Atheism

I know Russia is the second country who believes in evolution so Atheism would be one of them
Christianity (mostly Russian Orthodox) with Islam and Buddhism in central Asia and far Eastern Russia.

Taylor hasn't made his religious beliefs public, but some sites claim he is a religious agnostic.

Dawkins self identifies himself as an atheist and states in the opening chapter of "The God Delusion":

"God is a delusion. ... Human thoughts and emotions emerge from exceedingly complex interconnections of physical entities within the brain. An atheist in this sense of philosophical naturalist is somebody who believes there is nothing beyond the natural, physical world, no supernatural creative intelligence lurking behind the observable universe, no soul that outlasts the body and no miracles - except in the sense of natural phenomena that we don't yet understand."

No.

There have been evil people who were atheist, just as there have been evil people who were theists.

And also plenty of good people of varying beliefs (and non-beiefs) as well.

For example: I am an atheist, and I'm not evil. None of my friends are evil, and most of them are atheist as well. Though some are religious, and I know a lovely Quaker lady.

Whoever told you that atheists are evil is, simply, lying to you. I wonder why they are trying to spread hatred of other human beings based only on their belief system?

Now, to me, that sounds pretty evil.

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Atheism is the lack of any belief in deities or higher beings in a spiritual realm.

There's no real way to give an example of not believing in God or any gods as Atheists do not practice rituals or traditions to show disbelief.

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An example of an atheist would be someone who generally doesn't believe in anything without evidence such as ghosts, hobbits, leprechauns, God, those kinds of things. But obviously as you can tell from the word aTHEIST, it is the opposite of theism, which is the belief in God, such as Catholics

Yes. Of course.

Honesty, peace, love, honour, preservation of life, understanding, respect, and acceptance of those who are different.

Unless the religion involves killing, of course.

Killing of animals and humans warrants an intervention, into the practices of the culture, the sacrafice of animals to a higher power that the animals carcase might provide food, clothing, shelter, tools. The sacraficing of a human on the other hand, requires more investigation, sacrafice for a crime is acceptable, sacrafice for what, who, how they are is murder.

Disbelievers, around 3-12 million, non-believers well over 40 million.

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Some polls put religious belief in the USA as high as 90%. That's much higher than in any European country. Trying to determine the number of atheists in any country is difficult: but in a country which has so many religious fundamentalists, it would be impossible to gather any accurate figures.

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A new Gallop polls showed that upward of about 15% of the American population, roughly twenty million Americans, are atheists.

Atheists are not a society with motives , programs to spread "the faith', convert others, secret handshakes or passwords. Atheists do not spread their faith, each one who is an atheist has come to that position by personal inspection of the foibles and falsehoods of religions and the belief in the existence of a god or gods.

What guidance there is comes from logic, insight, research, evidence and the ability to say "That does not make sense when presented with religious and dogmatic positions.

As strangeas it may sound to the religious, the more a person educates himself, the more apt he is to become an atheist.

It is somewhat of a satisfaction to know that, as an individual, you know not to kill, lie, cheat, steal, abuse children or animals, or lay waste to others homes. All that knowledge without a god or clergy telling you.

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Solipism is a phylosophical idea proposing that one's own mind is all that exists, with the rest of the universe, including people, etc, being just projections of your own mind. For example, if you are a solipist, then this answer in wikiAnswers you are just reading right now comes from your own mind, so you either just invented solipism as a concept or you already knew what it was but had not realised it yet.

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It's as old as man himself. The first time a man looked into the sky, he strained to explain what he saw. Over time, this evolved into religion. Now we know why most of these things happen, but unfortunately, religion has endured.

Christianity, for example, used to tell people what the stars were, and that the sun went around the earth. As knowledge grows, religions shrink and try to explain less and less. A Christian from 1000 years ago would not recognise modern Christianity. No posession by demons - that's mental illness (though the Vatican, scandalously, still practise exorcism today). No relics of saints being traded. No splinters from the True Cross being sold.

Modern versions of religions are basically hollow shells of what they were before.

One has to wonder why you would want to!

However, religious belief does gradually seem to be declining in the world, so it seems difficult to try and stop atheism growing.

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Atheism spreads when people know they can believe whatever they want to believe and also choose not to believe or be a part of. And atheism spreads even faster when there isn't much forcing people to believe in a certain way. Look at Islam and Judaism. They have very aggressive rules about how one should believe. Not conforming to those criteria could mean expulsion, community detachment and even death. You won't find many atheists there. But then look at christian communities, where there is a lot of freedom in what and how to believe. Someone who acknowledges to be gay or athiest doesn't really face harse consequences. You find many atheists here.

Atheisms is also directly related to our dependency on technology. The more advanced our understanding on nature becomes, the more we rely more on technology and science than on God. As you can see people is still debating the big bang theory.

So how do you prevent it !? The solution is to teach your children to be god fearing.

You'd have to ask him directly for an accurate answer.

From his writings, I would infer that he would regard wars in different ways according to the circumstances.

The Second World War he would probably feel was justified: the Allies took forceful action to eliminate an evil regime.

The Crusades, by contrast, were basically caused entirely by differing faith positions. They achieved nothing positive, and were an appalling waste of human life, and a source of tremendous suffering - for no real reason.

That's what I imagine he'd feel. But like I said: you'll have to ask him.

War is sometimes necessary to prevent greater evil. Sometimes it's evil itself.

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Atheism is the non-belief in a deity of any sort. This precludes any religion that has a supernatural source of authority such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, pantheism, Hinduism, even Satanism and Wicca (even though these are often touted by theists as being equivalent to atheism).

This leaves us with the philosophical "religions" such as Buddhism and Taoism and philosophies of life like humanism and even North Korea's Juche. The Stoicism discussed in writings such as the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius with its ideal of dispassionate compliance with natural forces also has many close parallels with Buddhist thought.

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Try teaching them about the stories of the bible and make Jesus 1st. Pray every night and stress the importance of god in their lives .

Convince them there is a god regardless of the fact that you have no evidence.

I would argue that to teach your child to accept arguments with no basis in fact would be to reduce their ability to reason, if you feel your religion is more important than your child's intellectual development then go right ahead.