Who is winning in the west: christianity or atheism?

Quote from tomdavis:

The question of whether or not god exists cannot be answered.

I'm surprised that religious people spend so much time and effort declaring with certainty that god exists. I'm equally surprised that atheists spend so much time and effort declaring with absolute certainty that god does not exist.

Both sides in this ridiculous debate appear mentally ill to me. The question cannot be answered and therefore deserves no time or effort.

That would be true ONLY IF the religious kept their beliefs out of our schools and government and tax polices.
 
The percentage of people in North America by sub-national divisions (except Mexico) who identify with a religion, as opposed to having "no religion" (1991, 1998, 2000, 2001)

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Percentages of people in European countries with no belief in a spirit, god, or life force (Eurobarometer 2005)

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Percentages of people in European countries who said in 2005 that they "believe there is a God"

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Quote from tomdavis:

The question of whether or not god exists cannot be answered.

I'm surprised that religious people spend so much time and effort declaring with certainty that god exists. I'm equally surprised that atheists spend so much time and effort declaring with absolute certainty that god does not exist.

Both sides in this ridiculous debate appear mentally ill to me. The question cannot be answered and therefore deserves no time or effort.

you are wrong. it is one of the most important questions. belief in gods influences almost everything we do. this question influences the wars we are waging, how we educate our children, suffering and death because of overpopulation and why the republican party acts the way it does.
man can not advance until the belief that there is invisible man in the sky who wants us to act in a certain way is educated out of the minds of the population.
 
Quote from Free Thinker:

....educated out of the minds of the population.

You and Stalin would have been good friends. That's the same thing he used to say.
 
Quote from tomdavis:

You and Stalin would have been good friends. That's the same thing he used to say.

you dont think its a good thing that education be used to fight superstition?
 
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