According to Pew, 3.1% of the US population is atheist so if most sane people are atheists, then you are claiming at least 93.8% of the US is insane. By any reasonable definition of insane that is just wrong but I presume you meant something else. At any rate, that statement to me comes across as quite prejudiced.
The original post was using “sane” to mean something closer to x-rational and highly effective, rather than sane in the conventional sense - I probably should have used quote marks to emphasise this. I’ll edit my comment.
Atheists/agnostics are highly overrepresented at the far end of the bell curve − 93% of Nobel prize winning scientists are atheist/agnostic.
According to google’s first results, between 13% to 7% of Americans are atheist or agnostic. Also, somewhere between 20% to 30% is simply unaffiliated—whatever that means. Atheism/agnosticism correlates with education/intelligence at the upper levels of the latter.
When you include transhumanism and the sim argument it becomes even more complex—technically I guess I’m a deist.
According to Pew, 3.1% of the US population is atheist so if most sane people are atheists, then you are claiming at least 93.8% of the US is insane. By any reasonable definition of insane that is just wrong but I presume you meant something else. At any rate, that statement to me comes across as quite prejudiced.
http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/americas-changing-religious-landscape/
The original post was using “sane” to mean something closer to x-rational and highly effective, rather than sane in the conventional sense - I probably should have used quote marks to emphasise this. I’ll edit my comment.
Atheists/agnostics are highly overrepresented at the far end of the bell curve − 93% of Nobel prize winning scientists are atheist/agnostic.
According to google’s first results, between 13% to 7% of Americans are atheist or agnostic. Also, somewhere between 20% to 30% is simply unaffiliated—whatever that means. Atheism/agnosticism correlates with education/intelligence at the upper levels of the latter.
When you include transhumanism and the sim argument it becomes even more complex—technically I guess I’m a deist.