New Posts For Thread: The rise of Atheism in the UShttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/29059689/The_rise_of_Atheism_in_the_USHere is an article about he rise of Atheism in the United States. I thuink it is worth reading and discussing...so, here it is.rise-atheism-americaHere is a key paragraph..."If growth continues at the current rate, one in four Americans will professFodaosonThose posters who will say “that’s not what I mean when I use…” when some on uses a dictionary definition.These days I've found myself in the same place, with people telling me what I have to mean by 'Christian',http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/29059689/The_rise_of_Atheism_in_the_US?post_id=518888351#518888351FodaosonThose posters who will say “that’s not what I mean when I use…” when some on uses a dictionary definition.These days I've found myself in the same place, with people telling me what I have to mean by 'Christian',Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:49:42 -0500[/quote]I did not write the above. If you can't get the attributions correct how are we supposed to understand YOUR gibberish? If you cannot figure out how to use the simple quote function, how are we supposed to believe you can understand more complhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/29059689/The_rise_of_Atheism_in_the_US?post_id=518887845#518887845[/quote]I did not write the above. If you can't get the attributions correct how are we supposed to understand YOUR gibberish? If you cannot figure out how to use the simple quote function, how are we supposed to believe you can understand more complSat, 21 Apr 2012 23:56:48 -0500Apr 21, 2012 -- 9:20PM, mountain_man wrote:Who- pronoun ; subjective; Whom-:objective case of Who Those posters who will say “that’s not what I mean when I use…” when some on uses a dictionary definition.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/29059689/The_rise_of_Atheism_in_the_US?post_id=518887471#518887471Apr 21, 2012 -- 9:20PM, mountain_man wrote:Who- pronoun ; subjective; Whom-:objective case of Who Those posters who will say “that’s not what I mean when I use…” when some on uses a dictionary definition.Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:33:00 -0500Anyone that disagrees with him.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/29059689/The_rise_of_Atheism_in_the_US?post_id=518885591#518885591Anyone that disagrees with him.Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:20:02 -0500FodaosonSome poster use their own definition and as such we CAN have no communication because of those posters use of near gibberish .[IMO]Whom do you have in mind?http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/29059689/The_rise_of_Atheism_in_the_US?post_id=518883811#518883811FodaosonSome poster use their own definition and as such we CAN have no communication because of those posters use of near gibberish .[IMO]Whom do you have in mind?Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:27:51 -0500That's the sad part; this is the 21st Century and we're supposed to be an advanced civilization. We should have put all these superstitions behind us long ago.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/29059689/The_rise_of_Atheism_in_the_US?post_id=518880855#518880855That's the sad part; this is the 21st Century and we're supposed to be an advanced civilization. We should have put all these superstitions behind us long ago.Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:37:24 -0500Apparently some believe Atheism to be full of people that don't know what they believe or do not believe so they have to tell them. And for some reason they always get it wrong.Those trying to tell Atheists what Atheism is, or is not, should shut uphttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/29059689/The_rise_of_Atheism_in_the_US?post_id=518874893#518874893Apparently some believe Atheism to be full of people that don't know what they believe or do not believe so they have to tell them. And for some reason they always get it wrong.Those trying to tell Atheists what Atheism is, or is not, should shut upSat, 21 Apr 2012 14:27:28 -0500Apparently some believe Atheism to be full of people that don't know what they believe or do not believe so they have to tell them. And for some reason they always get it wrong.Those trying to tell Atheists what Atheism is, or is not, should shut uphttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/29059689/The_rise_of_Atheism_in_the_US?post_id=518866819#518866819Apparently some believe Atheism to be full of people that don't know what they believe or do not believe so they have to tell them. And for some reason they always get it wrong.Those trying to tell Atheists what Atheism is, or is not, should shut upSat, 21 Apr 2012 10:24:26 -0500What that comment shows is that you don't understand.Atheists are part of, and involved in, the larger community of humanity.You may use proper English but the concepts expressed are not quite right. They show quite a bias and rarely coincide with rehttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/29059689/The_rise_of_Atheism_in_the_US?post_id=518866683#518866683What that comment shows is that you don't understand.Atheists are part of, and involved in, the larger community of humanity.You may use proper English but the concepts expressed are not quite right. They show quite a bias and rarely coincide with reSat, 21 Apr 2012 10:20:45 -0500Atheists have a strong community, it just doesn't meet in a church. It meets on university campuses, concert halls, coffee houses, on line, sometimes on the streets. The scary part is most of us have our elected officials on speed dial, and when anhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/29059689/The_rise_of_Atheism_in_the_US?post_id=518856061#518856061Atheists have a strong community, it just doesn't meet in a church. It meets on university campuses, concert halls, coffee houses, on line, sometimes on the streets. The scary part is most of us have our elected officials on speed dial, and when anSat, 21 Apr 2012 03:49:42 -0500