Do you guys agree? Less young people believe in God and the afterlife. Maybe it has to do with the internet? It's easier to look up differing viewpoints. In my case, I've traveled and lived in SE Asia. Buddhism prevails there. I think when you travel, your views start to shift and you start questioning everything. You start to realize that parental/social conditioning plays a HUGE role on whether or not you believe that God exist.
What do you guys think?
From what I've gathered, yes that seems to be the case. Doubt it, although I'm sure its played a role. Certainly it is easier to find a lot more information. But as we're seeing with politics, it can cause things to go the opposite direction where people not knowing how to think for themselves and armed with just enough knowledge to be dangerous, reach the wrong conclusions about a wide variety of topics. Definitely travel would make you aware of a lot more views and ways of living. It definitely does, and that's exactly what it is. Its conditioning. That's always been the intent of it (its literally what they intended to set out and do is create a framework that they argued was better conditioning than others). And there have been times when that turned out to be a positive. Of course it was generally a positive in spite of itself and out of dumb luck more than that it actually knew what was going on, which we later found out. And yet, we have people still trying to teach the exact same stupid things from back then (and while some are obviously positive - don't murder, etc, plenty of the rest isn't - beating slaves, killing women and gay people, etc). The Bible desperately needs an update. And it desperately needs historic context (for instance, Armageddon likely already happened, not being a prophecy but rather was a hyperbolic account of a catastrophic battle that happened back then, and same with the Great Flood - it likely was crazy fairly localized event that got extrapolated into more than it was, deliberately so, to build a mythology that laid the foundation for the system that would be used to indoctrinate).
The higher educated a population becomes, the less religious a population becomes.
I'd somewhat disagree. There's lots of evidence of highly educated otherwise successful people buying religious horseshit, of all kinds (there were cults that were basically only made up of very educated and successful people, Order of the Solar Temple I think was basically only successful and educated persons, and there's been a bunch of others like Aum Shinrikyo that went out of their way to deliberately target educated persons). Education can indoctrinate you the same as anything else. No that's not John Connor's libertarian dumb shit philosophy, by that I mean, there's lots of people that learn things in the exact same way that indoctrination works. They never really learned to think for themselves, they just learned how to learn by the system. That actually works quite well (and there's positives from it) but there's definitely downsides.
Take for instance you seem to be at least somewhat educated. And yet you believe that the white supremacist dog whistling of the OK sign started with 4Chan because you learned to look at an image that showed 4Chan doing that. Unfortunately you didn't bother to look
any beyond that, when certain people in the "alt-right" had been doing that for years. They weren't doing it as the made up "White Power" nonsense that 4Chan made the graphics trying to claim (which has been repeatedly told to you that this has never been about the typically lame childish 4Chan stupidity), as that was known for some time to be them making that part up, but sadly, as usual, 4Chan didn't create something, they just ripped it off and then tried to add shock value, but in this instance they really couldn't even do that, and rather they just helped white supremacists spread their messaging. The fact is, 4Chan still spread white supremacist rhetoric (and even did so intentionally). And then you wonder why no matter how you try to spin that situation, it still was absolutely about white supremacist ideology. You just chose to claim that it was somehow better because 4Chan's role in it was "for the lulz" while ignoring that actually perfectly aligns with actual white supremacists. I can't wait for you to try and claim the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery though. Considering your general lack of knowledge, lack of cognitive ability to rationally look at things, and willingness to become a frothing moron about every single subject you ever approach, should provide some next level comedy. I do enjoy your clown routine.
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If you look, basically the
only thing you got right is that 4Chan intentionally spread that (but how they did of course you've been quite wrong about, and have ignored that so that you can keep believing it was "just trolling"). It started before 4Chan did it (in fact that's where they got the idea from, as I've told you, there are actual white supremacists that use 4Chan's gaggle of morons to spread their shit, but apparently somehow you can't seem to reason out that a group that knowingly spreads white supremacist shit for shock value might just be exploited by the actual white supremacists themselves). The media actually reported on it being "fake" (in the sense you seem stuck on discussing this) when the 4Chan link was made (which that turned out to be wrong in that,
4Chan didn't start it, so they turned out to be right in claiming that the right wingers flashing it were deliberately doing it as a white supremacist dog whistle, while idiots like you provided cover for them to claim they were just joking about the white supremacist shit, even after it was shown that they interact with such groups/people regularly). And, they kept reporting on how it was hard right people who just happen to keep getting linked to white supremacist groups that liked flashing it after that (effectively making it no longer fake in the sense you try to keep claiming, which again has repeatedly been shown to you while you just keep screaming about 4Chan). Kinda like how a lot of them have also done the Sig Heil salute. And then useful idiots like you decided you'd wade and an shit all over the place, providing cover for racists to make their shit more commonly accepted. Good job, you've been exactly the same type of idiots that help enable cults and other abhorrent groups to spread their shit messages and do harm to the world.
Religion is the problem, it creates lot of divide, and some people just decide they don't want to believe in God at all. You don't need religion to be Christian, religion is just a distraction and these days it's a big one. Lot of conflict is caused by it.
Unfortunately for those who choose to not believe, the after life exists whether or not you want to, and the alternative to heaven is not pretty... The fact that it's for eternity is what makes it so horrible. Believe in God and that Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins and ask him in your heart and you shall be saved. You don't need religion. When Jesus was on the cross there were two thieves beside him. One of them asked Jesus to remember him when he gets to heaven and Jesus told him he will be with him in paradise. This man had sin all his life and was a bad person but was saved at that moment as he believed who Jesus was.
Unfortunately for you, no it doesn't at least in the sense you think it does. Who cares, you'd be dead, you'd have no consciousness to perceive your rotting corpse. My point being the alternative to heaven is reality. Its not pretty because you've chosen to live lie of make believe magic bullshit and then hold up everything to such nonsense and remark about how it doesn't match up (even though half the time its actually better than your alleged heaven...). See, you're doing exactly what you were just criticizing religion for, but now you've duped yourself into believing that you're one of the "true Christians" by acting like you're being any different from any of the ones preaching the exact same horseshit you are.
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