with theology, and have been trying to take away the civil rights of others (see Catholic/Momon Church on gays, anti-contraceptives, etc.) because such rights are against their religion. And that made us mad enough to fight back rather than just stay politely out of the way, as we tended to do. We don't like it when organized religions of any kind bully us or others into following their religious dictates.

THAT is why you're seeing all this. Not because god (belief in god) is dead. So relax, and put away that old Time Magazine. It wasn't right in 1966, it's not right now, and it probably will never be right. Human beings like magical thinking and imaginary friends far too much to ever give up god.