Polls show atheists on the rise in America

I think the biggest reason is that too many people have been turned away or pushed away from churches for far too long. Not just here in America but around the world.

Here in Central Florida, I went to over 20 churches looking for help for our veterans with PTSD. One responded, he was a Chaplain and a minister. The others, well they just couldn't be bothered. I kept trying. I would talk to this one and that one at a church highly recommended by a parishioner. Offered a polite conversation and a promise I would be contacted by the person I needed to talk to, but never heard back from them. There is too much talking about being Christian and too little actions to go with it.

People have basic needs and each searching for what they need to be "happy" in this life. Food, shelter, clothing and someone to share their life with, but they also look for what they feel is missing inside of them. If they looked for it in churches before and didn't find it, do you really expect them to believe there is a God up there loving them when they couldn't find anyone acting like Him down here?

If people are turning away from the churches, we have only ourselves to blame.

Polls show atheists on the rise in America


By Agence France-Presse

Published: August 26, 2009


DAVIE, Florida — When South Florida atheists held their first meeting, they were just five friends, having a beer at a bar.

Four years later, they’ve moved to a bigger place — still a bar — to hold their weekly meet-and-greets. Membership is up to almost 500, Darwin Day is in the planning stages and bumper stickers are on sale.

“There is no God, but ice-cream is great,” reads one. “What schools need is a moment of science,” reads another.

Atheist groups are growing all over the United States, challenging stereotypes and confronting what they consider a big backslide in the separation of church and state.

They are chatting online, picking up trash along “adopted” highways, and advertising on buses and billboards. In South Florida, they recently picketed a prayer meeting in a public safety building paid for with tax dollars.
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