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Had a great day today, world didn't burn up because I'm a atheist. Funny others need the belief to make it every day. Question is when we are all gone from this lifetime will the next generation past us consider the future better without religion?

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Cooper1020 2 Sep 9
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Sorry, when we are gone the faithfull will still outnumber us by more than a million to one, and in my experience ignorance and belief in god/gods on the rise not the decline. Honestly we will be lucky if things stay as they are, in actual fact we are most likely to see a regression in free thought where more and more previously progressive states (for you Americans I am using states here to mean nations as in nation states, not individual states in your union) will become theaocracy’s. it would be nice if people were becoming better educated and less prone believing things without evidence but that is just not the case, take the flat earth movement, something that basically did not exist 50 or 60 years ago, or if it did it was so fringe that nobody would publicly admit to believing it out of fear of being justifiably ridiculed for believing something so demonstrate blu false and foolish. That is not the case today, with celebrity’s and star athletes proclaiming that the world is flat and all the evidence to the contrary is fake
I have an example from personal experience but must give some background information. I live in Toronto Canada, a fairly to very progressive city, I live downtown within a 20 min walk of Yonge & Dundas Square, Toronto’s attempt at Times Square in NY. Earlier in the summer I went out on a Sunday to catch a movie. I went to a movie theatre located close to Yonge and Dundas square (note area not usually a hot bed of religious intolerance, being only 1 block from Toronto’s gay village, even the churches here are usually progressive, the one I passed on the way to the movie fly’s a massive pride flag) I was a little early for my showtime so went to the food court in the mall to grab a sandwich. It was while eating my sandwich, seated at a table overlooking Yonge street in the mostly empity food court that I was accosted. He was Yonge mid twenties to mid thirties, average height and build, trimmed beard, when I sat down he was about 10 tables away hunched over reading a book. Now he was standing over me, clutching the book, a black soft leather bible, and visibly shaking with anger. I forget exactly what he said, but part of it was a warning that one day himself and his friends would find me, and would teach me a lesson.
It was not until he had walked away that I figured out what had angered person so much, I was wearing a “bad religion” concert t-shirt.
happen year, in a big city known globally for being progressive, not in the small town I grew up in 10 years ago where I would expect it, nope. Ignorance and stupidity are on the rise, get ready to fake faith folks because that is the way society is moveing, backwards not forward

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They will not consider it better or worse, religion will be simply irrelevant.
If you go to places where atheists are in high numbers you will see that as the number of religious people (and the political power that people harness from them) diminishes, religion stops being a relevant issue in discussions.
Any minority religion is peaceful, docile and silent.

spot on. It will be delegated to folklore along with Greek and Roman gods.

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no clue, but i won't be here to see it, and i won't be anywhere else either lol

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