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Is America finally starting to emerge from the dark ages of its superstitious past?

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Is America finally starting to emerge from the dark ages of its superstitious past?

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Religious fundamentalism was born here in the US in response to our post WWII, modern, secular society. If one doesn’t really understand science, it can appear to some as another “religion” of sorts, which of course it is not. The research your article cites (conducted by Trinity College in Hartford, CT) is consistent with other recent research studies on religion in America, marking a steady flight from traditional institutional religion. Some believe the flight from traditional religion is more a function of a declining relevance of institutional religion–a move away from religious institutions, more than a move toward atheism or anything else. I sense a growing “evangelical atheism” now rising in response to religious fundamentalism. Atheism no longer is the catch-all, all-other bucket for those who do not identify themselves as religious. It now seems to have almost religious qualities of its own. I have sensed that even here in Askville. Wherever we have differing belief systems

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