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Hamblin and Peterson: Anti-theists can't erase Christianity

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One would think that, if an ideal atheist state based on pure reason and the rejection of religion could have grown up anywhere, it would have been under Soviet tyranny, which left a people with little formal religious life.

Could the idealistic state for any religion come under a tyranny? Can 'pure reason' exist under a tyranny?

Any word from the dynamic duo on whether or not anti-theists can erase Mormonism?

Anti-theists and atheists won't erase Christianity or Mormonism, but time certainly will. Do Romans still worship Zeus? Do Mayans still worship Chak? The same will apply to Christianity. It will wane as man's trajectory of scientific understanding will continue to whittle away at Christianity until everyone slowly just moves on. One day it will simply become history and the stuff anthropologists will like to study.

Racer wrote:Anti-theists and atheists won't erase Christianity or Mormonism, but time certainly will. Do Romans still worship Zeus? Do Mayans still worship Chak? The same will apply to Christianity. It will wane as man's trajectory of scientific understanding will continue to whittle away at Christianity until everyone slowly just moves on. One day it will simply become history and the stuff anthropologists will like to study.

Yup. A religion doesn't go away because efforts are made to suppress it. That only gives it an inflated sense of self-importance: "I must be true, because evil people are trying to get rid of me."

A religion goes away when people simply lose interest in it.