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In reply to the discussion: Atheism Might Not Be As Popular As You Think: The Religious Revolution in the US [View all]Speck Tater
(10,618 posts)29. I think there is more indifference than atheism
The people I know who don't go to church (which is almost all of them) don't have any strong feelings either way. They just don't care.
They are not atheists, they are indifferent to religion. Many still claim some sort of unfocused or unspecified semi-belief in some un-named something or other that may or may not be lurking in some "other" non-physical or "spiritual" realm.
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Atheism Might Not Be As Popular As You Think: The Religious Revolution in the US [View all]
rug
Aug 2012
OP
It's true that an unbiased interpretation of the chart refutes the text, but what if
dimbear
Aug 2012
#44
Would not matter a tinker's cuss if there were only one atheist or one theist in the world
dmallind
Aug 2012
#3
The "support" for the stats being decieving comes from a catholic apologist site.
cleanhippie
Aug 2012
#5
Certainly moreso than your original comments in the OP. Oh yeah, you didn't make any.
cleanhippie
Aug 2012
#18
I have said for some time that what SOME people "don't believe" in is what they are being told
patrice
Aug 2012
#26
Interesting. Can you explain further what you mean about ancient awarenesses/cognitions?
cbayer
Aug 2012
#27
I consider anything on this topic ONLY a starting point; yes, Jung, primarily, but we should
patrice
Aug 2012
#33
Other than some reading of Jung, I am unfamiliar with much of what you are discussing.
cbayer
Aug 2012
#35
Jung is central, because of his presentation of what amounts to "species memory", usually known
patrice
Aug 2012
#38
If I can do it, you can do it. I'm not that "smart". I just know HOW to use what I do have.
patrice
Aug 2012
#41
Oh! another good book is Warren A. Shibles "Metaphor: An Annotated Bibliography" it may be
patrice
Aug 2012
#40