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Is There a Religious Revival Among Young US Adults?
- curtisblaine 10mo agoHopefully!
- scotty79 10mo ago"Recent polling shows no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults"
- daymanstep 10mo agoBetteridge's law strikes again!
- donkeybeer 10mo ago[flagged]
- donkeybeer 10mo agoIts hard to imagine a non-neurological basis for the ardent believers, it takes a lot to stick to belief in obvious falsehoods. There have been hundreds of religions throughout history, all of them thought they were the true one. None of them even stand scrutiny to basic arguments, let alone the very high amount of rigor such a supposedly fundamental truth must demand.
- dartharva 10mo agoThe point of a religion is to provide a devoted in-group with a coherent set of values and principles, subsequently fulfilling an individual's social needs of stability and belonging. God and other supernatural concepts are just social communication tools to enable the same, and are not meant to be treated as scientific theorems to prove or disprove. Your ad-hominem tirade is embarrassingly juvenile.
- donkeybeer 10mo agoI have met very few religious people who claim the god and supernatural stuff isn't capital T Truth. They'd be offended if I said religion is just a lifestyle or moral system, some even to the point of violent genocides.
- dartharva 10mo agoOf course they do, because that intangible symbol of God is the base of the whole social structure. Just like how cash is nothing but paper without the underlying intangible idea of a nation to give an exchange value to it. It doesn't matter that it's artificial, what matters is that it's held up with collective faith to give validity to a set of ideas and values.
- donkeybeer 10mo agoBut why do they claim god has powers over man if he needs mans hand to execute it? Cash or governments don't claim to be some all powerful fundamental truth of the universe. Nobody ever said that. Why do we infantilize and accept such utter absurdity from religious people? And what's funnier is most religions hate "LGBT" because its made up....how is it more made up than their beliefs? At least gender is a real thing that we can see, and one day in theory the body could be modified to truly change gender. Religion hasn't even, in principle given us any reason or explanation for their absurdities yet violently push back on anyone saying doubts.
- donkeybeer 10mo agoNormally we'd call that schizophrenia, hallucinations or any number of serious mental illnesses. The religious are on the other hand coddled. I'll be honest, at a fundamental level, I don't trust religious people at all, I work with people as needed to, but its like trusting a wild unpredictable beast, you never know what dangerous form their insanities would one day pop up as.
- donkeybeer 10mo agoThey are liars because they don't just say "Let god fix it" when they face crime, disease, what not. Well, some are insane enough that they do yes, I'd at least consider those people honest who go to faith healers for problems.
- AllegedAlec 10mo ago[flagged]
- donkeybeer 10mo agoIran and Afghanistan are nice religious countries. I'd gladly fund your deportation there if you think religion is true.
- AllegedAlec 10mo ago[flagged]
- donkeybeer 10mo ago[flagged]
- Dilettante_ 10mo ago…I thought I saw Amongus in the title. I'm going back to bed.
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- bigbuppo 10mo agoHeadline asks a question... the answer is No.
- graemep 10mo agoIt does suggest that the decline has stopped. Maybe also true in other western countries. It is what I expected. Given stable rates of loss religious belief and non-religious people converting (ignoring conversions between religions) there will be an equilibrium. It still matter what religion people follow. One of the big changes, especially in the US, has been the growth of evangelical Christianity (often Biblical literalist and right wing) at the expense of traditional big denominations.
- godsinhisheaven 10mo agoMaterialist magician incoming!
- countWSS 10mo agoAnecdotally,seems to be less of atheism online: the Dawkins/Rationalist types seem to have retreated from public debates.
- donkeybeer 10mo agoI'd argue because religious stupidity these days has increased to such a high order that in many adherents, its in the not even sane point to be even debated. Rationalists also haven't yet committed a few mass genocides and taken over countries, which is the bare minimum to be taken seriously among religions.
- HardwareLust 10mo agoWhy is this flagged?