Click on the chart to go to an interactive version and select a state
It’s no wonder when you have wackos like this group getting the religious press. Who wants to be associated with that?
A Kansas church group that protests at military funerals across the nation filed suit in federal court Friday, claiming a Missouri law banning such picketing infringed on religious freedom and free speech.
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The church and the Rev. Fred Phelps claim God is allowing soldiers, coal miners and others to be killed because the United States tolerates homosexuals.
#9 – Atheism on the decline? That is a real shame.
#12 – Agnostics admit the question is unknowable… Okay… In a universe of infinite possibilities, I suppose, there might be a planet in some distant galaxy that is home to unicorns, dragons, and hobbits. Maybe. I can’t travel (at this point in time) to these distant planets so I should just admit that maybe there are unicorns and dragons and such but it’s unknowable for certain…
Bullshit!
Agnostics straddle a fence on the issue because the lack the intellectual courage of their conviction. This is a binary question. It isn’t “is there a god?” but rather it is “do YOU believe in a god.” and no agnostic believes in a god, if they did, they wouldn’t be agnostics.
There might actually be something like a supreme being in the universe. Anything is possible. But the ones we pray to weren’t revealed to us through any sort of discovery. They are man made and imposed upon us. They are a fiction.
The absence of any kind of measurable, observable, quantifiable, or anyotherable evidence is not proof that there is no god… but it is a giant clue. Faith is the irrationale belief in something that any rational mind would see as amazingly false.
I might seem militant about this issue, but I wasn’t always. I used to think, well, it helps you so i don’t mind what you believe. It hadn’t really occured to me that the laws that govern me would be written by Jesus-freaks and Holy Warrior loonbats… So yes, athiesm is like a religion to me. The right wing theocracy has waged a war on culture. I chose a side.
#18 – Myth, The ACLU is against religion.
Maybe it should be, but it isn’t.
The laws being used against Fred Phelps are unconstitutional and need to be repealled. Which is very unfortunate because it is probably also unconstitutional to enact the law that should have been put in place – the law that allows every greiving family member to beat Fred Phelps into a bloody pulp.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I don’t care if you are conservative, liberal, or anything else. Americans should support the ACLU.
#21 OhForTheLoveOf, your last paragraph hits a very important nail on the head. There was a time when I would never have engaged in religious arguments out of respect for believers. However, their attempts to change our laws based on their claimed religious principles have made virtually every aspect of their religion a legitimate topic of political debate.
If their religion is unsound at its foundation, or if their claims of what their Bible ordains and “entitles” them to do within law and government are not truly supported by their own Bible, then it’s important for their claims to be challenged before they’re reflected in the laws.
I should point out that there are a handful of participants in this forum that I don’t mean to malign in any way, because they regret the hijacking of their faith for often political purposes as much as I do. Cheers.
The study is flawed. There are millions of indians (asian indians) here in US and majority of them are hindus and there is no mention of hinduism even in states like NY, NJ and california where they are in really high numbers.
#24
oops.. not millions but at least 2 million according to census 2000
It took me a minute to realize that the chart was interactive… After that i started clicking around and Washington appears to be the best state for people like myself. The None column outranks all the others, including Catholic (not that I am all that worried about the relatively fun loving catholics).
Doc,
They don’t mention the hindus because chances are that the ones making these polls are Christian and God forbid that the few christians who read realize that there are choices other than the many flavours of christianity.
But Wong… It’s a USA today poll. I thought it was made by journalists. And I thought all journalists were liberals. And I thought all liberals were atheists. And I thought all atheists murder and eat babies. Mmmmmmm baby.
I would have thought that a religion that goes from one member to two would be the fastest growing religion.
RBG
never be answered before the 17th ring. We have a lot of members in our church, but I see we’re not even mentioned in this survey. I also see that the Amish were passed over as well.
Comment by Gary Marks — 7/24/2006 @ 9:06 am
Gary, I am intrigued with you beliefs. Would it be possible to send me some more information, or even better, could I call you?
Señor Fusion, only call if you’re really patient
We’re still in our infancy, theologically speaking, but one of our central principles is the mystical importance of the number 17, so I’m thinking of calling it Church of the Seventh Prime. A cool name could be a real boost for marketing purposes, and without good marketing, all you have is……. well, God.
Peace on Earth, and Good Golly, Miss Molly!
I can’t believe we still argue. I thought we already concluded there is no god in that thread a few months ago.
Come on people. Reality is knocking.
I’m utterly and completely offended.
Nobody mentioned the true religion, Flying Spaghetti Monsterism.
Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him.
What are you people, ON DOPE??
#33, does the FSM answer the phone before the 17th ring? Does he have a catchy name like Church of the Seventh Prime. ?
I’m baffled! Why is the church of spongebob squarepants not on the chart? Who did this thing? These figures can’t possibly be correct.