Belief In God Plummets Among Youth

[Free Thinker]

Quote from Mercor:

God is in the sky, you fool...

exactly where? on another planet? or further away? we now have the hubble telescope that can look millions of light years away. still no god seen. can you enlighten us so we can go check it out?




"science is giving christians new and interesting gaps for them to cram their ever-diminishing god into – but the inevitable effect of that is to make the god they’re arguing for the nebulous existence of so far removed from the god of the bible as to make it a completely separate entity."

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from PHOENIX TRADING:

Not a bit surprising at all.
Anybody that thinks they posses one of the greatest human minds by definition probably has a wee little problem called hubris.

What should I trust . . . the scientific method which allows 1000 independent scientists to come to the same conclusion . . . or a 1000 independent theists who each hold a separate picture of supposedly the same single deity, and all without a shred of evidence or research to repeat independently? Whatever we do know about the universe is all due to science -

 

[PHOENIX TRADING]

Quote from Free Thinker:

What should I trust . . . the scientific method which allows 1000 independent scientists to come to the same conclusion . . . or a 1000 independent theists who each hold a separate picture of supposedly the same single deity, and all without a shred of evidence or research to repeat independently? Whatever we do know about the universe is all due to science -

You are deaf , dumb and blind but that's not the problem here.
Your adversarial attitude makes me steadfastly refuse to even hint at the answers you so desperately seek.

The fact is you would not be obsessed with incessantly posing all these anti-god threads if you knew you were correct in your assertions/assumptions.

These threads of yours are just a juvenile effort to convince yourself (confirmation bias at work). Of course it will make you feel even better about your insecurity if you can also convince others in accepting your beliefs as well.

Good luck with your search, you're gonna need it.

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from PHOENIX TRADING:

Good luck with your search, you're gonna need it.

trying to scare educated people with threats of fire and brimstone hasnt worked since the last century.
do you fear that your loving god will hurt you? you know, kind of like when you were a child and scared of the boogie man.


George Carlin Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do.. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! ..But He loves you.

 

[AK Forty Seven]

If there is a god I would equate him to a human sociopath who enjoys dog and cock fights since thats all humans has done since their existence

 

[PHOENIX TRADING]

Quote from Free Thinker:

trying to scare educated people with threats of fire and brimstone hasnt worked since the last century.

You're already scared/insecure, so what would be the point?
rotflmao that you so ineptly misunderstood my post.

 

[PHOENIX TRADING]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

If there is a god I would equate him to a human sociopath who enjoys dog and cock fights since thats all humans has done since their existence

Sometimes when you haven't seen the whole movie,the apparent antagonist is really the hero of the story.

 

[jcl]

Quote from Free Thinker:

Pew, which has been studying the trend for 25 years, finds that just 68 percent of millennials in 2012 agree with the statement “I never doubt the existence of God.” That’s down from 76 percent in 2009 and 83 percent in 2007.

This trend is probably exaggerated due to a statistical problem. The millennials are people born in the mid-1980s, and are now in an age where religious and superstitious beliefs drop somewhat anyway due to educational and other influences. This is a generation effect and does not necessarily prove a general retreat of religiosity.

If you'd do a survey on the belief in Santa Claus, you'd also find that this belief always plummets among youth, and yet won't die out.

 

[kut2k2]

Quote from PHOENIX TRADING:

rotflmao that you so ineptly misunderstood my post.

That's hilarious coming from somebody averaging 12 posts a day for over 100 days straight. You've ineptly misunderstood FT's OP which is simply a presentation of facts, as are almost all of his OPs. Maybe if you weren't so obsessed with maximizing your post count and concentrated more on actual critical thinking, you'd be in a better position to respond cogently.

 

[kut2k2]

Quote from CaptainObvious:

The science is not settled! This area of study, simliar to GW, is filled with people who have clouded the "science" based on limited emperical evidence and personal bias.

Actually the science is settled. "Does God exist?" is not a scientific question to begin with, especially when theists play all sorts of childish games with what they mean by "God."

First principle in scholarship: define your terms. Every time a theist has been pinned down to a specific description of his personal god (e.g., Odin), disproof has been simple and straightforward. It's only the slippery characters who refuse to define exactly what they are talking about who have escaped being shown to advocate imaginary beings as their super-friends.