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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Oct 7

    50% of English citizens say they have no religion; 70% of those <= 24. In EN i document 3 global trends pulling in different directions: 1. People are deserting religion. 2. The religious have more babies. 3.The religious are politically organized & vote.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/07/church-in-crisis-as-only-2-of-young-adults-identify-as-c-of-e …

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      2. Wind2Energy‏ @Wind2Energy Oct 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Churchill, when asked why he was not a member of the Church of England: “I’m like a flying buttress-I support it from the outside.”

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      3. simon evans‏ @TheSimonEvans Oct 7
        Replying to @Wind2Energy @sapinker

        Love this.

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      1. Jennifer Toigo Rourk‏ @ChartreuseDoor Oct 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Down with religion!

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      2. Luis Torres‏ @luistarasco Oct 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Nihilism rising and tribalism, anger, suicides, etc. No bueno.

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      3. Frank Rush‏ @FPRush Oct 7
        Replying to @luistarasco @sapinker

        Evidence?

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      4. Adam Craig‏ @Adam11601845 Oct 7
        Replying to @FPRush @luistarasco @sapinker

        Atheism is morally bankrupt.

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      2. Jonathan Johnston‏ @shadfurman Oct 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Not having religion isn't the problem. Not having a solid foundation of morals and purpose IS a very big problem.

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      3. Grigorii Nos‏ @GrigoriiNos Oct 8
        Replying to @shadfurman @sapinker

        brilliant

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      1. CoffeeFueled‏ @EponymousBreeze Oct 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        How does one galvanize the Fortnite block?

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      2. Minoo Osborne‏ @MinooOsborne Oct 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Oh no! I should’ve had more kids. But at least we always vote & our kids have turned out atheists too! Good to hear the trend is heading the right way👍🏼

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      3. Adam Craig‏ @Adam11601845 Oct 7
        Replying to @MinooOsborne @sapinker

        The right way? Right implying along some sort of moral progress? Strange thing for an atheist to say in their Godless worldview

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      4. Varg Magnus Bjelland‏ @L3X3CU710N3R Oct 7
        Replying to @Adam11601845 @MinooOsborne @sapinker

        Remember, there are many evil gods in the myths of superstitious folk, and the legends of the honoured gods include behaviour that is every bit as cruel and petty as the most flawed human. The gods are merely vestigial husks of the anthropomorphised wisdom of ignorant savages.

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      5. Minoo Osborne‏ @MinooOsborne Oct 7
        Replying to @L3X3CU710N3R @Adam11601845 @sapinker

        Beautifully put!

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      1. Richard de Crespigny‏ @RichardDeCrep Oct 8
        Replying to @sapinker

        Is #religion #resilient? Equilibrium is the precursor to death. Only the adaptable species survive. Rather than fearing change, we should fear not changing. #ElementsOfResiliencehttp://FLY-theBook.com 

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      1. Scrips Reader‏ @ScripsReader Oct 7
        Replying to @sapinker @safiranand

        India in another 20 years 👍

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      1. Dug dug‏ @Dugdug2 Oct 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        I would prefer sharing a community with a christian over your standard SJW PC socialist cultist that thinks everything is about power that they need to win. I am saying the university have created a religion of destruction.

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      1. Ian Wilson‏ @YouAreDreaming Oct 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Steven, have you ever had a lucid dream? I mean, it's been scientifically proven that we can be conscious during sleep. I've spent the last 31 years being conscious in my own dreams. How about you?pic.twitter.com/ZFMGLcJ0ot

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      2. Sean Jason Webb‏ @SeanJasonWebb Oct 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        Younger people are identifying themselves as spiritual which isn’t always an improvement.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Dan Smith‏ @DanielS07710895 Oct 7
        Replying to @SeanJasonWebb @sapinker

        Exactly - they still yearn for spirituality, but secularists seem determined on undermining any kind of structure religion can offer them. Who’s to say the next set of religious practices is better having not been evolutionarily tested.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Sean Jason Webb‏ @SeanJasonWebb Oct 7
        Replying to @DanielS07710895 @sapinker

        The psychological glitch is exercised differently. Passive spiritual beliefs where that adherent is still in touch with reality don’t concern me. Post modern beliefs are cause for concern. Two separate cathedrals model of modified religious systems can be a compromise.

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      5. Sean Jason Webb‏ @SeanJasonWebb Oct 7
        Replying to @SeanJasonWebb @DanielS07710895 @sapinker

        My preference would be science, reason and humanism.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Adam Craig‏ @Adam11601845 Oct 7
        Replying to @SeanJasonWebb @DanielS07710895 @sapinker

        Science/ reason and theism are not mutually exclusive. You tall about them as if it's one or the other.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Sean Jason Webb‏ @SeanJasonWebb Oct 7
        Replying to @Adam11601845 @DanielS07710895 @sapinker

        Theism does a horrible job of describing the world and how to best organize society.

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