Reply To: Political Acceptance of Atheism

[SteveInCO]

@guest1, I don’t disagree whit that conclusion. We see atheism, or at least not being in a church, on the rise in the US. The young in particular have got to be extremely worrisome to Xian leaders (they might have to get off their fucking sanctimonious asses and get real jobs instead of being bloodsucking parasites–wait, did I say that out loud?) and I expect a lot of proselytization effort aimed at them.

Ironically I think it’s likely many rejected religion because of the obvious injustices of the anti LGBT stance that US religions happen to have. If that’s true a reformed, not-so-obviously-anti-LGBT version of Xianity could arise and “capture” many of these people.

The non-LGBT side of the phenomenon comes in with the rise of the New Atheists, and that in turn has at least some of its power in the events of 9/11. Despite the attempts of our then-leadership to dissasociate that act from its religious motives (and many on the left do so as well, to Sam Harris’s [among other’s] recurring befuddlement), many people have got to understand the hazard of dogmatic adherence to an ancient text, who did not before.