Is the popularity of the Atheist revival starting to wane after its resurgence in the wake of 911?

Question

Although polls place atheists at 1% in the UK or approx... 600K of the 60,000,000 in the UK and 00.6% in the US approx. 1,980K of the 330,000,000 Americans and very few of these actually belong to any organized form of atheist clubs.

Atheists in the US

American Humanist Association
The largest and oldest of the atheist organization has a membership of 6000 + members in the US pop. 330,000,000 with over 100 chapters in the US averaging 60 member per chapter. The membership fees for the Ambassador's Club is $5000.00

Freedom from Religion Foundation
Claims over 100 Chapters and presumably less than 6000 members. See. AHA above

Council for Secular Humanism

Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI)
Fellows of CSI include prominent atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Steven Weinberg.

American Atheists Inc.
Whose rise to fame comes on the heels of the colorful use of the words exterminate and fundamentalists in the same sentence. The blog on the A.A. web site (Not to be confused with Alcoholics Anonymous) has consequently been removed amid claims of death threats and FBI intervention and a disclaimer issued stating that the blog did not threaten to exterminate any “living” persons. A lifetime Platinum membership can be yours for a mere $12,000.00 US, yes that’s Twelve Thousand US Dollars.


Atheists in Great Britain

To a large extent these organizations share the same distinguished supporters, including the prominent New Atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens.

The British Humanist Association
Membership stood at 5138 in the UK pop. 60,000,000, Richard Dawkins, A.C.Grayling and Lewis Wolpert among their distinguished supporters, and Dawkins and Wolpert currently serve as vice - presidents of the organization.

The Rationalist Association
The influential American atheist Paul Kurz currently serves as one of the vice presidents of the Association, and they also include Atkins, Dawkins, Grayling, Hitchens and Wolpert among their honorary associates.

The National Secular Society
The NSS include among their honorary associates who work and speak on their behalf prominent British atheists such as Peter Atkins, Richard Dawkins, A.C.Grayling and Christopher Hitchens.

Source:
Cambridge University

Answer 1

most people in the UK call themselves christian because they were baptised as a baby.



most people in the UK treat church as nothing more than a social event.



most people in the UK don't even give religion a second thought.



i'm english so i would know.

Answer 2

Many have take to the streets via the Internet superhighway with their message of hopelessness and despair. Some have gone undercover to prevent religious persecution.

Religion is the opiate of the oppressed but without opium many people would be out of work and compete for jobs at McDonalds, Hardies and Wal Marts . What would college graduates do? Drug cartels would be competing for jobs at Starbucks. Some of them realize this and simply do not want to compete for jobs when pastors, church secretary's and music directors lose their jobs and are competing against atheists.

There needs to be another huge religious fax pas like the Inquisition for atheism to get a real shot in the arm. Some atheist boy needs to be forced to sing O Holy Night for choral practice.

Dexter needs to kill both those Christians on the show and this might make for a few more memberships. Some Christian might molest Harrison and this might really spin things out of control. True Blood needs more anti fang Christian zealot characters because let's face it , things are getting a little stale.

Yes , and agnostics are simply not doing their part.Where are their books, tapes and dvds? Where are their biting insightful you tubes declaring that they simply do not know?

The battle can only be won when we are willing to fight for what we do not believe in!

Answer 3

-Polls practice that the ranks of atheists are transforming into. the yankee religious id Survey, a considerable study released final month, got here across that people who claimed “no faith” have been the only demographic team that grew in all 50 states interior the final 18 years. Nationally, the “nones” interior the inhabitants almost doubled, to fifteen p.c. in 2008 from 8 p.c. in 1990. In South Carolina, they greater beneficial than tripled, to ten p.c. from 3 p.c..- -In a 2008 Gallup survey, 15 p.c. of people claimed no faith in any respect. that's up from in hassle-free terms 8% in 1990. that's almost a doubling in decrease than 2 many years. that's dazzling improve! in actuality, the "non-religious" now outnumber all religious businesses contained in america different than the Catholics and the Baptists.- Telling lies for jeezus is undesirable(tm).

Answer 4

"Although polls place atheists at 1% in the UK or approx... 600K of the 60,000,000 in the UK and 00.6% in the US approx. 1,980K of the 330,000,000 Americans and very few of these actually belong to any organized form of atheist clubs."



This is complete bullsh*t, by the way. A quick google search will prove that, apart from the last bit perhaps.

Answer 5

Source:

Cambridge University



Cambridge publish a LOT of material, it's unacceptable to cite an entire university campus' output as your source.



Citations are supposed to uniquely identify an individual piece of written work, and in lengthy works (more than a few pages), it is also considered unacceptable to exclude exact page numbers or equivalent when citing specific sub-parts of the work (such as individual statistics).

Answer 6

Disclaimer: The content of Ray Balthazar's rant is entirely fictional, and he knows it.

Answer 7

atheism is a joke