Godless America: The New Religious-less Reality by Staks Rosch

[Rob H.]

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Godless America: The New Religious-less Reality
by Staks Rosch
Blogger, atheist, and Humanist
Posted: 01/29/2013 11:31 am

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The religiously unaffiliated or "nones" make up about 19 percent of the American population. That's nearly one in five Americans. I know, not all those people are "convinced atheists," but the Pew Research Center does break down those numbers a little bit and most of the "nones" don't believe in any deities. So yeah, they're atheists. Thirty-six percent of the "nones" are flat-out convinced atheists and agnostics. Thirty-nine percent consider themselves secular or not religious. In other words, they don't like to use the "A-labels" but they still don't believe in any deities. Only 23 percent of the religiously unaffiliated "nones" consider themselves to be unattached believers. That means that 77 percent of the "nones" don't believe in deities. That's about 14 percent of the American people and 0 percent of Congress.

While religious lawmakers continue to waste tax-payer money pushing laws that affirm "In God We Trust" as our national motto, it is their religious-based laws which continue to attack the rights of women, gays people and racial minorities that are most problematic. Those things aren't helping religions grow one bit. On the contrary, they are making it easier for me to make my case that basing our laws on the Bible is silly and dangerous. It is much better to base our laws on secular values like human compassion, fairness and reason.

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As information becomes more available to the general public via the Internet, religion can no longer hide. When religious leaders make claims, people can now turn to Google and research those claims. You won't find a religious leader claiming that there are no contradictions in the Bible anymore because a quick Google search can expose that as nonsense. That old line claiming that something can't come from nothing is easily refuted with a YouTube search on Lawrence Krauss.

Whether religious believers like it or not, we are at the dawn of a new godless age in America. Religious leaders know it and they are afraid. The greater community of reason is organizing and we are starting to demand equal treatment and representation. It won't be long before we actually get it, either. Religious believers can deface our billboards, but they cannot prevent the inevitable reality that our message is getting out there. People are starting to think critically about the beliefs they have been indoctrinated to believe and they are leaving their religions behind.

[trotsky]

1. This bit of info will upset a certain individual who's been posting about the Nones...

and breathlessly proclaiming how they haven't actually abanoned god, just religion.

So I predict she'll ignore it and continue to believe in the narrative she prefers.

[uriel1972]

2. Only one in five? hmmm

we'll have to work much, much harder then.

[0zone]

3. And the other 4 in five...

...couldn't coherently explain their chosen religion (or more like the religion they were born into) to a monkey.