Don't equate us scientific thinkers with commies.
I don't believe god will go away completely either. People are too superstitious, wishful thinking and us atheists can't prove god doesn't exist.
But no doubt the more science we learn, the less likely a god exists. When you understand how old and big the universe is, you sort of realize how silly man made religion is. Completely unnecessary. I know it makes you feel good and I know you don't want to go to hell for doubting so I/we know it is difficult for you to grasp.
Don't label us with Marx and Lenin. It makes you sound stupid. They had wacky political ideologies. They had AN AGENDA. Us Atheists just want reason and logic to prevail. For example we are destroying this planet because our citizens are greedy stupid theists. No coincidence. And every technological advancement including cures have come from science. Stop with the commy talk you dumb old brainwashed fart. LOL.
Follow these rules: Test ideas by experiments and observations. Build on those ideas that pass the test. Reject the ones that fail. Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything.
If you do this you will start experiencing cognitive dissonance.
Actually there is little difference between the scientific materialism of the Commies and that of modern Liberal Progressive Atheists so if that is the way you want to differentiate yourself you fail. The main differences are that Commies would kill Christians for their faith while your strategy appears to be an attempt at ridicule and marginalisation. Also the Commies did not have a clue about economics and were fraudulent and corrupt while most modern Liberal Progressive atheists are better behaved when it comes to money. The abortion rate was higher among Commie atheists than Liberal Progressive atheists ironically. The biggest difference today with the Liberal Progressive Atheists is sexual perversion. The Commies would put queers to death while you play happy families with gay marriages.
Russians are commies still right? Are they killing Christians today? Is there a Russian Holocust going on right now against Christians? Then shut the fuck up.
Russians are not commies now. You appear to have missed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes that followed.
So the only commies are liberal Americans now? You guys are so stupid.
Hey, every theist should be required to watch the Cosmos. Not just the new one but the old one too. It explains everything a person needs to know in order to realize that there is no god. Christians say, "you have to read the bible before you can say you don't believe". The truth is, you need to watch the Cosmos before you read the bible because it explains the history of man and religion. When you know the history you know that they made up god AND they use god to hold us back.
Did you know 2500 years ago the Greeks figured out that the earth is not the center of the universe? We aren't even at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. They figured out that all the stars were other suns. They were not Neptune, Venus, Zeus, Hercules, etc. That's what primitive ancient superstitious man believed. The Greeks discovered science. So why/how did all this knowledge disappear? The Mystics, Religious and Superstitious squashed all that knowledge. Then later these stupid humans decided that there is only one god not many. Instead of realizing there is no god, they went from many gods to 1. The Jews, Christians & Muslims would rule for the next 2000 years.
Every time a society is free to think, it never goes well for god. In a free society like ancient Greece or America today, we see science is flourishing because we/they are/were free to think.
And today religion can't squash free thinking and science, so they have tried to embrace science and pretend that they didn't hold us back intellectually for thousands of years.
Religion is an evil thing. It is a lie. I don't care what charitable works it does. That's like saying a slave master is good because he feeds his slaves once a day. BFD. Imagine where we would be today without religion. Instead of just now reaching Mars, maybe we would have already colonized Mars. But no. Instead we have an arms race with Russia for 50 years. We built how many nuclear bombs?
I have very little confidence in the human race. Until I see it shed the delusions of religion that is.
You missed the point - twice in fact!
There is no difference between a modern American atheist and a Commie when it comes to the scientific materialism you swear by. The difference has to do with Commies being murderers and modern Liberals sexual perverts.
The Cosmos is indeed an amazing thing. Its patterns and power and beauty point to an Intelligent and powerful artist.
The Christian monasteries were what preserved knowledge through the dark ages after the barbarian pagan invasions had destroyed so much. It was medieval European Christendom that laid the foundations for the modern scientific enterprise not least with the assumption that the Cosmos is intelligible because it has an intelligent Designer. We have surpassed the ancient Greeks in every way.
I agree that the building of a space faring civilisation would be a better way to spend resources than on futile wars. But the Cold War was not won by Star Fleet but rather by people waking up to the evil that was atheistic Communism and by a steadfast determination by leaders like the pope, Reagan and Thatcher to oppose it.
I don't know what scientific materialism means. All I know is I study the history of man and the more I learn about how we came up with the character god, the more I realize it isn't true AND the more I realize it is bad for us. "THEY" use it to keep the masses down. And it has held us back big time. One great example is hockey great Gordy Howe had to fly to California to get stem cells he could not get in Michigan. Why can't the procedure be done in Michigan? The answer is religion. People think a stem cell is too valuable to experiment on. Why? Because of their stupid religious beliefs.
And the more I learn about the Cosmos, the more absurd religion sounds to me. We now know there are millions of stars in our Milky Way system and millions of planets and moons circling those stars. And that's just the Milky Way. There are millions of other galaxies in the universe. The universe is teaming with life. We're just too small to find it or get to it. It'd take us forever just to get to the next closest star. So just because we're the only life we know of so far, doesn't mean anything. Who tells us this? Atheist scientists like Carl Sagan.
If you have watched the old and new Cosmos and still believe in God, it is only because you want to believe something despite the evidence. Wishful thinking. Just know the idea itself is holding mankind back and that ignorance will probably be what does us in. Jesus isn't coming back but great floods are because of Global Warming, not gay butt sex.