Atheist societies die out because they have no investment in the future. They don't want no kids helping spend up their money. Selfishness. Greed. Of the grasping sort.
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Not to be confused with countries like the US, where we're known for strip mining, clear cutting forests in other countries, and soon, drilling for oil in wildlife preserves.
After all, here in the U.S., we have an investment in the future, and we're not selfish OR greedy.
Just to clarify, I'm not implying that other countries don't do that. But the U.S. does use a massively disproportionate amount of the world's resources, relative the the size of the population.
Plus, it was U.S. corporations which pioneered and promoted many of the techniques involved in such.
What atheist societies have died out? I wasn't really aware that there were any to begin with. The Soviet Union tried but Russia is still around so they haven't died out. And while China's government is officially atheist, they don't prevent people from practicing on their own, so the society isn't really atheist. The Nazi's were christian. Actually the only atheist society I can think of is the science society, and it has been around longer than Christianity. Oh, and it isn't a greedy, or selfish society; it usually tries to spread knowledge, to share it's 'wealth'.
As opposed to people who, say, believe they're going to be bodily swept up by God any day now? Yeah, they have a real investment in the future of people on Earth.
And of course no christians are ever selfish and greedy (of the "grasping sort...hey, that's kinda gay sounding)so they would not, lkie, BE CONSTANTLY BEGGING FOR MONEY AND SELLING DUBIOUS SHIT, ALL THE TIME AND PRAYING CONSTANTLY FOR MONEY. Oh, and Christian societies never die out either, just visit western europe and ask them.
Sierra - yup, you said it.
and, frankly, the way the chistians are going, hoping every minute for the rapture, fucking the earth in the process - that right there, that is investing in the future. Fuck off.
Want to talk about "no investment in the future"? Talk to a cluster of people who think that the world will end in their lifetime. If any society would have a "screw the future, we've only got 'NOW'" mentality, it would be a society run by people like that.
The only atheist societies that I know of were also communist. As far as I know, the economic reasons for their demise wasn't due to them keeping money out of areas that would benefit the next generation, but I am sure that you are a far better historian/economist than I.
Yup! Sweden is mostly non-religious people and we are dying out, and don't invest in the future, at all. Nosiree!
No, wait; our population is rising, partly because we godless selfish greedy people take in more refugees (relative* to our population) than most other EU countries.
*Sorry, I was wrong; it wasn't relative to our population. We took in more refugees in 2013 , in actual numbers, than any of the others, including Germany. Selfish and greedy, indeed!
(For reference; German population: 80,7 millions, Swedish population: 9,6 millions.)
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