What do Americans think about different religious groups? Thanks to a Pew study from earlier this year, we have a pretty good idea about what people think of Christians, Muslims, Mormons, Atheists, and more!
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Actually Pew and a few others have done immense research on this. Atheism isn’t growing in any great perceptible way. It’s picked up a few tenths of a percent in the last decade but there is no great flux of atheism coming simply because people who choose to be areligious/non-religious are still spiritual. They tend towards unformed beliefs on an afterlife or a greater power than themselves and thus a large and increasing category of ‘nones’ have developed but all too often nones are equated with atheists by atheists to inflate their own numbers. Nones as a group would almost never agree with atheists on any core value. The trend towards none is perhaps a telling dissatisfaction with the conservative views that the largest religions maintain but have no bearing on the core beliefs of these people.
That being said, when you make a remark about a person’s religion as a ‘myth or fable’ you aren’t fostering respect for that person. I understand the idea of atheism in liberal media circles is welcome and even respected and perhaps demanded but when you throw in an opinion like that for the remaining 96-98% of the population you’re merely offending a core belief. So this is why Atheists even as a known entity struggle to break 50%. They aren’t a deeply held respected religious belief, they’re an ideological one and one that tends to rely on normative responses and presumptions on reality to justify their position.
Well written.
I am an atheist but I also hold on to “habits” I acquired through my early life development as a Catholic, habits such as praying, talking to God, and suggesting to others that when someone has passed, they are “in a better place”. The latter is done mostly out of respect for their feelings.
I know that we are all just living matter set to expire with our consciousness at some point on the timeline. I also know that there is great value in raising kids to believe in a higher power, to adhere to moral standards of the church and to fear the consequence of sin. I often say that the Bible is a collection of fables, but I try to keep that from the ears of believers, because I don’t want what I say to be interpreted as judgment.
Atheists experience as much derogatory venom from believers as they spew out, so neither side is really the better. My wish is that we all allow people to believe what they will, treating each other with respect and kindness, which might put me in the category of Humanist, but I will always consider myself an Atheist,