New study shows 1/3 of all american adults under 30 are athiest

[NoMayo15]

I bet you that many of these atheists do have a personal connection with God and don't need to be in a church/ temple to worship him.

Whoa, slow down there buddy. I was with you on people feeling disenfranchised from organized religion, but this sentence makes absolutely no sense.

Now, someone might say they have a personal connection with nature or the universe, in which I would say ... sure, we all do, I suppose. But barring some sort of pantheistic definition, there are no "gods" to have personal connections with (to atheists).

Most of these atheists/agnostics come from a Christian background

Yeah, because most posters live in North America, which is culturally Christian for the most part.

Most people who are educated leave religion not because of their love of money, or wickedness, or arrogance. Personally, once I discovered how many religions there were, and how my own was no more justifiable than most others (or that belief is largely based on blind faith (*edit* faith, and incredulity of science )), I could no longer adhere to that religion, and believe it was the one true one. And then once I realized that all religions are basically fairy tales that haven't be demonstrated to likely be true, agnosticism/atheism is the remainder.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

The more people go to college and travel the world, the less religious the populace gets.

Totally not true

 

[Tom]

technology

it was easy to drink the kool aid religions gave folks decades ago but it's alot harder now that people are more intelligent and have information at their fingertips

 

[nalej]

technology

it was easy to drink the kool aid religions gave folks decades ago but it's alot harder now that people are more intelligent and have information at their fingertips

the thing is for me even as a kid and my aunt took me to church, I questioned the whole notion. like it makes absolutely no common sense. add to that, the stuff you do in church, listening to some guy talk forever and singing silly songs.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

the thing is for me even as a kid and my aunt took me to church, I questioned the whole notion. like it makes absolutely no common sense. add to that, the stuff you do in church, listening to some guy talk forever and singing silly songs.

Those songs are pretty good. Get me in the mood for jiving, and sometimes shucking, friend. Maybe you were just a bad little boy who became a man who only for demonic songs, friend.

 

[kingofnyc]