Atheism Archives - Universal Life Church Monastery Blog
August 24th, 2023
Why are young people leaving the church? Reports show that Millennials and Gen-Z are less religious than any generations before them, and that trend will only continue. Why are young people turning their back on faith?
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September 17th, 2022
A new Pew report says that Americans are losing their religion. Within 50 years, it says, Christianity will no longer be the dominant religion in this country, making up as little as one-third of Americans.
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July 13th, 2022
After a series of legal wins for publicly praying Christians, a group of Satanists and atheists want to put the religious freedom rulings to the test, invoking Satan at school board and city council meetings.
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July 9th, 2022
A new poll shows that Americans' literal belief in the Bible is at its lowest point since pollsters began asking that question. Additionally, more Americans than ever before view the Bible as a book of fables.
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December 30th, 2021
A North Carolina sheriff says he's being targeted politically after an atheist activist group told him to remove a Bible quote from station walls. Is it freedom of religion, or a flagrant Constitutional violation?
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June 23rd, 2021
A new poll shows that Christians and atheists have very different ideas on whether the death penalty is moral. While atheists largely oppose capital punishment, most Christians, particularly evangelicals, are in favor.
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February 12th, 2021
A prominent professor recently said that the modern creationist movement, particularly the belief in a young Earth, is indistinguishable from believing in a conspiracy theory. Christians didn't take kindly to that.
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July 2nd, 2020
Mississippi seems poised to finally remove the Confederate Battle Flag from their own state flag. But they intend to replace it with the words "In God We Trust", which many advocates say is offensive to the nonreligious.
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May 27th, 2020
The lead singer of a popular Christian rock group recently announced on Instagram that he's lost his faith, mirroring other prominent faith leaders who've left Christianity. Responses ranged from supportive to outraged.
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