Religious people suck.
This is so obvious that I won’t bother supporting the statement.
As a religious person, I know exactly how much religious people suck.
Non-religious people constantly remind me.
In fact, the heathen talk about little else.
Godless free-thinkers celebrate the decline of religion like Bernie Sanders celebrates tax hikes.
So this article has atheists doing backflips…
…because atheists read headlines instead of whole articles.
The headline says:
0.0% of Icelanders 25 years or younger believe God created the world, new poll reveals
This is great news for the gaggle of godless goons praying to the void for the extinction of religion.
Filled with joy, they write stuff like:
Having read the article, consider this my “hand wave reply”.
The 0.0% statistic is probably wrong.
The poll did not survey every person in Iceland who is 25 years old or younger.
In the article (that’s the part under the headline that you didn’t read) you’ll find this:
The poll, which was conducted by the polling firm Maskína on behalf of Siðmennt, The Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association, an association of Icelandic atheists, found that 46.4% of Icelanders identify as religious, which is the lowest figure to date.
Humanists paid for the poll.
That explains why the headline wasn’t:
80.6% of those older than 55 identified as Christian and only 11.8% said they were atheists.
Do you see how easy it is to skew statistics?
No?
Then consider this quote from the article (which you didn’t read):
Of those younger than 25, 93.9% said the world had been created in the big bang and 0.0% believed God had created the world…In all but the oldest age category a majority accepted the big-bang theory.
Stop clapping and dancing for just a second.
If you care at all about the reputation of the Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association, you’ll pass this along to them.
Please answer this question:
Do you believe the Ford Taurus was created by human beings or machines in a factory?
(No. You can’t say “both”.)
You can use the results of this survey to write a headline that reads:
0.0% of People Age 25 Or Under Believe Humans Created Automobiles
Yay!
Belief in secular manufacturing is skyrocketing!
In a few generations, we’ll abandon the myth of Henry Ford all-together!
I know you don’t read things but I’m posting this and this anyway.
I’ll summarize with a headline:
Christianity is not declining.
Sorry to rain on your parade.
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Very good post, John (along with those great “this” links 😊), thank you.
I think you’ll like this: Ravi Zacharias (I love this man) is saying some things that resonate nicely with your post.
The Crusades and Atheism – YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=48lRYxuMHz8
I was thinking along the same lines as Jeff. If a modern day St. Patrick showed up in Iceland, I’ll bet all the “snakes” would disappear. There is a ready vacuum for a Revival there.
The comment by Ravi about a civilian population revolting against a state-sponsored church also makes me think that might be part of the current phenomenon in Iceland…
(Apologies for jumping around a bit – my “smartphone” is acting up tonight – I think it’s woozy from its latest update.)
Great post and comments… ❤️
I only read the headline, so I’m going to presume that Iceland is hell
I also just remembered that there was a headline that they’d (or some Scandinavian country) had “cured” Down syndrome……but if you read the article, they did it through eugenics
Indeed, death solves all our problems.
The OP brings to light two major points to me – first (The main point) is that people suck at reading non-headlines.
Second, there’s a demonstrated tribalism within the celebratory atheist community that seems to be the exact type of thing the same groups promotes as evil and hurtful within religious communities. I don’t care if we call Atheism a religion or not, but it’s this sort of behavior that makes outsiders look at neo-atheists as a religion (which, many within the group don’t even try to understand that’s the point trying to made and simply put up walls with “Not a religion! Anything you say is irrelevant if you suggest I’m part of a religion!”). The “Yay, Religion is dying!” types of comments are no better than the attitudes Christians who seem to merely care about professions of faith.
I know pointing out hypocrisy is the posh thing to do nowadays and is hypocritical itself… but hey… I think the point still remains.
A bit funny, their next article is “the gospel of Christ’s kindness trumps religious freedom,” regarding gay marriage. So while all religious people suck and they dream of the day we disappear, atheists are also frequently to be found demanding, “the gospel of Christ’s kindness” be fully demonstrated in the world. Ironically, it is also “the gospel of Christ’s kindness” that grants atheists the right to disbelieve, the right to shoot off their mouths, the freedom to create incoherent and irrational philosophies.
People, you’re actually forced to borrow, “the gospel of Christ’s kindness,” as your standard for measuring what is good in the world. But what would I know, I’m just one of those sucky religious people. These guys are like fish swimming along trying to tell everyone water isn’t wet, in fact, water is a total myth.
Good point.
The atheist says, “I’m good without God” but struggles to explain the meaning of the word “good”. Every human virtue requires grounding in religion. Apparently, this bit of common sense is sorely lacking among young Icelanders.
From the article which I read below the headline it said this ” At the same time 40.5% of people who were 25 years or younger said they were atheists, and only 42% said they were Christian. Traditional Christian beliefs also seem more common outside of Reykjavík, where 77-90% of people identified as Christian and 7.1-18 were atheists, compared to 56.2% of people in Reykjavík who identified as Christian and 31.4% as atheist.” This study is 3 years old one good revival and all their data will be useless. Once again you see what you want to see and 85% of all statistics are made up. Wake me when Iceland becomes a world superpower because of their humanistic endeavors.
Greenland is actually icier than Iceland……and Iceland is greener than Greenland….an atheist switched the names in error when he was drunk…….Iceland has a rather nice climate in the summer!
If religious people suck… presumably because they are religious… then why aren’t atheists the nicest people to be around?
Would you be nice if you lived in Iceland?
Too cold to be mean. 🙂
Plus all the cold, ice, snow practical jokes have probably been done to death over the generations. There’s no fun in being mean.