The ratio of "Religiously unaffiliated" people is at 1 out of 5 people.
This was more than likely mostly recorded outside of the bible belt, and most of the people in the survey were probably adults. There seems to be a lot more teens and children becoming atheists, while older generations seem to be mostly Theist. Nevertheless, the percentage of atheist or "Religiously unaffiliated" people is growing rapidly, and with help of atheist YouTubers that have hundreds of thousands of subscribers, this number is getting bigger day by day... Some people say religion may be uncommon by year 2055. I'd like to know what you guys have to say about this. Where do you think it will be?
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I think it will take about a good 100 years before religious powers are weakened enough to be exposed for what they are.
The main issue here is that misinformation and culture stops perfectly decent and reasonable people to see the most obvious of crimes.
Religious institutions pay a lot of money to make sure those things remain like they are.
I am always amazed how can people believe and exonerate the church from those everyday crimes:
Rape of children physically
Rape of children via brainwashing(they do not wait till the kid is mature enough before)
Begging for money from the people when they are swimming in money.
Make people give them land when they die.
Make people believe that their kids are not healthy because they are not believers.
Corruption on every level of the church starting with the pope and cardinals.
They own banks, countries etc.. and yet they expect you to help them brainwash more people for free.
As long as they have all that control the propaganda campaign will continue.
They have their own radio stations in every christian country/town
Their own church in every town.
Billboards
Employees payed by the people living there(we call priests)
Schools
Monuments
Feasts
Subjects in schools
Humanitarian aid(with the bible in one hand)
Prayer groups
Prayer leaflets
ETC.........
They are like running for president every single day.
No one can beat that kind of PR no matter how much effort atheists make.
Only education and time can help.
The people have to help themselves getting out of it and it only happens slightly every new generation.
I give it a 100 years minimum.
That's not an appreciable time span for a couple thousands years of doctrine to feel any bruising. Atheists are already accepted. We're viewed as whack jobs so tolerance by the less-enlightened will continue with our current zero-credence rating safely in hand.
I think our numbers will increase relative to some unknown percentage of the birthrate but that will be countered by the balance being indoctrinated into the various belief systems.
One thing that might be a game changer is the ever-increasing use of a growing internet that never occurred before. People will be shopping for opinions and sites like this will be searched out. That said, if the atheist truly does sport a whack-job psyche to the teetering theist, such a recruit for enlightenment just may dismiss it as a choice.
Lots of atheists do come across as poor role models by using it as a soapbox to rant from. Their spiel is largely tainted with personal bias against theism. That is not only odd, considering the defining conduct of an atheist, it's also very antagonistic and people show their heels to that kind of treatment. For that reason I do not keep company with most atheists I know. Their vocalizations come from a holier-than-thou approach and that is something I do not condone. In context to the thread's question, atheists themselves can be repulsive. Why join that crowd?
It is hard to say, because it is so widely demonized. I want to be confident in saying that it will continue to grow as it has in recent history, but it really depends on whether earths population seeks available information or if information is even available.
Well in 25 years I believe in this:
1. We will be more in numbers since many people are starting to "wake up" and Religion will go downhill. It's already starting in Australia, Atheism is going to be the top community, overpowering Islam and Christianity alike.
2. We will be more accepted in the society due to the rapid advancements of Technology and Science which will make people realize more and more that God doesn't exist.
3. More changes will come in the field of Science due to the increase of Atheists and the decrease of Theists.
One way or another, Religion will go down and Atheism will go up. While Agnosticism won't last for long, it'll eventually disappear once people stop slipping between 2 Realities and walk on their own path.
My guess for 2055: Religion won't disappear for centuries but true believers in Abrahamic god(s) might be as rare in 37 years time as believers in witches are today - and maybe clerics will be taken no more seriously than wizards. Once Abrahamic religions are undermined the worst of the superstition, dogma and clerical privilege will be history. The main thing is that it puts paid to the religious tribalism. I hope it ends the idea of a 'holy land' which belongs to one religious group.
I don't know for sure... but I think that herr twittler's supreme court pickets are going to be a problem for atheism for at least a decade.
I would say it will take at least 100 years for religion to start the dying process. The US will need another 20 - 25 years for a major political changer to happen. When most of the older republicans die off. Same can be said for religion, all the older people dying off.
25 years is a long time away. Technology from 25 years ago to now may have advanced rapidly.. but just like 25 years ago.. Virgin mary candles still fly off store shelves. What changes can happen by another 25 years? Who knows? I say a rise in the Athiest population. That's about it.
I am afraid we won't see a star trek utopia in our lifetimes.