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| − | [[Image:Marijuana.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Researchers at Florida State University found a strong correlation between an individuals's lack of religious involvement and marijuana use.<ref>[https://www.civilized.life/articles/correlation-lack-of-religion-and-marijuana-use/ New Study Finds High Correlation Between Lack of Religion and Marijuana Use]</ref>]] | + | [[Image:Marijuana.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Researchers at Florida State University found a strong correlation between an individuals's lack of religious involvement and [[marijuana]] use.<ref>[https://www.civilized.life/articles/correlation-lack-of-religion-and-marijuana-use/ New Study Finds High Correlation Between Lack of Religion and Marijuana Use]</ref> See also: [[Atheism and drug addiction]] and [[Atheism and alcoholism]] ]] |
According to ''Scientific American'': "Research also suggests that a religious brain exhibits higher levels of [[dopamine]], a hormone associated with increased attention and [[motivation]]."<ref>[http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/askthebrains/ Ask the Brains, Scientific American, Dec 23, 2011]</ref> See also: [[Atheism and motivation]] | According to ''Scientific American'': "Research also suggests that a religious brain exhibits higher levels of [[dopamine]], a hormone associated with increased attention and [[motivation]]."<ref>[http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/askthebrains/ Ask the Brains, Scientific American, Dec 23, 2011]</ref> See also: [[Atheism and motivation]] | ||
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While a lack of motivation can be seen alongside problems such as depression, immaturity, or even learning disabilities, the most commonly cited cause of amotivational syndrome is [[marijuana]] use.<ref>[https://study.com/academy/lesson/amotivation-syndrome-definition-lesson-quiz.html Amotivational Syndrome: Definition & Explanation], Study.com</ref>}} | While a lack of motivation can be seen alongside problems such as depression, immaturity, or even learning disabilities, the most commonly cited cause of amotivational syndrome is [[marijuana]] use.<ref>[https://study.com/academy/lesson/amotivation-syndrome-definition-lesson-quiz.html Amotivational Syndrome: Definition & Explanation], Study.com</ref>}} | ||
| − | == Irreligion/nonreligion and | + | == Irreligion/nonreligion and marijuana use. Atheism and illegal drug use and drug addiction == |
[[File:Powder meth foil small.jpg|thumbnail|175px|right|Studies indicate that religious individuals are less likely to engage in illegal drug use than atheists/nonreligious.<ref name="drugs">Multiple references: | [[File:Powder meth foil small.jpg|thumbnail|175px|right|Studies indicate that religious individuals are less likely to engage in illegal drug use than atheists/nonreligious.<ref name="drugs">Multiple references: | ||
*Denison, Jim (October 9, 2013). [http://www.christianpost.com/news/believers-consume-fewer-drugs-than-atheists-106266/ "Believers consume fewer drugs than atheists"]. Christian Post website/CP Opinion. Retrieved on May 23, 2015. | *Denison, Jim (October 9, 2013). [http://www.christianpost.com/news/believers-consume-fewer-drugs-than-atheists-106266/ "Believers consume fewer drugs than atheists"]. Christian Post website/CP Opinion. Retrieved on May 23, 2015. | ||
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**Alternate source of abstract: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19210054 "Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: associations, explanations, and implications" [abstract]]. Retrieved from PubMed.gov on September 10, 2014.</ref> ]] | **Alternate source of abstract: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19210054 "Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: associations, explanations, and implications" [abstract]]. Retrieved from PubMed.gov on September 10, 2014.</ref> ]] | ||
| − | ''See also:'' [[Atheism and drug addiction]] | + | ''See also:'' [[Atheism and drug addiction]] and [[Atheism and alcoholism]] |
Researchers at Florida State University found a strong correlation between an individuals's lack of religious involvement and marijuana use.<ref>[https://www.civilized.life/articles/correlation-lack-of-religion-and-marijuana-use/ New Study Finds High Correlation Between Lack of Religion and Marijuana Use]</ref> | Researchers at Florida State University found a strong correlation between an individuals's lack of religious involvement and marijuana use.<ref>[https://www.civilized.life/articles/correlation-lack-of-religion-and-marijuana-use/ New Study Finds High Correlation Between Lack of Religion and Marijuana Use]</ref> | ||
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According to ''Science Daily'': | According to ''Science Daily'': | ||
{{cquote|Young [[Switzerland|Swiss]] men who say that they believe in [[God]] are less likely to smoke cigarettes or pot or take ecstasy pills than Swiss men of the same age group who describe themselves as atheists. Belief is a protective factor against addictive behaviour. This is the conclusion reached by a study funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.<ref>Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Foerderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung [Swiss National Science Foundation] (October 3, 2013). [https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131003093041.htm "Believers consume fewer drugs than atheists"]. Science Daily website/Science News. Retrieved on May 23, 2015.</ref>}} | {{cquote|Young [[Switzerland|Swiss]] men who say that they believe in [[God]] are less likely to smoke cigarettes or pot or take ecstasy pills than Swiss men of the same age group who describe themselves as atheists. Belief is a protective factor against addictive behaviour. This is the conclusion reached by a study funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.<ref>Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Foerderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung [Swiss National Science Foundation] (October 3, 2013). [https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131003093041.htm "Believers consume fewer drugs than atheists"]. Science Daily website/Science News. Retrieved on May 23, 2015.</ref>}} | ||
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== Atheism and motivation == | == Atheism and motivation == | ||
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''See also:'' [[Hopelessness of atheism|Atheism and hopelessness]] and [[Atheism, agnosticism and pessimism]] and [[Atheism and meaninglessness]] | ''See also:'' [[Hopelessness of atheism|Atheism and hopelessness]] and [[Atheism, agnosticism and pessimism]] and [[Atheism and meaninglessness]] | ||
| − | [[File:Rev. Dr. Robert Stuart MacArthur.JPG|thumb| | + | [[File:Rev. Dr. Robert Stuart MacArthur.JPG|thumb|left|200px|The Rev. Dr. [[Robert Stuart MacArthur]] was an early proponent of atheism being a causal factor for suicide.<ref>http://www.adherents.com/misc/religion_suicide.html</ref><ref>http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/161/12/2303</ref><ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9507E2DC1131E033A25754C1A96F9C94659ED7CF NY Times, September 17, 1894, ATHEISM A CAUSE OF SUICIDE.; Dr. MacArthur Preaches on the Sin and Cowardice of Self-Destruction]</ref> See: [[Atheism and suicide]] ]] |
On March 8, 2013, Damon Linker wrote in ''The Week'': | On March 8, 2013, Damon Linker wrote in ''The Week'': | ||
{{cquote|If [[atheism]] is true, it is far from being good news. Learning that we're alone in the [[universe]], that no one hears or answers our prayers, that humanity is entirely the product of random events, that we have no more intrinsic dignity than non-human and even non-animate clumps of matter, that we face certain annihilation in death, that our sufferings are ultimately pointless, that our lives and loves do not at all matter in a larger sense, that those who commit horrific evils and elude human punishment get away with their crimes scot free — all of this (and much more) is utterly tragic.<ref>[http://theweek.com/article/index/241108/where-are-the-honest-atheists Where are the honest atheists?]</ref>}} | {{cquote|If [[atheism]] is true, it is far from being good news. Learning that we're alone in the [[universe]], that no one hears or answers our prayers, that humanity is entirely the product of random events, that we have no more intrinsic dignity than non-human and even non-animate clumps of matter, that we face certain annihilation in death, that our sufferings are ultimately pointless, that our lives and loves do not at all matter in a larger sense, that those who commit horrific evils and elude human punishment get away with their crimes scot free — all of this (and much more) is utterly tragic.<ref>[http://theweek.com/article/index/241108/where-are-the-honest-atheists Where are the honest atheists?]</ref>}} | ||
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''See also:'' [[Atheism and inspiration]] | ''See also:'' [[Atheism and inspiration]] | ||
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Atheist Francois Tremblay wrote: "One last problem that undermines any propagation of [[atheism]] is inspiration. Let's be honest here, "there is no god!" is not a very motivating call for most people."<ref>[http://www.liberator.net/articles/TremblayFrancois/herdingcats.html Herding Cats: Why Atheism Will Lose] by Francois Tremblay</ref> | Atheist Francois Tremblay wrote: "One last problem that undermines any propagation of [[atheism]] is inspiration. Let's be honest here, "there is no god!" is not a very motivating call for most people."<ref>[http://www.liberator.net/articles/TremblayFrancois/herdingcats.html Herding Cats: Why Atheism Will Lose] by Francois Tremblay</ref> | ||
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Is there anything more boring in the world than an atheist?<ref>[http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4626072.ece I don’t believe it – they’re doing atheism at GCSE] by Niles Coren</ref>}} | Is there anything more boring in the world than an atheist?<ref>[http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4626072.ece I don’t believe it – they’re doing atheism at GCSE] by Niles Coren</ref>}} | ||
| + | == Decline of the atheist movement == | ||
| + | ''See also:'' [[Decline of the atheist movement]] and [[Morale of the atheist movement]] and [[Desecularization]] and [[Atheist movement]] | ||
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| + | Numerous atheists have declared that the "[[atheist movement]] is dead" or that it is dying.<ref> | ||
| + | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20190208025358/https://freethoughtblogs.com/reasoner/2017/10/21/the-atheism-movement-dead-or-alive/ The “Atheism Movement:” Dead or Alive?], [[Freethought Blogs]] | ||
| + | *[http://examiningatheism.blogspot.com/2017/11/seth-andrews-keeps-hearing-reports-of.html Atheist activist Seth Andrews keeps seeing reports on social media and the media that the atheist movement is dying], ''Examining Atheism'' | ||
| + | *[http://examiningatheism.blogspot.com/2017/10/now-that-that-poseur-atheist-aron-ra.html Atheist Aron Ra indicates the atheist movement is dead. Now that that Aron Ra has surrendered....], ''[[Examining Atheism]]'' | ||
| + | *[http://www.atheistrev.com/2013/12/the-day-atheist-movement-died.html The Day the Atheist Movement Died] by Jack Vance at Atheist Revolution | ||
| + | *[https://twitter.com/jennifurret/status/405391218273554433 Jennifer McCreight on Twitter about the Elevatorgate scandal destroying the atheist movement], [[Jen McCreight]], Twitter</ref> See: [[Decline of the atheist movement]] | ||
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| + | == See also == | ||
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| + | *[[Atheism and health]] | ||
| + | *[[Atheism and alcoholism]] | ||
| + | *[[Atheism and emotional problems]] | ||
| + | *[[Atheism and mental illness]] | ||
| + | *[[Atheism and mental toughness]] | ||
| + | *[[Atheism, divorce, addiction, sexual satisfaction, social skills, dysfunctional beliefs and attitudes, and irrationality]] | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Latest revision as of 15:55, December 19, 2022
Researchers at Florida State University found a strong correlation between an individuals's lack of religious involvement and marijuana use.[1] See also: Atheism and drug addiction and Atheism and alcoholism
According to Scientific American: "Research also suggests that a religious brain exhibits higher levels of dopamine, a hormone associated with increased attention and motivation."[2] See also: Atheism and motivation
According to Study.com:
| “ | Amotivational syndrome is a term that refers to a lack of desire to complete tasks, a sense of apathy about the future, poor concentration, and decreased interest in social and other activities...
The prefix 'a' means 'not' or 'without.' People who are identified as having amotivational syndrome are 'without motivation.' We all have times when we just can't face our work day or we lose momentum on a project. Perhaps there are certain areas in which you have great trouble maintaining focus, such as daily flossing or going to the gym. However, when an attitude or set of behaviors is called a syndrome, this refers to a larger problem. The person with amotivational syndrome lacks motivation in most areas of his or her life. While a lack of motivation can be seen alongside problems such as depression, immaturity, or even learning disabilities, the most commonly cited cause of amotivational syndrome is marijuana use.[3] |
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Contents
Irreligion/nonreligion and marijuana use. Atheism and illegal drug use and drug addiction
Studies indicate that religious individuals are less likely to engage in illegal drug use than atheists/nonreligious.[4]
See also: Atheism and drug addiction and Atheism and alcoholism
Researchers at Florida State University found a strong correlation between an individuals's lack of religious involvement and marijuana use.[5]
According to Science Daily:
| “ | Young Swiss men who say that they believe in God are less likely to smoke cigarettes or pot or take ecstasy pills than Swiss men of the same age group who describe themselves as atheists. Belief is a protective factor against addictive behaviour. This is the conclusion reached by a study funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.[6] | ” |
Studies indicate that religious individuals are less likely to engage in illegal drug use than atheists/nonreligious.[4]
Atheism and motivation
See also: Atheism and motivation
Brain researchers have conducted a number of studies focusing on the differences between atheists and the religious. See: Atheism and the brain
As noted above, according to Scientific American: "Research also suggests that a religious brain exhibits higher levels of dopamine, a hormone associated with increased attention and motivation."[7] See also: Atheism and the brain and Atheism and inspiration
Atheism, loneliness and depression/suicide
See also: Atheism and depression
Atheism and loneliness
See also: Atheism and loneliness and Atheism and social/interpersonal intelligence
According to an international study done by William Bainbridge, atheism is common among people whose interpersonal social obligations are weak and is also connected to lower fertility rates in advanced industrial nations (See also: Atheism and loneliness and Atheism and social/interpersonal intelligence and Atheism and fertility rates).[8]
Atheism and depression
Concerning atheism and depression]], a University of Michigan study involving 19,775 individuals found that religious people are less likely than atheists to suffer depression when they are lonely.[9] See also: Atheism and suicide
The Telegraph reported: "Patients with a strong “intrinsic faith” (a deep personal belief, not just a social inclination to go to a place of worship) recover 70 per cent faster from depression than those who are not deeply religious."[10]
In addition, in many atheistic cultures in the developed world, there are considerable problems with loneliness (see: Atheism and loneliness). Furthermore, many atheists feel isolated within theistic cultures (see: Atheism and social outcasts).
Atheism and suicide
Atheists are more likely to commit suicide (see: Atheism and suicide).
Atheism and hopelessness
See also: Atheism and hopelessness and Atheism, agnosticism and pessimism and Atheism and meaninglessness
The Rev. Dr. Robert Stuart MacArthur was an early proponent of atheism being a causal factor for suicide.[11][12][13] See: Atheism and suicide
On March 8, 2013, Damon Linker wrote in The Week:
| “ | If atheism is true, it is far from being good news. Learning that we're alone in the universe, that no one hears or answers our prayers, that humanity is entirely the product of random events, that we have no more intrinsic dignity than non-human and even non-animate clumps of matter, that we face certain annihilation in death, that our sufferings are ultimately pointless, that our lives and loves do not at all matter in a larger sense, that those who commit horrific evils and elude human punishment get away with their crimes scot free — all of this (and much more) is utterly tragic.[14] | ” |
Although Bertrand Russell was an agnostic, he had favorable views of atheism.[15] Bertrand Russell wrote in 1903 about entropy and the universe:
| “ | That man is the product of causes that had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve individual life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins- all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand.
"Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding dispair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built." [16] |
” |
In a letter to Lowes Dickinson, Bertrand Russell wrote:
| “ | We stand on the shores of an ocean, crying to the night and the emptiness; sometimes a voice answers out of the darkness. But it is a voice of one drowning; and in a moment the silence returns” (Bertrand Russell, Autobiography, p. 287 as quoted by Leroy Koopman, “Famous Atheists Give Their Testimonies,” Moody Monthly, Nov. 1975, p. 124.) [17] | ” |
Atheism and inspiration
See also: Atheism and inspiration
Atheist Francois Tremblay wrote: "One last problem that undermines any propagation of atheism is inspiration. Let's be honest here, "there is no god!" is not a very motivating call for most people."[18]
The atheist blogger Martin Hughes wrote: "Atheism is boring."[19]
Natasha Frost wrote in the guidebook website Atlas Obscura about the Soviet Union, which had state atheism: "...atheism was taught in schools, alongside history and geography, but in a 1975 survey, many people still professed to find atheistic dogma boring."[20]
The ex-atheist Alister McGrath has repeatedly pointed out the uninspiring nature of atheism.[21][22] According to McGrath, atheism is "stale", "dull" and difficult to believe.[23]
John Updike wrote:
| “ | Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity...of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?".[24] | ” |
The British columnist Giles Coren wrote in The Times:
| “ | But it’s not the nihilism, the soullessness, the lack of poetry, the moral and physical ugliness, the shallow iconoclasm or the vainglory of atheists that bother me most. It’s the boringness.
Is there anything more boring in the world than an atheist?[25] |
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Decline of the atheist movement
See also: Decline of the atheist movement and Morale of the atheist movement and Desecularization and Atheist movement
Numerous atheists have declared that the "atheist movement is dead" or that it is dying.[26] See: Decline of the atheist movement
See also
- Atheism and health
- Atheism and alcoholism
- Atheism and emotional problems
- Atheism and mental illness
- Atheism and mental toughness
- Atheism, divorce, addiction, sexual satisfaction, social skills, dysfunctional beliefs and attitudes, and irrationality
References
- ↑ New Study Finds High Correlation Between Lack of Religion and Marijuana Use
- ↑ Ask the Brains, Scientific American, Dec 23, 2011
- ↑ Amotivational Syndrome: Definition & Explanation, Study.com
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Multiple references:
- Denison, Jim (October 9, 2013). "Believers consume fewer drugs than atheists". Christian Post website/CP Opinion. Retrieved on May 23, 2015.
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Foerderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung [Swiss National Science Foundation] (October 3, 2013). "Believers consume fewer drugs than atheists". Science Daily website/Science News. Retrieved on May 23, 2015.
- Multiple references:
- McCullough, Michael E. and Willoughby, Brian L. B. (January 2009). "Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: associations, explanations, and implications" Psychological Bulletin, vol. 135, no. 1, pp. 69-93. Retrieved from University of Miami department of psychology website on September 10, 2014.
- Alternate source of abstract: "Religion, self-regulation, and self-control: associations, explanations, and implications" [abstract]. Retrieved from PubMed.gov on September 10, 2014.
- ↑ New Study Finds High Correlation Between Lack of Religion and Marijuana Use
- ↑ Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Foerderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung [Swiss National Science Foundation] (October 3, 2013). "Believers consume fewer drugs than atheists". Science Daily website/Science News. Retrieved on May 23, 2015.
- ↑ Ask the Brains, Scientific American, Dec 23, 2011
- ↑ Bainbridge, William (2005). "Atheism" (PDF). Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion. 1 (Article 2): 1–26.
- ↑ Lonely religious people are less depressed than atheists because they see God as a friend replacement, study finds, Daily Mail, 2018
- ↑ What God does to your brain by Julia Llewellyn Smith. The Telegraph, 20 Jun 2014
- ↑ http://www.adherents.com/misc/religion_suicide.html
- ↑ http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/161/12/2303
- ↑ NY Times, September 17, 1894, ATHEISM A CAUSE OF SUICIDE.; Dr. MacArthur Preaches on the Sin and Cowardice of Self-Destruction
- ↑ Where are the honest atheists?
- ↑ Russell, Bertrand (1947) "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?"[1] Most online sources say "by which one prove," probably a mistake.
- ↑ Entropy and heat death
- ↑ Atheism and the despair of hope
- ↑ Herding Cats: Why Atheism Will Lose by Francois Tremblay
- ↑ Atheism Is Boring by Martin Hughes
- ↑ How the USSR Turned Houses of Worship Into Museums of Atheism by Natasha Frost, Atlas Obscura, MAY 07, 2018
- ↑ Clear Voices 2014 - Alister McGrath - C. S. Lewis’s Vision of the Christianity
- ↑ In the Aftermath: Provocations and Laments By David Bentley Hart, page 136
- ↑
- ‘Stale, dull atheism is in decline’ says professor, The Christian Institute
- Atheism in decline and will be defeated by faith, says Oxford professor by Harry Farley, Christianity Today, 25 November 2015
- ↑ Updike, John (1989). Self-Consciousness: Memoirs (New York, NY: Knopf), ch. 4.
- ↑ I don’t believe it – they’re doing atheism at GCSE by Niles Coren
- ↑
- The “Atheism Movement:” Dead or Alive?, Freethought Blogs
- Atheist activist Seth Andrews keeps seeing reports on social media and the media that the atheist movement is dying, Examining Atheism
- Atheist Aron Ra indicates the atheist movement is dead. Now that that Aron Ra has surrendered...., Examining Atheism
- The Day the Atheist Movement Died by Jack Vance at Atheist Revolution
- Jennifer McCreight on Twitter about the Elevatorgate scandal destroying the atheist movement, Jen McCreight, Twitter
