Belief in God in U.S. Dips to 81%, a New Low

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yet somehow the other 19% is trying to call the shots and destroy this country

Seriously.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yet somehow the other 19% is trying to call the shots and destroy this country

Seriously.

You need some new material. And nobody claims people of faith are persecuted in the US, just that you guys get to take over every thread on DCUM. DCUM < US, try to keep up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the sum of all politicians, (mostly) whites, and less educated equals to 81% of population. That seems pretty high.

You think black and latino people are less likely to believe in God? lmao

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yet somehow the other 19% is trying to call the shots and destroy this country

Seriously.

Do you really want to go this route?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The hate regarding all religion on this thread makes me sad.

I think it’s 1-2 trolls posting multiple times and bumping each others’ posts in the usual atheist echo chamber. The thread says 81% of the pop disagrees with them, so I wouldn’t take much away from this thread.

[Anonymous]

I think religious people still aren't used to being criticized the way non-religious people have been for so long.

They tend to get very offended when people openly acknowledge their lack of god belief.

That is changing, however, as it happens more frequently because fewer people are hiding their irreligion. Sort of like what happened with gay people a few years back and what's happening with trans-gendered people now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The hate regarding all religion on this thread makes me sad.

I think it’s 1-2 trolls posting multiple times and bumping each others’ posts in the usual atheist echo chamber. The thread says 81% of the pop disagrees with them, so I wouldn’t take much away from this thread.

Something no Christian would ever do. /S

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised. As a highly educated UMC person in the DC metro I would have assumed it was much much lower.

I became religious after being raised atheist in a west coast college town where not many of my peers were religious. While the people I grew up with mostly didn’t come to religion like me, they still believe in tarot cards, astrology, manifesting, etc. I think people overstate what this trend means. Humans will keep inventing religion alternatives.

Agree.

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Anonymous wrote:While I don’t care whether or not anyone believes in God, I think a belief in the sacred and the divine leads to more openness, humility, and gentle curiosity in the world than not. A wholehearted belief in science is not better, it’s just more valued in a society that lionizes masculine qualities and characteristics and maligns feminine qualities and characteristics.

Have you looked around at the religious people (Christians) in America? They are not known for their openness, humility or curiosity.

I don’t consider hateful “Christians” to be admirable in any way, nor do I think we should be emulating these people or their belief systems. My comment speaks to the fact that we consider a very narrow belief in god to be the only available way to believe, at the exclusion of innumerable other ways to explore faith - we all lose when this is the case.

Correct -- we can believe in fairies and goblins and all sort of imaginary beings.

Genuinely curious, why do you try to make every thread about yourself?

NP -- I don't see how this comment elicits this response. This is not the view of one person. It is a commonly held view among non-believers that the supernatural is imaginary.

OK - so "faith" has been helpful to you. Many don't see it that way. That doesn't make them selfish or stupid or less evolved. It makes them different from you.

Snark about fairies and goblins is making it about themselves, just saying.

mention of fairies and goblins and other beings like God and angels is not snark and is not self centered. It's a fact that God and any beings beyond nature are in the same category. Some are good, some are bad -- according to the personalities that human have given them -- but they are all beyond nature.

The US is full of fairies and goblins. Are you suggesting they're not natural?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think religious people still aren't used to being criticized the way non-religious people have been for so long.

They tend to get very offended when people openly acknowledge their lack of god belief.

That is changing, however, as it happens more frequently because fewer people are hiding their irreligion. Sort of like what happened with gay people a few years back and what's happening with trans-gendered people now.

No, it’s some atheists’ antagonistic “fight me” attitude, as exemplified by this thread with immature snark and dumber gifs, that annoys people of faith. Most of us are very happy to talk about religion with our thoughtful atheist friends.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised. As a highly educated UMC person in the DC metro I would have assumed it was much much lower.

I became religious after being raised atheist in a west coast college town where not many of my peers were religious. While the people I grew up with mostly didn’t come to religion like me, they still believe in tarot cards, astrology, manifesting, etc. I think people overstate what this trend means. Humans will keep inventing religion alternatives.

Agree.

That’s called “Presuppositionalism” and it’s a form of apologetics.

[Anonymous]

Mankind invented God in the very earliest days, and it is certainly a human impulse that will always be with us. No question there. But the definition of "god" varies so widely, it's almost (to me) a vague term. If someone asked me do I believe in God, I'd ask them to define "god." It's almost a meaningless question. Doesn't tell you anything about the strength or degree of belief in America today.

[Anonymous]

Ask people do you believe in American consumer secularism and the percentage would be much higher. It's a religion but without God.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m surprised. As a highly educated UMC person in the DC metro I would have assumed it was much much lower.

I became religious after being raised atheist in a west coast college town where not many of my peers were religious. While the people I grew up with mostly didn’t come to religion like me, they still believe in tarot cards, astrology, manifesting, etc. I think people overstate what this trend means. Humans will keep inventing religion alternatives.

Agree.

That’s called “Presuppositionalism” and it’s a form of apologetics.

Oh, observing that nonreligious people flock to tarot and astrology is presuppositionalism? Fascinating. You should really write an essay on that since it’s inconsistent with all other scholarship on presuppositionalism.

[Anonymous]

It doesn’t matter if it’s zero percent. Secular liberals will continue to live off the borrowed moral capital of centuries of Judeo-Christian ethics and morality.