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We need more home for homeless rather than mosque ? or church ⛪.

Yusuf85 4 Aug 23
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I have been volunteering in a rough sleepers pop up hostel, and it is in a church!

Regburns Level 5 Aug 25, 2018
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It has been demonstrated that as living standards rise, the birthrate goes down. We need to eliminate poverty rather than blame specific groups. We also need to do a lot more to educate young people about the dangers and evils of religion so that they chose to change their cultures themselves rather than have us telling them what to do.

CeliaVL Level 7 Aug 24, 2018
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How true Josef, but people who think like us do not run governments and make the decisions. Quite a few of the more moderate Christian denominations are actually losing members and closing churches, however the more radical evangelical ones seem to be increasing their number of adherents. In most Muslim countries the birth rate is high and they are increasing at an alarming rate. I don’t know what the answer is to combating the deadly creep of religion, but in the meantime all governments everywhere should be making sure they are building enough homes for all their citizens.

I do agree with you . I know in the Muslim country’s population growth dramatically higher which is bad. How ever we have to work together to reach our goals . I believe slowly but surely we will meet our target ?

@David_Cooper I think it's not possible yet they are so strong we should do more

Yes you are right but in Muslim countries ateism is increasing however I am from Muslim country we are rare in Muslim countries

@David_Cooper Sadly, this is true....but how can we counter it?

The idea of trying to further inflate the planet's insanely unsustainable birth rate is terrifying. At the current rate of population growth, the species will be extinct sooner rather than later, due to our resources running dry and/or climate change running rampant.
Similarly, anything that touches on eugenics automatically infringes personal liberties and will never be viable outside of a police state, so this must be discounted as a solution. However, education can work wonders in leading horses to water when it comes to both contraception and causing people to recognise if they should consider removing themselves from the gene pool. For example, people knowing that their children would have a 50-50 chance of contracting a condition that would condemn them to a short, painful life (and any not contracting it would face the same dilemma with their own children) should lead any properly educated and responsible adult to choose adoption over reproduction.

Rather, I think we need to recognise that we currently are a minority and will remain so unless we can properly (and peacefully) spread reason to the next generation. The children of atheists do not necessarily grow up atheists, though there is a much greater chance - similarly, the children of the religious do not necessarily grow up religious, though there is a much greater chance. We just need to find the appropriate channels to make it known to children that all claims need to be challenged rather than blindly accepted. I was raised religious, went to religious schools, but was fortunate to have diligent science teachers, an interest in Star Trek and one rather dedicated RE teacher who I think was secretly an atheist herself, which all helped me realise that the lack of any direct evidence for a god was in of itself circumstantial evidence against one.

@Jalnor I agree entirely about the world’s population. It is madness for aid to be delivered to developing countries without a programme of contraception as a trade off. To see women giving birth in famine struck and war torn countries shocks me. Quite often these women have no access to birth control and probably in some cases because their religion prohibits contraception wouldn’t use it anyway. The idea of us trying to outbreed them is horrifying !

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