Speaking to the converted so to speak (Glossolalia ;).
This shift away from the dominance of any one religion is good for a secular society whose government is structured to discourage catch basins of power from building up and spilling over into people's private lives.
If I'm zealous about anything it's anti-selling; my ears turn red and grow horns if I hear a commercial (though I can be fond of the rep ;)
Even among atheists and agnostics, belief in things usually associated with religious faith can worm its way through fissures in the materialist dam.
The record is exacting - no one has been conscious enough to check back; doesn't mean you can't appreciate people where their at.
..called themselves atheist or agnostic, 32 percent answered in the affirmative to the question “Do you think there is life, or some sort of conscious existence, after death?” Huh? Even more incongruent, 6 percent of these atheists and agnostics also said that they believed in the bodily resurrection of the dead. You know, like Jesus.
.. as long as there are DD Support and Research Boards out there, not a concern.
..that gravitational well (flakes) will grow ever deeper as science progresses in these areas—and especially if the number of atheists increases.
natural response of cornered rats.
..we should be thinking about the deeper implications for how people will find meaning as the traditional source of it wanes in influence.
Religion, just as in any commodity will be owned and controlled. Until it isn't; then move on to the next. Nativism on deck?.
This guy seemed to have a sound cosmology.. "no regrets, stating that he started out broke and figured it was OK to go out that way as well."
