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Re:Wealth and Religion on Flickr [graph] by mynameishere on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @10:00PM (#119390)
Anti-religious links come up occasionally on reddit and elsewhere. Reddit commentors aren't a good sample of the population, but they are a good sample of the population that is 1) youngish, 2) professional, 3) media-aware, and 4) intellectually self-conscious.

And their attitude toward religion? Contemptuous, resentful, cheeky, mocking. ...it lends me to believe that the 1-4 things I described above simply raise people to a cynicism that won't tolerate the more obvious fairy tales. Nothing too complicated. You aren't dealing with Spinoza here, but just kids who got out of Mayberry.

Anyway, those same 1-4 things (when present in large amounts) are exactly what produce wealth in society.

Re:Wealth and Religion on Flickr [graph] by run4yourlives on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @11:22PM (#119428)
>Contemptuous, resentful, cheeky, mocking. ...it lends me to believe that the 1-4 things I described above simply raise people to a cynicism that won't tolerate the more obvious fairy tales.

Not to defend religion, but young people tend to be "Contemptuous, resentful, cheeky, mocking" of pretty much anything that isn't centred around their own world.

Re:Wealth and Religion on Flickr [graph] by yters on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @10:38AM (#119733)
Yes, even in Plato's Laws the speakers remark how being an atheist is a young person thing. CS Lewis was an atheist until around his late twenties.