/atheism/ - Atheism

I think women are just less inclined to care about this kind of stuff. Maybe they are a lot more susceptible to group think and the desire to fit in, so they just kind of go with whatever people around them are doing. The phenomenon with the women going to church more I think is just more to stave off loneliness and socialize, and they are also more emotional so that aspect of a religion might resound more with them. Not as a serious theological argument, but just enough for them to go.

The more likely thing is that I think women are just a lot less likely to make "atheism" a part of their visible, meaningful identity. Since I don't think a lot of women really value this kind of conversation, a woman who is an atheist would simply never talk about it much.

The majority of women my age (millennials) I've spoken about this with were soft agnostics, basically not wanting to take a side, but certainly not living any specific religious tenets other than basic "killing is bad don't steal" shit.

>>13542

source?

>>13548

http://www.ncls.org.au/default.aspx?sitemapid=137

http://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12/chapter-3-demographic-profiles-of-religious-groups/pr_15-05-12_rls_chapter3-05/

In addition to what others have mentioned, I think another reason is that women are more likely than men to see the world through rose-tinted glasses.

>>13544

this

There's quite a few of them but very few have written any books that sold well enough to get them to a major spotlight.

You can find a larger sample on Youtube and an even larger sample not making any comments at all. Then again, that applies to atheists in general.

>>13564

>but to me it's clear that women's lack of participation and opportunity in intellectual spheres

I dunno. Saying "I don't belive in god" at a scientific survey or not going to church sounds neither brave nor highly intelectual.

(I'm also not a /pol/ack.)

>>13542

The corpus collosum in the female brain is markedly larger than that of a male brain (this is the link between the left and right hemispheres), making differentiation between the world as is seen by logic and the world as seen by emotion very difficult. I learned this in a "dealing with drug affected infants" class that me and my wife had to attend before starting foster care.

That being said, I don't think that the delta is that wide between females and males. They just tend to be less outspoken vs. a male or else end up being SJWs, making them less relevant to where people like me and you congregate.

>>13556

That's weird. The number of white atheists has gone from 86% in 2007 to 77% in 2014, while the other races show increases; particularly Latinos, from 5% to 10%.

Also look at the immigrant status. Immigrants have gone from 13% to 12%, but second generation immigrants are up from 8% to 15%.

Science as a source of right and wrong has gone from 15% to 27%.

http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/religious-tradition/unaffiliated-religious-nones/belief-in-god/do-not-believe-in-god/

Could all these share some causes?

>>13573

Civilization of previously not-so-civilized people.

>>13574

That was supposed to end with a question mark.

>>13573

Yes, other races are diluting the percent of whites as they too turn atheist. Women too.

>>13577

P.S. It's probably just that the other races are "catching up," economically and in education. Asian Americans are especially interesting - some groups like the Koreans & Filipinos are predominately Christian, while others like 2nd generation Vietnamese Americans are rapidly turning Atheist, even if they used to be Buddhist. Asian Americans more likely to be Atheist than latinos or blacks.

>>13564

Completely off topic but Patricia Churchland could be used in an argument about why ugly women tend to not get any of the female perks and thus are forced to compete with men and can end up being incredibly intelligent and successful. Holy shit look at her.

Women are more likely to go with the group, and even if they are irreligious of some variety they are less likely to be argumentative so are probably less likely to read atheist books, watch atheist videos, talk about atheism and theism with friends so overall more women probably stay near religion or the middle ground rather than explicitly reject religion.

Because women are dumb.

>>13677

Good work, xirs. We can screen cap this and use it as evidence that atheists are all misogynerd harassers.

>>13682

>>13677

How about a threa without this kind of nonsense.

Many atheists are neckbeards and PUAs so it's hardly surprising.

>>13830

Many strawmen come directly from your ass that's why they are shit.

>>13603

Okay.. maybe I'm just lonely and little drunk,, but Patricia Churchland is sort of attractive. and knowing the is superior mind behind those blue eyes is a turn on.

>>13833

I don't think she's that unattractive either honestly.

>>13832

Not even a shitpost, that's just weird. Look up the definition of strawman.

>>13837

Or better a ad hominem. You have no source for your claim.

>>13851

It's not ad hominem either, as the conclusion follows logically.

Nobody will have sources in this, unless there's been a study of non-atheist women asking why they aren't atheist.

>>13563

>Being an atheist has nothing to do with other atheists, it's a conclusion arrived through reason

Not necessarily, I often avoided atheist material because I fell for the edgy atheist meme and didn't read any of their arguments. Not saying the SJWs are right but atheism can come off as very treating to a lot of people before the actually understand why people are atheist