Religion is unironically a plague that needs to be wiped out.
Religion is unironically a plague that needs to be wiped out
Austin Watson
Michael Harris
*sips soylent bottle*
Luke Scott
only the bad ones like christianity and judaism
Owen Bailey
I remember my atheist phase, thankfully I never said anything embarrassing
Matthew Morris
i'll pray for you tonight, hopefully you can see the love of jesus christ
Carter Sanders
I went through my "maybe religion isn't so bad" atheist phase too but it's becoming increasingly clear that all religion does is keep us in the 20th century. Now I'm back to dabbing on kike worshippers
Adam Harris
>the least religious countries tend to be more prosperous and advanced
>very religious countries are third world shitholes
Jason Wilson
you'll eventually realize religion is a very good political instrument, and it's meant to be used as such
Adrian Diaz
joe swanson
Jaxson Wright
Science Says: Religion Is Good For Your Health
forbes.com
>There is ample reason to believe that faith in a higher power is associated with health, and in a positive way. For example, researchers at the Mayo Clinic concluded, “Most studies have shown that religious involvement and spirituality are associated with better health outcomes, including greater longevity, coping skills, and health-related quality of life (even during terminal illness) and less anxiety, depression, and suicide. Several studies have shown that addressing the spiritual needs of the patient may enhance recovery from illness.
>That said, the lack of knowledge linking religious behaviors and health is fascinating given that health care is deeply rooted in religious institutions, and vice versa. In fact, it was religious organizations that built many of the first hospitals, and clergy (supplementing low church wages) were often practicing physicians and medical providers.
>80% of research on spirituality/religiousness and health focuses on mental health. This is because most associations with faith are related to how one thinks about the world and their role in it. Words that are often associated with religious beliefs include connectedness, hope, optimism, trust and purpose. All of which have been shown to boost mental health. Compassion, forgiveness and gratefulness are also qualities that are strongly associated with individuals who are spiritual and religious. Practicing these qualities is thought to be associated with deceased stress and increased resiliency.
>Interestingly, although religion and spirituality correlate to an external locus of control (God as a higher power in control of our destiny), most research concludes that those who are religious have a strong internal sense of control.
Lincoln Gomez
Religion’s Relationship to Happiness, Civic Engagement and Health Around the World
pewforum.org
>People who are active in religious congregations tend to be happier and more civically engaged than either religiously unaffiliated adults or inactive members of religious groups, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of survey data from the United States and more than two dozen other countries.
>This analysis finds that in the U.S. and many other countries around the world, regular participation in a religious community clearly is linked with higher levels of happiness and civic engagement (specifically, voting in elections and joining community groups or other voluntary organizations).
Gavin Hughes
If you like turmoil and war maybe.
Josiah Ward
Religious Faith and Charitable Giving
www.hoover.org/research/religious-faith-and-charitable-giving
>The differences in charity between secular and religious people are dramatic. Religious people are 25 percentage points more likely than secularists to donate money (91 percent to 66 percent) and 23 points more likely to volunteer time (67 percent to 44 percent)... For example, among those who attend worship services regularly, 92 percent of Protestants give charitably, compared with 91 percent of Catholics, 91 percent of Jews, and 89 percent from other religions.
Less God, Less Giving - Philanthropy Roundtable
Religion and generosity feed each other in fascinating ways
www.philanthropyroundtable.org/philanthropy-magazine/less-god-less-giving
>In study after study, religious practice is the behavioral variable with the strongest and most consistent association with generous giving. And people with religious motivations don’t give just to faith-based causes—they are also much likelier to give to secular causes than the nonreligious.
Giving USA Special Report on Giving to Religion
givingusa.org/just-released-giving-usa-special-report-on-giving-to-religion/
>People who are religiously affiliated are more likely to make a charitable donation of any kind, whether to a religious congregation or to another type of charitable organization. Sixty-two percent of religious households give to charity of any kind, compared with 46 percent of households with no religious affiliation.
>Religiously affiliated households give as much or more to other types of charities as non-religiously affiliated households do.
Robert Edwards
>christards deluxe themselves into thinking they'll see their family and loved ones in heaven after they die
No shit they're happy. They're completely gotten rid of the reality that life is fleeting and there's nothing for us after. It doesn't matter what you believe though, because the eternal void of nothingness awaits us all.
Also, people that aren't happy have no reason to be religious. How can you believe in God when there's suffering all around us?
>MUH PLAN
kys
Ignorance truly is bliss. Cope and seethe about it.
Bentley Martinez
turmoil and war? those are caused for territory and its resources. Religion, ethnicity, nationality, etc are all just ways of grouping "us" and "them"
Christian Gomez
>Is religion important to your daily life?
Costa Rica...78%
Italy...72%
Chile...70%
United States...69%
Austria...55%
Israel...51%
South Korea...43%
Canada...42%
Switzerland...41%
Azerbaijan...39%
Hungary...39%
Latvia...39%
Bulgaria...34%
Cuba...34%
Belarus...34%
Russia...34%
Vietnam...30%
Sweden...17%
China...10%
Bentley Foster
>cope, cope, and more cope
Daniel Martin
Atheism is a fundamentally negative worldview, and for that reason it will never win out in a Darwinian struggle.
Josiah Wood
religion is not the determining factor in what makes a country a shithole.
it's much closer related to how heterogenous and communist a country is.
Julian Wood
Religion is the ultimate and final cope. You're literally unable to come to terms with the fact that we're all insignificant biomatter so you have to literally, not even memewise, COPE by worshipping a dead like on a stick.
Adrian Wright
religion is good for society but I care more about the truth than society's stability
I have mulled over this and found that truth is the only objective thing that I can comfortably use as an anchor for morality
Logan Allen
>Religion is the ultimate and final cope. You're literally unable to come to terms with the fact that we're all insignificant biomatter so you have to literally, not even memewise, COPE by worshipping a dead like on a stick.
Joshua Powell
Atheism is negative, you're not wrong. It's hard to come to terms with your own mortality. That brings negative emotions, I get it.
But the answer isn't to lie to yourself and everyone around you by pretending there's an afterlife.
Nathaniel Butler
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John Lewis
>But the answer isn't to lie to yourself and everyone around you by pretending there's an afterlife.
William Butler
le ran out of arguments fedora time XD
You're done, kike worshipper.
Luke Green
>le ran out of arguments fedora time XD
I posted several studies showing religion is good for society. You've posted ZERO arguments in response, kek. The absolute nerve of you.
>You're done, kike worshipper.
Robert Lopez
Are you by any chance the same Canadian poster who BTFOs horsefuckers?
Ryder Nguyen
why is the only offense against atheism that you dopes can think up "you wear this hat and are ugly"
do you really think that's gonna convert anyone
talk about how religion is required for societal cohesion or something like that, or attack them for not being agnostic, which is more rational
David Thompson
If religion was basses SOLELY on morals, I wouldn't have an issue with it. My issues come from the nonsense mysticism that stems from it, the culture clashing issues it creates (France), and how we have religious institutes that are corrupt as fuck.
Gabriel Jones
I too believe that.
That's nothing more freeing than not believing in religion. Without religion you don't care about afterlife
Without caring about the afterlife, you don't give no shits about what will happen after you're gone. YOLO
William Rivera
>worship a homosexual desert god or you'll be a rootless nihilist contributing to the downfall of society!
There are other religions, you know.
Jose Wood
I did, you never replied with an argument you seething kike cocksucker