Atheist Alert!

The atheists are coming! The atheists are coming!  But no need to bolt your doors and lock your kids in the closet, for verily, rumors of atheist immorality are greatly...fabricated.

The event in Washington D.C. is being touted as a woodstock for atheists, and what a healthy event , at least in theory, it is. This is the most overlooked group against which intolerance has been systematically directed.

It may be that the United States is the most strongly christian country in the world, notwithstanding the fact that adherants of thousands of religions live in america. Throughout Europe and the world in general membership in the christian church is dwindling; the catholic pedophile-priesthood controversy cannot be helping membership in latin america.

There are strong signs that christianity is disappearing, though it may never disappear entirely. Over the several thousand year history of humanity, many religions have evolved into being , evolved and grown for thousands of years, and then slowly evolved out of existence. This seems to be the normal pattern. Religions, like whole civilizations, seem to be mortal.

Atheism, meanwhile, is on the rise, perhaps nurtured by the overwhelimng technological world in which we live, which is predicated on science, of course, rather than religion.Perhaps we are entering the "age of reason", or perhaps it started in the eigtheenth century, and is ongoing and growing.. 

Religiosity seems to be a fundamental human need. It is possible that humanity will become so well educated scientifically that religiosity will no longer be a fundamental need, or that science itself will become the new religion, serving this unremovable need?

For right now christianity and islam remain powerful forces in the world, and they are both more hostile to atheists than they are to homosexuals, and that's goin' some. This is the reason for the atheist rally in DC: to damand equality and respect.

Perhaps some forms of religiosity are better than others. If anything, there is a good deal of evidence that atheists are superior, intellectually, attitudinally, behavorially. Atheists tend not to condemn others who differ from themselves, tend to be more tolerant, which arguably is a superior behavioral trait. Let's just call everybody of all faiths equal, and split the difference.

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