ChristianKl comments on Rationality Quotes April 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 13 April 2014 10:14:40PM -1 points [-]

Also, the fact that many people believe in God as a source of morality, is itself a reason why history (i.e. the actions of those people) is a bad moral guide.

For Hegel and Marx history is the process of change.

Both the amounts of Gods per person and the percentage of people who believe went down over time. Thus history favors atheism.

Comment author: DanArmak 14 April 2014 02:39:15PM 3 points [-]

I don't see why the 'amount of Gods per person' is a valid metric for anything. Progression from poly- to monotheism doesn't imply a future progression to atheism.

The actual percent of atheists in society has indeed increased over time, but it's never been significantly above 10% worldwide and it's not clear that's it's rising right now (Wikipedia source). It's hardly strong enough evidence to conclude that a majority of humanity will be atheistic one day. Other religions surely exhibit or previously exhibited rising trends at least as strong.