My country is becoming more non-religious every single day HELP

Depends on the region but yeah that retarded shit is alive and well here.

Do people there really go to church every week for sermon and read the bible or do they just use it as a community center? Do they just wear crosses, put quotation bumper stickers om their trucks and go to church once every full moon while still trying to preach to every athiest they can? Maybe its still alive and kicking in the south.

I would like to know this too

import more lebos and greeks

Import muzzlims. Problem solved

I grew up in Alabama. A lot of the religion there is definitely very sincere, but there is also a TON of disingenuous virtue signaling. It's kind of hard to explain.

begome GADOLIC!

Churches in the US at a local level are still most often used as a place to gather as a community and organize charity.

However corporations and the government are slowly destroying them much as they have done to local businesses.

How mentally ill does a person have to be to want to see his country become less secular? If you hate modernity that much, go bush.

good

Americans are pagans that worship the founding fathers not Jesus.

>religious=gud
>non-religious=bad
I don't understand why westerners think this.

Thankfully most don't.
Unfortunately some of the ones who control military forces do.

But thats a good thing user

It depends entirely on what region and race you're talking about. The Deep South evangelists take it very seriously, as do most of the black baptists spread out around the country. Those are the types of people who will say "have a blessed day", quote scripture, constantly thank god, etc. Mormons also tend to be pretty serious, but there's a lot of social pressure involved there and they don't really have a choice.

The Catholics (mostly hispanics, irish, and italians) tend to be more casual about it. They might wear crosses or even in the case of a lot of mexicans have a tattoo but it's not a huge part of their lives except on holidays. Your typical "mainstream protestant" (Episcopalian, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, etc.) barely qualifies as religious at all. Never attending church, probably never read more than a couple verses out of the bible, rarely if ever prays, etc.

The religious minorities (jews and muslims) are usually either so casual that they're essentially atheists or so hardcore that it's a bit disturbing.

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I don't understand what goes on behind that mindset.
Some people assume that a country will turn into a cultureless, lawless shithole the more non-believers are in it, while this is far from the case. Shitty people will be shitty people, whether they're religious or not, so it doesn't matter in the end.

Many fundamentalists here genuinely believe that you can't be a good person without religion.

Religious people are happier by any metric.

>I don't understand what goes on behind that mindset.
Open a bible and you'll get some idea. As for why, well, conditioning. A lot of people are bombarded with this shit from birth and have to kind of break their minds a bit to "leave the faith", so to speak. You can see similar thought patterns with people who used to be religious but stopped believing. They'll leave behind the religious dogma but often don't really change their whole approach to the world and end up kind of getting religious about things that aren't religious. You know how American skeptics, etc. are often memed about being religious themselves? In a way it's kind of accurate in that these previously religious fundamentalists have replaced church with the idea and various personalities pertaining to popular science but often it a weird kind of way which isn't really scientific, if you get what I mean.
It's really hard to change how people have basically been molded how to think.

What does this statement mean?

You should be glad.

98% of people here are religious and most of them are dumb as fuck

some religions are better than others of course, but the sooner we can leave this shit behind the better

inb4 fedora tipping

*dibs fedoga*

There's a difference between being immoral and being amoral. "Feeling it", what most atheists end up proposing as an alternative, is not being moral. One needs a code, we're obviously too biased to come up with it on the fly, specially when we're involved. Religion offers that code plus weekly classes.

It means people have been trying to measure happiness for the last 60 years and religious people always beat atheists scores, so even if you're a hedonists who only believes in terrenal happiness you lose.

>how to stop this
For what

>people are growing up and not talking to their imaginary friends anymore
>people aren't reading rules passed down by illiterate savages 3000 years ago anymore
>HELP

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t. virgencito

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God is dead and from the start he was nothing more than a cultural construct.

Enjoy the new times, maybe we'll get something more interesting than old religions.

I have a vague idea of what you're talking about, and while it's really rare over here, I've seen this phenomenon.
It's better off for them to stay religious, as it teaches humility, among other good qualities which would be good for society - is that what you're trying to say? I think I understand that.
And now, I apologize for abruptly moving the goalpost.
Still, I don't think the people in any European would care if their to-be president is religious or not. In contrast, I've heard that in the US, while not forbidden by law, a non-believing president is unelectable and will lose.
This has always confused me - why does the irreligion of a president bother people? Can't they take a good look at them, judge their qualities and merit, instead of going "oh, he doesn't believe in God" and voting for somebody else.

Why would you want to stop the spread of common sense and the reduction of self serving delusion?

>One needs a code, we're obviously too biased to come up with it on the fly
>Religion offers that code

But it's a code that people came up with on the fly. Why is the personal moral code of Mohammad or Joseph Smith more valid than my own?

Which of the Ten Commandments that are actually worth following would you not follow without them being given to you by religion?
>Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me
>Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
>Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain
>Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy
Literally worthless
>Honor thy father and thy mother
A natural instinct in every culture. Sometimes it's not worth following (if you have shitty parents, for example)
>Thou shalt not kill
>Thou shalt no commit adultery
>Thou shalt not steal
>Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor (lie about them)
Natural instincts based on self-preservation and altruism. Even many animals won't kill or steal from each other.
>Thou shalt not covet
Worthless and anti-capitalist.

Just go and have a look on Trump's tweeter and see how nuts american evangelists are. They are almost as defensive and agressive as muslim extremists.

>>Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy
>Literally worthless
>>Thou shalt not covet
>Worthless and anti-capitalist.
corporate cuck

Religious people are gay cunts. Who gives a fuck. Just enjoy life.

Trump is not an evangelist. He just hates mexicans and muslims.

Hourly wages makes it pointless for employers to want employees to work 7 days a week. Employees with 2 or 3 days off in a row have much higher productivity and higher retention.

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

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Christianity brought us where we are. It's what ties us to Rome and Greece. If you think you've outgrown it that's fine, but I'm yet to see an alternative. Modern fedoraist can only censor without proposing, at least Voltaire and Marx had something to fill the gap they were creating. By removing it from your life and society you're taking a bigger leap of faith than believers, like the madmen I just mentioned.
No, they're collective works and more importantly they're time-tested and have evolved (at least the interpretation and traditions attached) with European history.

I was talking about his followers

Christianity also hid and destroyed a lot of Rome and Greece thinking, while stagnating on the pieces it felt were acceptable, preventing further improvements. I'm not going to go full fedoralord "Christian Dark Ages" because the church did have some good function in keeping some of the Greek/Roman philosophies around, but it wasn't as good as it could have been either, due to the religious dogma.

Pray to your god for help that always works.

God only helps those who help themselves.

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>God works in mysterious ways!

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>child gets sick with leukemia
>pray for God's help

>child survives through the miracles of modern medicine
>IT WAS GOD'S PLAN ALL ALONG

>child dies despite medical intervention
>God needed another angel
God literally can't lose with these retards