Imagine If All Atheists Left America

[oil&gas]

An atheist U.S. president is more unlikely than an unmarried, gay, female and
black one in the foreseeable future IMO. If by chance a politician who doesn't believe
in God stands any chance of getting elected he would be too smart to commit political
suicide by openly declaring there is no god. Surely saying 'so help me god' at the end
of the presidential oath should be no big deal for any politically suave atheist.

 

[rhuarc29]

'IF' true, I'd like to see the causality between those points and religion. I wonder how CM's research on Buddhism coming along. I know of some difference divorce number from survey to survey. It also varies between religions, as much t do with the stigma of splitting inside the particular community, ie the RC rate is a 1/3 less than Baptist. Most of the number are really close the margin of error. How many of the atheist are cohabiting and just split, when things get done, no divorce to record. Considering single digit number of atheist in the US, it wouldn't take much to skew the number. Many of the highest rates of divorce in industrialized country has a strong correlation with a strong welfare system, hmmmm.

I suspect the divorce rate is a much more complicated story than just religion.

Oh, I agree. I imagine the creators of this video used some imaginative methods to skew stats in such a way as to prove their point. Seems everyone is doing that these days, so why not jump on the bandwagon?

Sheesh, no one has any morals anymore. Must be the decrease of faith in religious doctrines :biggrin1: