QUOTE: “For the first time in history atheists constitute the largest religious group in America” HERE.
WAIT A MINUTE !! Atheism is the lack of a religious belief. Why is it being called a religion?  According to the General Social Survey, the number of Americans who have no religion has increased 266% over the past three decades and now account for 23.1% of the population, just barely edging out Catholics and Evangelicals as the nation’s dominant faith. (Atheism is not a faith. It is in fact not even the the opposite of faith. Atheism is a set of values based on the real world while religion is a set of values based on a mystical set of ideas. Mystical values are not based in the real world.) Mainline Protestant churches have suffered the greatest collapse, declining 62.5% since 1982 and now comprising just 10.8% of the U.S. population. What exactly is “Religion”? One definition is: “religion is a set of mystical ideas about the supernatural nature of reality and what that means for human life.” Atheism utterly fails to meet the mystical or the supernatural criteria for religion. Atheism is to religion as Science is to God.
Views: 4
