A fascinating read.
On the Internet, the average user is younger than the average individual, but most religious and spiritual arguments take place on social networking sites or message boards, the types of website's that are overwhelmingly dominated by younger users. It follows then that one of the things contributing to the abnormal distaste for religion online is that younger people feel more strongly about disliking religion and/or Christianity than other demographic groups, and that these websites only exasperate this.
Source: Jordan LeDoux: Why It's Cool To Be Anti-Christian & Anti-Religion
Jordan is a Christian playing defense in a game where he has a 50 point lead. He's subtly perpetuating the "Christianity is under attack" myth. He starts his argument with his assessment that Internet users are in general younger, and that younger Americans tend to be unchurched. Well... that's a nice thought, but I don't think it will hold up to close scrutiny. Epically when one considers the ratio of Christian to Atheist blogs is above 500 to 1.
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Well said. It always amazes me when Christians try to come up with things like then, then a ten second search on Technorati (try tag Philosophy) returns hundreds of youngsters with Christian supporting blogs.
ReplyDeleteThe little graphic that reads "Many people use science to argue philosophy" has successfully raised my ire.
ReplyDeleteLeDoux has now been added to my bookmarks file called "Current Targets."
I have posted a response if you would like to see it:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jordanledoux.com/2007/01/there_is_only_one_policy_deny.html
I have read Jordan's post. I won't be too hard on him as it is just a blog post. It is however, written in some semblance of an essay and does give the appearance of a structured attempt at answering the question he posed.
ReplyDeleteSo I will note briefly that his assertions/arguements are weakly supported, when I can determine what they are(disappointing from a college student)and his writing verbose and unclear.
And he does not answer his own question?
Why are you engaging in discussion with him, easy sport?