ATHEISM IS SHRINKING TO NEAR 0%

>W-we're on the right side of history
Atheists in 1970 were 4.5% of the population
in 2010 it will be 2%
in 2020 it will be 1.8%
in 2050 it will be 1%
in 2100, it will be

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religionnews.com/2017/08/04/britains-first-same-sex-marriage-celebrated-in-a-scottish-church/
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pewforum.org/2017/04/05/the-changing-global-religious-landscape/
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Humans have an innate sense of god.

God is with us.

This people dont get that religion is part of us socially. You get rid of it something else fills the void and people try real hard to pretend that is not religion.

Now we just need to stop these fedora retards from trying to push Islam.

>If anyone disputes my claim it must make them a fedora tipper!

Religion is a part of our societies because religious leaders pushed "believe this or be punished by us, or by the threat of eternal damnation". It was forced into our society by those who wanted power under the guise of religion and morality. It's humans and their greed for power that is part of us socially - religion is just a product of that.

This is only to be expected. Materialistic Atheism is, after all, a self-defeating ideology. By rejecting everything, only relativism remains. A truly consistent atheist can't even do science. If we go by the standards of materialism proposed by the Wiener Kreiz (basically "we will stop about anything we cannot materially point out" (ie. they won't discuss love unless they can find the exact cell, hormone or particle that is love)), they need to drop all science instantly. The thing is that you can empirically test things, but you cannot empirically prove empiricism right (becaue it presupposes itself), nor can you empirically prove the scientific method (which itself rests on logic), nor can you prove the existence or correctness of logic and mathematics (which are metaphysical). In short, a true atheists would be a post-modernist by definition. He'd be like Feyerabend, who considered science and witchcraft equally valid.

It is, as a system, unsustainable. And this is nothing new, we've had this debate before. Socrates and his ilk vs the sophists. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle all believed in the divine in one way or another and therefore believed in objective logic. The sophists rejected all truths, other than that man is the measuring tool foor all things.

Perhaps someday the "skeptics" of today will be ridiculed with the same scorn as the sophists of yesteryear.

prri.org/research/american-religious-landscape-christian-religiously-unaffiliated/

churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor-articles/139575-7-startling-facts-an-up-close-look-at-church-attendance-in-america.html

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The reason Atheism is shrinking is because the mudshits are outbreading whites 10 to 1.

Dis.

So simple yet no one understands it... They think an atheist will wake up one day and be like you know what? I ll start believing from now on. If it weren't for christians in mudfilled places they d go extinct before atheists do.

This is due almost entirely to larger demographic shifts.

And because millions of Chinese atheists are converting to Christianity.

I think you should focus on the "white" oart on that image

this is only driven by china, and the fact that there will be 4 billion Africans in 2100

Holy shit this pic, confirmed atheists are cucks

You're objectively wrong. There have been multiple studies confirming that even children never exposed to it have supernatural beliefs, and that these have been evolutionarily ingrained into our brains. Even atheists have deep "religious" beliefs, as evidenced by among others studies in which Atheists are confirmed to feel emotionally aroused when daring God to do horrible things. Yet there's no such emotional arousal when daring the easter bunny to do such things, so what gives?

And because the "enlightened" simply do not have enough children to sustain themselves as a demographic without "leeching" off perverts (in the literal sense). It's not about who's reproducing the fastest alone, it's about what civilizational concept doesn't collapse in on itself.

Chinks were always christfags.

that many people in one area with such low IQ and sanitation will cause great plagues to break out, and kill them before we can save them. The trick is to stop them before they come here.

it's not shrinking, just the other groups are growing fast

Post the unshopped one, christfag.

>prri.org/research/american-religious-landscape-christian-religiously-unaffiliated/


Such as this one?

It's not "only" driven by developments in areas that will form 80% of the world's population in 2100, it's ESPECIALLY driven by developments in Europe and North America: Latino Catholics and Arabic Muslims displacing the local secular population which simply cannot sustain itself.

>such low IQ
China has a higher average IQ than most European countries though. This divide will only grow as Europe's dysgenic processes cause its collapse.

Not a real Christians.

>children never exposed to it have supernatural beliefs

Kids also have imaginary friends and make up a lot of stupid shit - when do we set up the church for imaginary friends?

>Even atheists have deep "religious" beliefs, as evidenced by among others studies in which Atheists are confirmed to feel emotionally aroused when daring God to do horrible things.
It's almost as if the human brain finds the thought of a vengeful omnipotent entity more threatening than a fucking bunny that distributes chocolate eggs or something? Just because they find the concept more threatening does not mean that there is a "deep seeded belief". I am scared about the thought of creepy monsters, they don't exist though. The human brain makes a lot of shit up.

Churches in Europe blessing same sex celebrants:

religionnews.com/2017/08/04/britains-first-same-sex-marriage-celebrated-in-a-scottish-church/

archive.is/5p3DJ

news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/08/25/17/italian-protestant-church-says-i-do-to-gay-blessings

archive.is/qSJ0j

lep.co.uk/news/church-takes-its-first-gay-wedding-booking-1-8737310

from: prri.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/PRRI-Millennials-Web-FINAL.pdf

Millennials draw no distinctions between discrimination protections that should be afforded gay and lesbian people, on the one hand, and transgender people on the other. More than seven in ten (73%) millennials support legal protections against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing for gay and lesbian people. A nearly identical number (72%) of millennials say they favor these same protections for transgender people.

While no significant racial or gender differences exist on either question, there are large religious divides in support for expanding nondiscrimination legislation. Roughly eight in ten black Protestant (80%), white Catholic (82%), Hispanic Catholic (81%), religiously unaffiliated (83%), and white mainline Protestant millennials (78%) favor laws that would protect gay and lesbian people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing. About two-thirds (66%) of Hispanic Protestant millennials also favor such laws. White evangelical Protestants are closely divided on this issue, with a slim majority (51%) favoring laws that would protect gay and lesbian people against discrimination, and 47% opposing them. Among religious groups, the pattern of opinion about non-discrimination legislation protecting transgender individuals is nearly identical.

Religion promotes fertility and is evolutionary selected for. No wonder.

Believing in invisible friends is a mental illness.

its almost never talked about, but China had a devastating civil war over Christianity. And by devastating I mean one of the DEADLIEST wars in HUMAN HISTORY. 20-30 million people died, which is world war levels. With the Heavenly Kingdom of Jesus fighting the Qing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Heavenly_Kingdom

If Atheism is dying how does that explain lower church attendance?

churchleadership.org/apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=42346

>From 1990 to 2000, the combined membership of all Protestant denominations in the USA declined by almost 5 million members (9.5 percent), while the US population increased by 24 million (11 percent).

>The United States now ranks third (3rd) following China and India in the number of people who are not professing Christians; in other words, the U.S. is becoming an ever increasing "un-reached people group."

First, Hispanic Catholics are nearly twice as likely as white Catholics to be parents of children under the age of 18 (30% vs. 16%, respectively). The discrepancy in parental status is driven largely by age differences between Hispanic Catholics and white Catholics. Second, Hispanic Catholics are more likely to have larger families: Close to three in ten (28%) Hispanic Catholic parents have at least three children under the age of 18 living at home, while 21% of white Catholic families report the same.

White Christians stand out in that they do not have young children living at home. Nearly three-quarters of white evangelical Protestants (73%), white mainline Protestants (73%), and white Catholics (75%) do not have children under the age of 18 living at home. Roughly seven in ten Jews (71%) and Buddhists (72%), and approximately two-thirds of religiously unaffiliated Americans (68%), black Protestants (67%), and Hindus (67%), also report that they have no children living in their household. In contrast, only about half (50%) of Hispanic Catholics and Hispanic Protestants (52%) have no children in their households.

How am I supposed to trust anything this article says when the first thing they post on it is a lie?

twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/723106487271301120?lang=en

its shrinking because white population is shrinking

>islam conquers the world
>christfags: ha-ha atheism is done for!
we have moved on already to new intellectual battlefields *last tip of fedora*

Yes, because people not going to church makes them automatically atheists.

Looks like 3 niglets to me.

uh, i guess al those fedora memes are working

aka. the reason why godless libshits always reference Harry Potter and Star Wars. Replace every reference to Voldemort with Satan and it becomes clear.

I can't believe in God, I've tried.
God is punishing me for being a degenerate.

Religions will rise and fall but as long as there are humans there will always be non-believers

>atheists defend muzzies
>muzzies demographically replace atheists
>muzzies purge atheist infidels from their new caliphate

like pottery

Atheists are cancer though. They're just as zealous as religious cucks in expressing their believes. We wuz pagans.

Some shitty website
Atheism fastest shrinking religion
Atheism religion

Yeah ur fucking retarded m8

>when do we set up the church for imaginary friends?
By your logic we already have those, don't we? Or does God stop being an imaginary friend when it suits your purposes? That said, there's a big difference between religious beliefs and imaginary friends.

>It's almost as if the human brain finds the thought of a vengeful omnipotent entity more threatening than a fucking bunny that distributes chocolate eggs or something?
Why would an atheist, who disbelieves in both, find one more threatening than the other? The Punisher and the Easter Bunny are equally threatening to me, and I could demand both to kill children in an orphanage with the same degree of indifference. Why is God so different? Perhaps it's the wide array of scientific literature confirming engrained religious beliefs even among atheists?

it's all muslims you retards

I kinda want to become an East orthadox preacher for china or another east Asian atheist country, some Buddhist/east asian beliefs believe that people who work "Dirty" jobs are spiritually unpure, this even includes japan to a diminishing degree. I think I can help them since all are equal under Christ, from beggars to kings. And the japs wont have to worry about the fish on Fridays thing since they all eat fish most of the time.
I was talking more about Africa, where religion is also growing, but they'd believe in every supernatural system if they heard of all of them.

only because they're so god damn miserable in their gulags they need happiness and hope from somewhere, and communism can'r provide it.

Its proof that religous belief, especially strong religious belief, is dying out.

Just a few more decades and god will be totally dead in western nations.

American and partly western atheists are that way because they're rebelling against zealous religious cucks.

Try and find all the edgy fedora tippers in Japan.

How about you actually read the PEW report before ridiculing yourself?
pewforum.org/2017/04/05/the-changing-global-religious-landscape/

The only religious groups projected to show less growth than the unaffiliated are the "others" and buddhists. All other religious groups are showing greater degrees of growth.

I wonder why that might be happening :^)

>Ghosts aren't real because they haven't been observed and there's no natural way a ghost can exist
That makes sense.
>Gods aren't real because they haven't been observed and there's no natural way a god can exist
RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YOU JUST HATE WHITE PEOPLE AND EVERYTHING GOOD IN THE WORLD YOU'RE EVIL YOU KEK!

>graph is all similar colors
Who the fuck thought this was a good idea? They should be shot.

>tfw single white male catholic
no wonder you can't find any young catholics
they don't exist

>more muslims due to africans and arabs
>more hindus because of more poos
>more christians because more chinks

Oh wow, how wonderful

I hope Muslims take over the world so I can throws rocks at infidels

>but they'd believe in every supernatural system if they heard of all of them
And yet Africa is the continent where the unaffiliated have the highest natural growth.
pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/07/why-people-with-no-religion-are-projected-to-decline-as-a-share-of-the-worlds-population/

Sucks when the facts aren't on your side, huh?

That's because the majority of the Japanese population are pagans (Shinto, Buddhism).

>By your logic we already have those, don't we?
Yes

>Or does God stop being an imaginary friend when it suits your purposes?
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Existing religious churches are exactly the same thing as erecting churches in the name of imaginary friends.

>That said, there's a big difference between religious beliefs and imaginary friends.
Like what? As far as I know, children's imaginary friends don't often threaten them with eternal damnation so I guess that is a point for the imaginary friends side.

>Why would an atheist, who disbelieves in both, find one more threatening than the other?
Because the human brain is naturally structured to find some things more threatening than others. I don't believe in ghosts and monsters, and a lot of people don't. A lot of people however would become at the very least "unsettled" if they had to walk through a spooky house or some other similar scenario. The brain is structured to always ask "what if?", that's why we are intelligent, other creatures don't ask that. If an atheist is slightly concerned and questions "what if?", it is natural and part of the questioning process to find the truth.

Atheists are the liberals of religion.

>views are the result of revolting against mommy and daddy
>adopted their beliefs because it's the easier side to take
>hate Christianity, still participate in Christmas
>have actively assisted the death of the west (helping muzzies and discouraging Christians)
>are mostly a college aged group of pompous buffoons who just want to appear smarter (aka more progressive) than their peers
>throw a fit in the presence of a christian (nazi) even if they're not doing anything
>"god bless you" is met with "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY YOU IGNORANT HICK?!"
>will ultimately lose and kys

What is your point?

>flipping correlation and causation

What y'all niggas need to understand is that shintoism and buddhism are orthoprax religions, unlike the orthodox religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

>proportion of spics keeps growing and growing
>spics are almost 100% christians
hmm

are you aware that your image has an embed of child pornography? Inspect the image detail in chrome. You might have some virus.

Apatheist here.

It's not mandatory to believe in anything.

>in 2010 it will be 2%
What year is it now? 1984?

>get baptized
>don't count as an atheist

Wow, it's fucking nothing.

Oh wait, actually you are right, athiesm is a meme, please tell me which god is the real one so I start worshiping him.

Nope in europe it will be replaced by Allah

unaffiliated due to believing every thing they hear about mysticism, there is a difference between those who believe in the empirically proven and supernatural and those who believe in just the Supernatural. In that you can tell them anything and they'd believe in it's power even if they don't like it or fully believe.
That and they've been given the most aid.

>sending good vibes and atheist prayers

>atheism is pretty much only present in the 1st world
>euphoric neckbeards by definition will die virgins
>edgy atheists will OD before they procreate
>rational atheists are usually smart enough to have a few kids, but not the 5-10 that mudslimes, Mitt Romney, and other religiously fueled procreatirs have
>pol-tier WN atheists/pagans are a minority even by atheists already small standards
>white guilt is causing the 3rd world to explode in population
Its not really hard to see why it's vanishing, lad

>The brain is structured to always ask "what if?"
So you agree with me that religious belief is ingrained in the human brain in one form or another? What happened to your previous statement ( Religion is a part of our societies because religious leaders pushed "believe this or be punished by us, or by the threat of eternal damnation")? Do you think your insults hid the fact that you're contradicting yourself?

I prefer to use the word 'way of life' for orthoprax religions.

Being "unaffiliated" in Africa means you likely believe in raping a virgin curing aids

Does this take into account agnostics? Believing there is no God is just as unprovable as believing there is one. Agnosticism is the most logical choice.

>unaffiliated due to believing every thing they hear about mysticism
Funny that this would make them "unaffiliated" even though African folk beliefs are inherrently synchretic, to the point where even African Islam has some folk beliefs mixed with it. But hey, whatever helps you sleep at night.

>What is your point?
When praising quantity people forget about quality. Check who is Pope and what he is saying. Region follows its believers and 3rd worlders dominating it will shape religion into their 3rd world.

Alright, but it comes down to the same thing. The Nips don't have this same idea of devoutness as Christian cultures do. To them you're devout if you attend all festivals, go to the temple on certain days et cetera. I imagine that to them the idea of a non-denominational, non-churchgoing Christian is just as outlandish as many Christians would find the idea of a Nip who rejects the existence of Kami but still calls himself a Shintoist.

Can you explain why you're being an uptight asshole

>So you agree with me that religious belief is ingrained in the human brain in one form or another?

No? Someone asking "what if" about whatever life throws at them is not the same thing at all. A human is met with a claim or thought, and they ask themselves "what if?" then after thinking about the evidence, they either come to a "yes, that is true" or "no, that is false". You very well know that isn't the same thing as religious belief being ingrained. Stop being so disingenuous.

what chinese christians believe is pretty far away from euro/us christianity. they basically think of it as a magic spell that will make them rich. history always repeats- africans who were converted by missionaries believed the bible was a spell book

something like 15% of all people who claim to follow a religion don't actually believe it, they just do it because of parental/societal pressure, etc. saudi arabia is supposedly "100% muslim" but there are tons of saudi non-believers hiding out on twitter, facebook etc. of course they will never admit it in public.
can't remember where i read the 15% number, might have been in a christopher hitchens book

And clearly, the world is getting better because of it.

It's time to step up the game.
>merry
>Have children
>teach them fundamental christian values
> be unapologetic and stand ground
yes, atheism will disappear in the fringes. Nobody wants the vacuum it and it's talking heads are advocating.
This is the time to take a step back, go to church and enjoy a based lifestyle

If you believe the Bible or another holy-book is the literal truth you are an eternal brainlet.

If you have experienced the richness of subjective experiences (especially through meditation/shrooms/etc), the richness of how you perceive 'truth' at a given point in your life, have studied mathematics, physics, evolutionary biology, art, etc and think the universe has no over-arching 'meaning' and don't sense how everything is in some way part of the same eternal monad, I feel you aren't seeing the big picture. Maybe I just have personality traits which predispose me to religious irrationality, but to me seeing a Mandelbrot set, observing a tree hit by wind rustle with thousands of individual, beautiful leaves, experiencing the ecstasy of orgasm, or just seeing the vividness of the color red makes me feel connected to some larger architecture of eternal recurrence.

How do I stop being an atheist? Which religion should I convert to?

I thought Atheism was not caring whether god exists or not,it was actually about god not existing 100%, so I moved to Agnosticism and stopped arguing on the internet.

>holding that he was the second son of God and the younger brother of Jesus

Scumbag heretic, no wonder he lost. He would've been successful if he actually preached the Bible.

will they finally get souls?

Islam. It's the most logical and based

>When praising quantity people forget about quality.
So what you're saying is that the only way to preserve quality is to make Europe return to its Christian roots? We're not neccessarily in disagreement here.

So let me reconstruct your reasoning here
>Religion only arose because religous leaders used threatening language
>Which is entirely unrelated to pre-concieved religious beliefs that even exist among children of atheist households and atheist adults, confirmed by various scientific papers
>This is simply related to the "what if" mechanism in human minds, which is utterly unrelated to religious belief arising in the first place
wat?

>A human is met with a claim or thought, and they ask themselves "what if?" then after thinking about the evidence, they either come to a "yes, that is true" or "no, that is false".
Then explain the fact that even atheists hold to theological reasoning, seeking explanations that don't make sense in a materialistic world? (www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(12)00267-7?large_figure=true)

What you also sweep under the rug is that "Born Believers" actually treats imaginary friends, and expressly states that most children do have an inherrent understanding that imaginary friends aren't real. Yet they don't show this same understanding towards the supernatural.

So, between children being able to tell that imaginary friends aren't real and adult atheists still maintaining a teleological world view (which greatly surpasses a mere "what if"), you're wrong. I have yet to see you cite a single academic paper or book in your favor.

>There have been multiple studies confirming that even children never exposed to it have supernatural beliefs
How do you confirm a child has not been exposed to supernatural beliefs?

Supernatural beliefs = naivety. So it really just becomes "children never exposed naivety exhibit naivety." Groundbreaking study you have right there.

>Atheists are confirmed to feel emotionally aroused when daring God to do horrible things
God is an authority that most people believe in and even those who don't believe understand that it's taboo. The easter bunny is not authority and is not taken seriously by anyone.

Atheism is the white man's belief why would you want to convert

Christianity.
Protestant in the US or Catholic in Europe.
Skip the fringes, they're scary.

>How do you confirm a child has not been exposed to supernatural beliefs?
Being raised in a non-religious household?

>Supernatural beliefs = naivety. So it really just becomes "children never exposed naivety exhibit naivety."
This presupposes that "supernatural beliefs" and "naivety" are synonyms. If you honestly believe that, I have a fedora you might want to try on for size.

>Being raised in a non-religious household?
How do you ensure they weren't exposed to it by peers, television or the internet? I refuse to believe anyone over the age of 5 has not been exposed to supernatural references.

>Religion only arose because religous leaders used threatening language
Religion arose because primitive people could not explain things like the sun. "It must have been god" they said. The original claim was that it was a part of us "socially", and my response was that it is because indoctrination by those seeking power.

>This is simply related to the "what if" mechanism in human minds, which is utterly unrelated to religious belief arising in the first place
See above, people asked "what if" about the sun and didn't have a better explanation so god dunnit.

>Then explain the fact that even atheists hold to theological reasoning
I can't speak for all atheists? How can I do that? I can tell you that I do not subscribe to theological reasoning. I seek explanations through what can be verified with evidence.

>I have yet to see you cite a single academic paper or book in your favor.
The burden of proof isn't on me. You are making the claim that god is real, and using "some atheists in a study felt a little funny when they told god to strike them down". You realize how much of a long shot that is, don't you? You're saying the only evidence of god can literally only be found in people, almost as if god is a human construct or something? Hmm..

>is to make Europe return to its Christian roots?
3rd worlders outnumber European Christians and would be in future. Sorry white man but like everything Christianity doesn't belong to you anymore. It belongs to vibrant diverse multicolored world. Seriously checks Popes nationality. You would never get "Christian roots" Pope ever again.
>inb4 we will make our new special snowflake version of Christian church

>actually believing in a bearded dude that gives a shit what you do

That's a scenario that's utterly impossible to empirically test, basically on par with "how do you know there aren't underground invisible fairies with apple magnets?". The closest we can get to such a scenario is reconstructing it through neurological and psychological data. That, and your scenario also introduces a difficult problem of the first people with religious belief arising. If they were exposed to the supernatural, then there's something supernatural. If not, then they had some kind of neurological mechanism that gave rise to it.

>You are making the claim that god is real
Yeah... nah. Cite me on that.

>and using "some atheists in a study felt a little funny when they told god to strike them down".
Multiple studies, actually. For all your "burden of proof" talk, you're going against multiple academics (many of them themselves confirmed atheists) because you don't like the conclusion. You cannot just dismiss everything you don't like by yelling "burden of proof!". There are such things as counterarguments.

>You're saying the only evidence of god can literally only be found in people
I'm not saying that. Drop your irrational anger and actually focus on the discussion at hand: whether or not religious belief is ingrained in the human mind.

so, you must lie to feel superior?

Atheism is alive and well, better than ever in fact. Look around you and see how many people actually go to church or take the Bible as gospel seriously.
It's more a matter of people no longer identifying as atheist because atheism is no longer an edgy counter culture so there is no point going around and tipping your fedora.