I hear this argument a lot, but are we? Are we really hard to herd? We form up a lot, just not FOR atheism. We have yoga studios and book clubs and bike clubs and auto-racing. We join the Sierra Club and the Democratic Party. We have tupperware parties and ladies’ weekends. We inhabit Green Peace and Medecines sans Frontiers and Swifties and the Red Cross.
I think it’s a flaw to disregard all the ways we
do form community, just because it doesn’t say “atheism” on the door.
Because he’s a Christian pretending to be an atheist?
Who is now pretending not to be an atheist.
His official designation is "Truth Seeker". Manages to be both Christian on CARM and atheist on IIDB.
Tom
Is that True, Seeker? You are in the “christians Only” forum at CARM? Are you lying to them or to us?
My concern is that your question is intended to shift attention away from the fact that many of the atheists here fear the implications of their being outnumbered by Christians.
Are you kidding? Atheists have ALWAYS feared the large numbers of rabid and dangerous Christians who harm our lives. They are harmful folk, over the centuries. And they are still fighting to harm us. We understand the implications quite well.
I'm thinking that Christians outnumber atheists because Christians offer immortality while atheists offer no such thing. Do you have any thoughts on that idea?
Your argument is that there are more Christians than Atheists because people want a pixie story really badly? I mean, if that’s how Christians want to protray themselves, as people who are desperate to believe a pixie story. I mean, I guess I can believe that of them.
Tom, is it possible that the fear of hell is so great that more people try to escape that fear via Christian belief than people who "risk hell" as atheists?
Wait, I thought it was immortality. Now it’s fear of punishment? Why the goalpost shift? Wasn’t your previoushypothesis reliable feeling enough?
When you consider the Universe, Christians likely do not outnumber atheists.
Indeed, when you consider the plant earth through its entire history, likely they still don’t.
But how might we explain any "historical coincidence" regarding the relative numbers of Christians and atheists? Are Christians just lucky that they've achieved great numbers?
You’ve been told the answer to this over and over and over again. Christians spent centuries using murder and genocide to increase their relative numbers. How many times do you need to be told?