No, that wasn't my intent, and it wasn't my intent either to kick the shins of religious people with my statement.
The question was "is the internet responsible for a large number of Americans losing their faith?". I provided one factor that I believe to be in part responsible for that trend.
Assuming you're a person of faith, I daresay you didn't come to that faith because of reasons of logic or scientific argument. I don't think too many religious people have. The opposite is much more likely to be true -- many a religious person has lost their faith because of reasons of logic and scientific fact which they might not have been exposed to except online.
Many religious people, though, try to provide logical or scientific reasons for their faith. Reasons that I don't believe would convince anyone not already of the faith, and reasons I suspect therefore to be nothing but post-hoc rationalisations of their already existing faith. The same is not true of atheists. If a good scientific or logical argument could be presented to them for theism, they would no longer be atheists. I don't think many atheists are atheists simply because they prefer there to be no life after death where they'd be reunited with dead loved ones, but rather because the evidence leads them that position.
As such, I think online discussions in a medium which favours cold hard facts over appeals to emotion, the deck is stacked against the theist, and that's why we're seeing an increasing number of Americans lose their faith.
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