originally posted in:Secular Sevens
I highly doubt it will be "completely irrelevant" by 2041, but I do suspect its influence over many people's lives will be greatly lessened.
It's funny, but when I am at college, I generally assume that everyone I meet is an atheist/irreligious. Now that obviously isn't true, but I just feel like most of the people that I know, in college, either aren't religious or show no strong religious beliefs. Granted, several of the people that I know identify as LGBT (myself included but I am not out to many) so that certainly can affect who I meet.
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That's weird because for me, I don't even know any atheists, aside from one guy who pretends he's not an atheist.
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You went to Catholic Schools (IIRC), it isn't exactly unsurprising.
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I went to a Catholic school, I'd estimate 70%+ of my graduating body would be atheists, agnostics or people who never really cared at all. Then again religious apathy is pretty strong in Australia.
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Yea, I'd say 3/4 of the people I know are irreligious. The next challenge is getting people to take their newfound reasoning skills and applying them to social and political causes. Most of those people I know are so reactionary, the only left positions are on drug legalization and lgbt rights (even then, they forget the 't').