Not talking about the existance of God, talking about the existance of people who believe in dieties, which do exist beyond any reasonable doubt.
Is secularism growing? Yes. Does that mean the rate of growth will sustain itself until it whole? Well, one cannot foresee the future but one can look at the past. And through the lens of the past the odds of that are next to nothing.
Growth eventually decays and tapers off. No group ever becomes the whole of humanity. It may seem like it at the time to some. I mean during the Protestant Reformation there was certainly an explosion of Christians who didn't see themselves as Catholic anymore, something unheard of prior. However, Catholicism didn't die, it's still around.
Ironically, it's the same creativity and imagination that allows us to project ourselves as fictional animal avatars that is the same that allows people to really believe that there is a grander purpose looked over by some omnipresent hand. That there is a great judge who punishes all those who human beings fail to, through corruption or mistake. It keeps them from going out and murdering all those they feel who wronged them because they believe they'll be punished in the future anyway. It's sort of a check and balance on the individual more then anything, and trust me, some of these people need that. (Not to say that check and balance doesn't always work because even those that call themselves believers would be so foolish as to try and believe they are the ones who can arrogantly dole out the justice of God, but that's another story all together)
But what does this have to do about obtaining gay rights? Absolutely nothing. So I'll stop the religious talk here.
Not talking about the existance of God, talking about the existance of people who believe in dieties, which do exist beyond any reasonable doubt.
Is secularism growing? Yes. Does that mean the rate of growth will sustain itself until it whole? Well, one cannot foresee the future but one can look at the past. And through the lens of the past the odds of that are next to nothing.
Growth eventually decays and tapers off. No group ever becomes the whole of humanity. It may seem like it at the time to some. I mean during the Protestant Reformation there was certainly an explosion of Christians who didn't see themselves as Catholic anymore, something unheard of prior. However, Catholicism didn't die, it's still around.
Ironically, it's the same creativity and imagination that allows us to project ourselves as fictional animal avatars that is the same that allows people to really believe that there is a grander purpose looked over by some omnipresent hand. That there is a great judge who punishes all those who human beings fail to, through corruption or mistake. It keeps them from going out and murdering all those they feel who wronged them because they believe they'll be punished in the future anyway. It's sort of a check and balance on the individual more then anything, and trust me, some of these people need that. (Not to say that check and balance doesn't always work because even those that call themselves believers would be so foolish as to try and believe they are the ones who can arrogantly dole out the justice of God, but that's another story all together)
But what does this have to do about obtaining gay rights? Absolutely nothing. So I'll stop the religious talk here.