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Definitely not good news for atheists

The 15 razor sharp teeth of the Question evolution! campaign, are going to publicly rip evolutionary pseudoscience and atheism to shreds. Evolutionists have a long track record of getting devoured in open water conditions (please see: Creation scientists tend to win the creation vs. evolution debates.)

The information about atheism contained in this article is definitely not good news for militant atheist evangelists: The Creation and Earth History Museum and the Question Evolution! Campaign are teaming up! I think it is time for evolutionists to get used to the idea of their pseudoscience being ripped to shreds and devoured. Things definitely do not look for atheism and evolutionism.Conservative 05:24, 10 May 2012 (EDT)

decline of atheism further research

Decline of atheism, further research: http://churchintoronto.blogspot.com/2012/01/atheism-in-decline.html

Find original sources for these additional stats. Conservative 07:45, 21 May 2012 (EDT)

None of the articles that cited for the decline of atheism provided any surveys or peer-reviewable research that indicates that. Most studies that I have seen have said the exact opposite, that atheism is a growing global movement. I think that this claim that atheism is on the decline is highly questionable and ought to be deleted until peer-reviewed surveys can show otherwise.

Looking at the sources cited for the apparent decline of atheism, these articles state figures but when I follow up these figures it does not lead anywhere or show how these statistics were gathered or what methodological approach they used, i.e. what do you consider atheist? Do non-theistic religions like Buddhism get considered atheistic? What about non-theistic Christians, are they considered atheists? What about people who are explicit "non-believers" but do not call themselves atheists? How many people were polled and what groups of people were polled?

Looking at the American Religious Identification Survey (2008) from Trinity College in Connecticut, it explicitly states in the summary that the number of Christians are declining while the number of non-believers are growing. http://b27.cc.trincoll.edu/weblogs/AmericanReligionSurvey-ARIS/reports/ARIS_Report_2008.pdf

I quote; "The American population self-identifies as predominantly Christian but Americans are slowly becoming less Christian. • 86% of American adults identified as Christians in 1990 and 76% in 2008. • The historic Mainline churches and denominations have experienced the steepest declines while the non- denominational Christian identity has been trending upward particularly since 2001. • The challenge to Christianity in the U.S. does not come from other religions but rather from a rejection of all forms of organized religion."

In concerns to the increasing number of atheists, I quote; "The U. S. population continues to show signs of becoming less religious, with one out of every five Americans failing to indicate a religious identity in 2008. • The “Nones” (no stated religious preference, atheist, or agnostic) continue to grow, though at a much slower pace than in the 1990s, from 8.2% in 1990, to 14.1% in 2001, to 15.0% in 2008."

Do you think this is just pseudo-science because it does not conform to a pre-existing ideological bias that desires Christianity to rise in the USA while Atheism declines?

Reddit atheism

/r/atheism

/R/atheism has become an echo chamber for hate speech against Christians and Conservatives in the United States. Currently, it has become a place for the Secular Student Alliance to raise funds to ban God from the public square, particularly schools, and promote left wing politics. I need help constructing a page about /r/atheism. I have added it to /r/reddit, but because of its size I think it warrants its own page.

create a Reddit atheism article if you want. Conservative

Ayn Rand was an atheist and is a major inspiration to the libertarian right and the Tea Party, why is she being ignored?

There have been atheist right-wingers like Ayn Rand who is an inspiration to the libertarian right such as the Tea Party. She rejected the concept of God and religion for being in her view totalitarian and for not placing freedom and responsibility in the hands of individuals. You cannot place Ayn Rand's atheism in the same category as communist totalitarian atheism for instance. People have different reasons for being atheists - people who have gone to a church where a corrupt pastor has led the church may become atheist because they were totally aggravated with the experience of religion as preached by the corrupt pastor. So why are atheism and all atheists being pigeonholed as being akin to communist totalitarians? Why is Ayn Rand's libertarian version of atheism ignored?--TheQuestioner 12:10, 3 August 2012 (EDT)