I don't know if there is a new movement of some sort in regards to removing, forbidding, or erasing religion from society but to me it all appears simply as communism wearing a new dress.
This has to be one of the most painfully stunted posts I've seen here yet. A new movement?!?! No, but there is a call to reason, saying "enough is enough" to the religious around the world who force their religious views into politics and other people's lives. You used the word "forbidding", and this is the most jaw-dropping statement, considering that there is no forbidding going on at all, merely dialogue, conversation and debate. I don't mean to offend anyone by saying this, but do maintain that god-belief is an infantile place to park the mind, and so it is no surprise that this sort of reaction you've displayed parallels a child who has his lollypop or security blanket taken away. It may indeed be comforting holding the belief that there's some sort of father figure in the sky who's looking after you, but at some point in life we all need to grow up and abandon such impoverished ideas.
I see this essentially as a political fight more then a discussion of the existence of god.
Wha? Hello kettle, this is the pot, you're black. It is the religious who have wormed their way into politics, and I fail to see how all of the various comments by people on this thread from all over the world is "politics", except for the hope where it helps remove religion
from politics, as it rightfully should.
In my opinion all these 'modern' assertions that science is gaining so much ground that anyone who considers a higher power or creator or any other meta-physical entity or belief should be labeled insane or a lunatic is completely unwarranted and unwanted by a vast majority of the United States.
Whassat? "should be labeled insane or a lunatic"??? Where do you get this nonsense from? And what is the point of referring to the US? It should be expected that the vast majority of the US claims "offence" when their god beliefs are challenged, simply because the mojority of them have god belief. What do you expect? Many of it's population lack a decent education and are shockingly ignorant of anything outside of it's borders. So what's your point? It's like saying: "The vast majority of Iran feels that debunking Islam is unwarranted and unwanted."
There's a reason there are books published like
this, and
this. It's because some people care about our future.
To infer that a believer of god should be dismissed and not allowed participation in maters of importance to the society should be insulting to everyone.
OMG. The irony. Just look at how the
opposite is true in the US. One could not get elected without proclaiming belief in god - and it must be the Abrahamic god too - you know, the one who favours the US.
Check
this out. I cried watching this.
If science leads to enough fact to make the idea of god ridiculous or unappealing to the populous, then the society will simply stop believing on their own.
When you consider that it is the indoctrination of the unformed minds of children that keeps religous obserdities alive, it doesn't get dropped that easily. And when you consider the enormous investment level that one has in their beliefs, the social/family/friend pressure is just too great for most. Add to that the enormous sense of belonging and community that one gets from church life, this too is too cherished for most to have threatened. There are though many now who are waking up from the stupor of false beliefs and abandoning them in favour of a rational, naturalistic world view. I know I did, and looking back, it appears like I was living in a dreamland. Twas comforting, just not
true, and I care more about what's true.
There is no need for persecution or ridicule as it most certainly does more harm then good to the whole.
Persecution?!?!? Give me a break. You've obviously been coddled in the craddle of comfy modern day life for so long, you have no idea what persecution is. The debunking of false beliefs by text or conversation is not persecution, it is an overdue call to reason.
Please watch.
