Religion Dying In America?

[SecularMotion]

[RAM49]

1. Science... is not a buffet!

The verb form of 'ignorance'... is 'ignore'

[another_liberal]

2. God I hope so!

(pun intended)

[on point]

3. More positive title: is wisdom growing in America?

As ignorance brought on religious none sense dies off?

[heaven05]

4. I truly do hope so

[niyad]

5. unfortunately, given what we are seeing on the legislative front, that does not appear to be true.

[starroute]

6. When religion redefines itself as political power, it's already dead

This is also the problem with Israel wanting to be recognized as "the Jewish state." There's no better way to kill off Judaism than to redefine it as a nationality.

[TxVietVet]

13. If Israel is recognized as "the Jewish state", can the US stop making welfare payments to them?

[awoke_in_2003]

20. Yep, and looking at the people around me...

I don't see it going anywhere, either.

[Quixote1818]

7. The internet and social media have made it easier to point out the major flaws in organized religion

Twenty years ago, unless your read and researched free thought you would not know there were thing like slavery and rape in the bible. Social media makes it really easy to bring these major flaws into the light. The internet is killing religion because facts are shoved in peoples faces every day.

[awoke_in_2003]

21. Where abouts do you live?

I know down here in the babble belt, you can put irrefutable proof in front of these people and they still won't believe because the babble doesn't say so. Hell, a legislator in one of these dumb states said evolution shouldn't be taught, because it wasn't in the babble. Of course, algebra isn't in it, either.

[amuse bouche]

16. Yikes

Sounds like mental illness

[SoapBox]

9. I'm hoping!

[valerief]

10. The Ruling Class will never relinquish their tool of religion. nt

[DeSwiss]

19. Which is EXACTLY WHY.......

...it will be taken away.

- How? By doing absolutely NOTHING.

[roguevalley]

11. actually, I think its becoming what it was supposed to be all along. A rise of

spirituality and a decrease in dogmatic mind think.

[DeSwiss]

18. +1000

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. See what happens when religion becomes more about money and ignorance,....

....than helping the poor and wisdom?

[TxVietVet]

14. Fear, guilt and shame.

The pillars of religion. Add hatred of other religions to that also.

[hrmjustin]

15. I hope not.

[DeSwiss]

17. Cenk fails to take into account......

...that the reason (better education and higher intelligence levels than in the past) for this increase in non-believers of religion, is the same reason why those same people don't fall for the existing political system anymore as a practical means for solving mankind's problems either. He seems to see this increased secular awareness only within the rubric of political power and how its reconfiguration can be used to achieve goals more lofty than the other guy's goals.

Newton said it best: ''Est enim omnis actio et reactio æquales et. ''

K&R