It does suggest that the decline has stopped. Maybe also true in other western countries.
It is what I expected. Given stable rates of loss religious belief and non-religious people converting (ignoring conversions between religions) there will be an equilibrium.
It still matter what religion people follow. One of the big changes, especially in the US, has been the growth of evangelical Christianity (often Biblical literalist and right wing) at the expense of traditional big denominations.
Its hard to imagine a non-neurological basis for the ardent believers, it takes a lot to stick to belief in obvious falsehoods. There have been hundreds of religions throughout history, all of them thought they were the true one. None of them even stand scrutiny to basic arguments, let alone the very high amount of rigor such a supposedly fundamental truth must demand.
The point of a religion is to provide a devoted in-group with a coherent set of values and principles, subsequently fulfilling an individual's social needs of stability and belonging. God and other supernatural concepts are just social communication tools to enable the same, and are not meant to be treated as scientific theorems to prove or disprove.
Your ad-hominem tirade is embarrassingly juvenile.
I have met very few religious people who claim the god and supernatural stuff isn't capital T Truth. They'd be offended if I said religion is just a lifestyle or moral system, some even to the point of violent genocides.
Of course they do, because that intangible symbol of God is the base of the whole social structure. Just like how cash is nothing but paper without the underlying intangible idea of a nation to give an exchange value to it. It doesn't matter that it's artificial, what matters is that it's held up with collective faith to give validity to a set of ideas and values.
Headline asks a question... the answer is No.
It does suggest that the decline has stopped. Maybe also true in other western countries.
It is what I expected. Given stable rates of loss religious belief and non-religious people converting (ignoring conversions between religions) there will be an equilibrium.
It still matter what religion people follow. One of the big changes, especially in the US, has been the growth of evangelical Christianity (often Biblical literalist and right wing) at the expense of traditional big denominations.
…I thought I saw Amongus in the title. I'm going back to bed.
Materialist magician incoming!
Hopefully!
"Recent polling shows no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults"
Betteridge's law strikes again!
Belief in the absurd waxes and wanes. Its probably some kind of neurological or genetic weakness in certain people and just trained in others.
Its hard to imagine a non-neurological basis for the ardent believers, it takes a lot to stick to belief in obvious falsehoods. There have been hundreds of religions throughout history, all of them thought they were the true one. None of them even stand scrutiny to basic arguments, let alone the very high amount of rigor such a supposedly fundamental truth must demand.
The point of a religion is to provide a devoted in-group with a coherent set of values and principles, subsequently fulfilling an individual's social needs of stability and belonging. God and other supernatural concepts are just social communication tools to enable the same, and are not meant to be treated as scientific theorems to prove or disprove.
Your ad-hominem tirade is embarrassingly juvenile.
I have met very few religious people who claim the god and supernatural stuff isn't capital T Truth. They'd be offended if I said religion is just a lifestyle or moral system, some even to the point of violent genocides.
Of course they do, because that intangible symbol of God is the base of the whole social structure. Just like how cash is nothing but paper without the underlying intangible idea of a nation to give an exchange value to it. It doesn't matter that it's artificial, what matters is that it's held up with collective faith to give validity to a set of ideas and values.
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Iran and Afghanistan are nice religious countries. I'd gladly fund your deportation there if you think religion is true.