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Atheists & Agnostics

RockRaven

(16,615 posts)

6. It's not going away.

Reply to 3Hotdogs (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2022, 12:58 AM

Nov 2022

It's a subtype of magical thinking, which seems inevitable with humans as a sort of inherent quality, so even if religion were transiently eliminated in the population by happenstance, it would quickly re-start in some manner.

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How long do you think it will be before religion is no longer a significant part of our culture? [View all] 3Hotdogs Nov 2022 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author jimfields33 Nov 2022 #1

Far longer than we will be alive. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2022 #2

not til after the rapture unfortunately msongs Nov 2022 #3

It never will. It comes with being human. PSPS Nov 2022 #4

nope Skittles Nov 2022 #9

My existence stops at the end of my fingers Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #18

When we find a way to become immortal? qazplm135 Nov 2022 #5

I don't see that Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #19

Pretty narrow frame qazplm135 Nov 2022 #21

You framed it I did not Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #22

You didn't give evidence you gave qazplm135 Nov 2022 #24

I disagree Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #25

Lol qazplm135 Nov 2022 #26

Religions have a million and one ways of conning people Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #28

I'm agnostic lol qazplm135 Nov 2022 #29

Agnostic isn't a belief position Genki Hikari Dec 2022 #32

In spite of your qazplm135 Dec 2022 #34

We are NOT born with an idea of an afterlife Genki Hikari Dec 2022 #33

So when you think about qazplm135 Dec 2022 #36

Seriously? Genki Hikari Dec 2022 #31

Lol qazplm135 Dec 2022 #35

It's not going away. RockRaven Nov 2022 #6

+1 Auggie Nov 2022 #12

I don't see it coming back if we could stamp it all out Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #23

Not soon enough! PortTack Nov 2022 #7

not soon enough Skittles Nov 2022 #8

Like a bad penny, it always seems to come back Warpy Nov 2022 #10

One can only hope, SOON! joshdawg Nov 2022 #11

Christmas has become a secular holiday Farmer-Rick Nov 2022 #20

The twelfth of never Walleye Nov 2022 #13

I don't know, but we need to TAX churches NOW. vanlassie Nov 2022 #14

9 grandkids.... 3 are adults. None of them go to church or even talk about religion. 3Hotdogs Nov 2022 #15

Since Trump is considered a god by some Cartoonist Nov 2022 #16

there always seems to be a 35% that hang on to the old ways. rurallib Nov 2022 #17

When the religious nuts finally blow everything up and no one is left. BluesRunTheGame Nov 2022 #27

Too long Genki Hikari Dec 2022 #30

within 10-20 years RussBLib Jan 2023 #37

Stop sending money to televangelists and mega church "Pastors" Sessuch Feb 2023 #38