So why are normies not religious anymore? Don't tell me they've become smarter, we all know they haven't

>>17812589 (OP)
>another idiot who thinks 15 years or so after WWII was the norm for all of American history
Also religion threads in general are spam and should be deleted.

God went into hiding and stopped performing miracles conveniently right as the average person started putting cameras in their pocket

>>17812592
r/Georgecarlin

They did get smarter

>>17812592
this doesn't mean that miracles are fake

>>17812589 (OP)
For the same reason why young men are withdrawing from universities, workplaces, and the military

might as well be support for protracted warfare against somebody halfway across the planet

>>17812600
Maybe but it also isn't a good look for religious credibility, it makes 99% of supernatural claims pre-20th century appear to be bullshit peddled by grifters

>>17812589 (OP)
This chart says literally nothing. No Y-axis values.

>>17812589 (OP)
1. They are exposed to a wider range of religious views, which causes them to think more instead of blindly accepting what they were raised to believe.
2. They see Christians as hypocrites.
>b-but nobody's perfect!
And no one expects perfection, but when you see that people who are really into Jesus not only appear to be no better than average, but can often be the most hateful and contemptible people around, it makes people not want to be part of those communities.

Their all-loving God ended up killing his most loyal followers for some reason

>>17812669
doesn't California have a shitton of wildfires and earthquakes though?

>>17812676
Yes but they cause more economic damage than direct death.

>>17812676
>Wildfires
a non-issue, the last major wildfire in California earlier this year covered an area the size of an entire city yet it resulted in less deaths than your average Eastern European night club fire.
Earthquake damage can and has been largely mitigated through Earthquake resistant infrastructure. Most homes in California for example are built on slab foundation for this exact reason, even homes from over 50 years ago are made with Earthquake proofing in mind, and homes that don't can be retrofitted. In fact, an the United States in general, the biggest risk from Earthquakes do not come from structural damage but rather from objects coming off of shelves and landing on people or furniture tipping over. That's why the US practices the "duck and cover" technique, whereas in Europe they practice the "Triangle of Life" method. The Triangle of Life assumes that the building will suffer Earthquake damage, a lot of older homes and buildings in Southern and Eastern Europe are found to be more likely to collapse during an Earthquake, in the US the risk profile is not the same.

>>17812600
Of course it does. Absence of evidence isn't necessarily evidence of absence but it almost always is

>>17812589 (OP)
Their hearts have darkened

>>17812589 (OP)
They’ve become better informed ( not smarter )

>>17812592
>atheists believe the world revolves around them
God stopped performing miracles (as you understand them) millennia ago, the Protestant reformers checked the excessive supernaturalism of the middle ages, insisting miracles had ceased long before, centuries before the camera was invented

all religion that tells you salvation is external is a grift