Atheism

So now you want to tie up another fifty posts about this? There are certainly no winners from this situation.

Or that it's probably much more than 6% but many don't come out for many of the reasons that have been talked about on this thread.

I know it's wrong. In my defense, I don't do hundreds of posts to pursue the point.

In the last few years, they would ask people who claim a religious affiliation if they believe in god. That must have struck the true believers as awfully odd--but the big surprise is that about 10% of self-professed Catholics and Protestants say that they don't believe there is a god.

My last word: Not in this thread.

No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven's glories shine,
And Faith shines equal, arming me from Fear.

O God within my breast,
Almighty, ever-present Deity!
Life, that in me has rest,
As I, undying Life, have power in Thee!.

Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts: unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main,

To waken doubt in one
Holding so fast by Thy infinity,
So surely anchored on
The steadfast rock of Immortality.

With wide-embracing love
Thy Spirit animates eternal years,
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears.

Though earth and moon were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
And Thou wert left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee.

There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou -Thou art Being and Breath,
And what Thou art may never be destroyed.