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Most God-believing Hindus accept the theory of biological evolution.[9][10][11] They either regard the scriptural creation theories as allegories and metaphors, or reconcile these legends with the modern theory of evolution.
spartacus699
Then why are you so defensive? People in denial are always extremely defensive.
I get what the OP is saying. You never hear them trying to dismiss any other religion except Judeo/Christianity, then the "Abrahamic" religion, but have a problem mentioning the word "Islam" as though they don't want to offend Muslims. But it's so easy to do it to Jews and Christians, because we aren't likely to do any more than just argue back.
I don't hear them saying anything against Norse, Mayan, Polynesian, or even Hinduism, even though everyone of those religions have a creation, flood and end time, and each of of them have a teaching of heaven and hell.
Atheism today is a direct product of the wests materialistic civilization.
The reason why its christian ideas that are being attacked in your part of the world, is because it was ONCE a christian land.... But is now under the grip of atheists.
No, it's a direct product of the fact that PEOPLE ARE EDUCATED, and recognize mythology and insupportable nonsense when they smell it, hear it, read about it, see it.
For good or for ill, religion is being diluted and diminished in western societies by the powers that be, because it is in there best interests, not because "people are educated". The vast majority of irreligious people in America are just regular people, not theologians or Christ mythicists.
No, it's a direct product of the fact that PEOPLE ARE EDUCATED, and recognize mythology and insupportable nonsense when they smell it, hear it, read about it, see it.
Hogwash. The USA was NEVER a "Christian land", and will not be in the future.
Kryyptyk
reply to post by spartacus699
Mmm, not so much. I agree that -some- people may identify with that description, but the majority of atheists just came to realize that they didn't mesh with a religion or religions.
I myself was raised in a Christian household and when I was 13 came to the realization that I didn't hold to the beliefs of the church at all.
Different strokes I guess. :p
sk0rpi0n
The open celebration of atheism is mostly a western thing.
sk0rpi0n
In reality, there is NO corelation between being educated and being godless.
I find that higher levels of education lead to lower levels of religious participation later in life. An additional year of education leads to a 4-percentage-point decline in the likelihood that an individual identifies with any religious tradition;
Various studies further suggest that relying more on intuition tends to increase religious beliefs, while analytic, deductive, and more rational thinking decreases religious beliefs.
That's the provocative conclusion of a new review of 63 studies of intelligence and religion that span the past century. The meta-analysis showed that in 53 of the studies, conducted between 1928 to 2012, there was an inverse relation between religiosity -- having religious beliefs, or performing religious rituals -- and intelligence. That is, on average, non-believers scored higher than religious people on intelligence tests.
But of course, comfort yourself by believing otherwise.