High Rates Of Atheism

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Societies with high rates of happiness, stability, and social functioning are those with high rates of atheism. These societies have some of the lowest rates of violence crime in the world, some of the lowest rates of corruption, excellent education systems, strong economics, well-supported arts, free health care, egalitarian social politics, secular government and more. However, this certainly doesn’t suggest that high rates of atheism create happiness, stability, and high standard of social functioning. It’s probably the other way around - happiness, stability, and high standard of social functioning tend to lead to high rates of atheism. This result of course compares with the societies with high rates of religious population. Zukerman’s …show more content…

Non-believers (those do not believe and practice any of the organized religions) do have some beliefs, although not religious ones. For example, they believe that moral feelings are social in origin, based on treating others as they would wish to be treated; is in fact the ‘golden rule’ which antedates all the major world religions. Among many beliefs the most common ones are described below. While those non-religious beliefs began in the long past, open and strong denial of religion became pronounced only during the 19th and 20th centuries. During these periods, organizations have been built to represent the interests of the non-religious people. The followings are main terms that are commonly used to describe non-religious peoples; their understandings that lead to non-religious beliefs, organizations, and …show more content…

Agnostic Theism: This is the view (also called religious agnosticism) of those who do not claim to know of the existence of god or gods, but still believe in such an existence.
Agnostic Atheism: This is the view of those who claim not to know of the existence or non-existence of god or gods, but do not believe in them.
Strong Agnosticism: This is the view (also called hard agnosticism, closed agnosticism, strict agnosticism, absolute agnosticism or epistemological agnosticism) that the question of the existence or non-existence of god or gods is unknowable by reason of our natural inability to verify any experience with anything but another subjective experience.
Mild Agnosticism: This is the view (also called weak agnosticism, soft agnosticism, open agnosticism, empirical agnosticism, or temporal agnosticism) that the existence or non-existence of god or gods is currently unknown but is not necessarily unknowable; therefore, one will withhold judgment until more evidence becomes available.
Pragmatic Agnosticism: This is the view that there is no proof of either the existence or non-existence of god or

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