You are a blip in history

Atheists are as old as time and predate religion as we know it

Oh shit, I'll be right back, got to go tell my wife and kid they're not real and it turns out I'm gay.

Hey! I'm not gay. I mean, yeah, I'd do Henry Cavill but that doesn't count.

Question:

The reasoning in the commenter’s argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it:

A) Incorrectly assumes that atheism is a hereditary trait that can be subject to natural selection and extinction.

B) Fails to acknowledge that the existence of atheists with children contradicts the claim that atheists do not reproduce.

C) Makes a hasty generalization that all atheists share the same sexual orientation and emotional state, without sufficient evidence.

D) Mistakenly treats antinatalism as a universal characteristic of atheists rather than a personal philosophical choice that varies among individuals.

E) Overlooks the possibility that atheism can continue to exist independently of the reproductive choices of current atheists, through the persuasion of others or change of belief over time.

Thirty-nine per cent of Australians now identify as non-religious, up from 30 per cent in 2016 and almost double the 22 per cent of Australians who ticked the “no religion” box a decade ago.

In the mid-1960s, less than 1 per cent of people in Australia identified as having no religion.

A blip indeed. Statistically their grandchildren are likely to be non-religious, good chance of being atheist.

Dont really want to talk rn. Just found out im gay and depressed.

People trying to use their understanding of science to explain god. Its fair to say that we wouldn't copy their science homework.

Instead I will align my life centred around a story about a dude who sought out 12 guys to hang out with which then concluded with a supper where he asked everyone to pretend that they were consuming his body.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Bruh this is so insane it's both tragic and hilarious at the same time

The meek shall inherit...

I don’t know any highly educated Christian of my generation (millennial) who is deeply religious. Even if they tell everyone that they are religious they rarely go to Church or even pray at home, and their Bible is somewhere in a box in the attic. They don’t even indoctrinate their kids with their religion. Chances are high that their kids will be atheist or agnostic. They will run the world.

Christianity is slowly dying out in the developed world at least in the parts with a good education system and where most people trust the sciences. I bet the same will happen to Islam in the west. Once the third gen muslim migrants are all dead the generations afterwards will slowly turn non-religious. End of the century the descendants of Muslims who are in the West for generations and middle class and educated will be atheist or non practicing Muslims.

Wait a minute. I'm not gay.

Someone needs to send him a list of Atheists. God blesses Atheists with fame, fortune, and children. If he gave up his false belief in God, he too could have a blessed life.

Arthur Miller (rich, famous, married Marilyn Monroe)

Jack Nicholson

Brad Pitt

Bill Gates

George Clooney

Warren Buffett

Dammit. I’m a depressed gay atheist.. now I’m also a stereotype?

Ahh yes exactly how biology and psychology works . You heardbit here first people only atheists can make atheists because duh GOD and not science. I wonder why god didn't give the people who follows it brain oh i got it because then they won't follow it.

You know what, they're right. I'm gonna start sucking dick.

Wow. I’d better tell my wife that I’m actually gay that our children don’t exist because I don’t believe in Teh SkyDaddy (tm).

This man sounds gay and depressed

"my empirical experiences support that, so that must be statistically correct!" Also yeah like he has never met atheist with kids...

I never understood how this have sense. I could be depressed because life is shit unfair and I can do almost nothing to change it. But at least I am not pretending to have an imaginary friend that solves all my problems. I think it is better to accept the reality as shit as it could be instead of lying oneself to be happier.

Joke's on him, I'm bi and depressed.

there was an argument that was popular in the 70s about how evolution was aiming at intelligence; the breeding habits of the retarded have disproven it.

Atheist here. Successfully reproduced, still alive, and offspring will probably repeat that feat.

I mean, selection is always against antinatalism - even within early Christianity.

For example:

A woman in the crowd said to him, "Lucky are the womb that bore you and the breasts that fed you."

He said to [her], "Lucky are those who have heard the word of the Father and have truly kept it. For there will be days when you will say, 'Lucky are the womb that has not conceived and the breasts that have not given milk.'"

• Gospel of Thomas saying 79

You see the call and response broken up into two separated parts in Luke, but the mirroring indicates they probably went together originally.

The antinatalism isn't just here, it's also in surviving fragments of a lost work followers of the above also followed:

Salome saith: Until when shall men continue to die? [...] and it is advisedly that the Lord makes an answer: So long as women bear children. [...]

And why do not they who walk by anything rather than the true rule of the Gospel go on to quote the rest of that which was said to Salome: for when she had said, 'I have done well, then, in not bearing children?' (as if childbearing were not the right thing to accept)

• The Gospel of the Egyptians as preserved in Clem. Alex. Strom. iii. 9. 64 & 66

So there's a bit of irony in this person making fun of beliefs involving not having kids dying out when there's a decent chance the original advice of the person they intend to believe over all others was actually saying the same thing and the proponents of that group thinned out over the years since his death leaving cannonical Christianity to thrive due to literal survivorship bias.

Amusingly, this group's alleged teachings overlap with modern 'atheism' in a number of other things too, such as their inclusion of atomism into their beliefs and entertaining the rejection of intelligent design in favor of Lucretius's naturalism.