Thursday, April 12, 2007

"AS RELIGIOUS STIFE GROWS, EUROPE'S ATHEISTS SEIZE PULPIT" from the Wall Street Journal...


According to Michel Onfray, a famous French philosopher, a new phenomenom is happening in Europe, called the Atheism. Actually, this new phenomenom is growing very fast, leaving Europe's churches mostly empty.
In fact, the religion has become a real problem in the society, because of the anxiety over Europe's growing and restive Muslim populations and also, a fear that faith is reasserting itself in politics and public policy. This is why, Europe is stuggling between belief and nonbelief, involving a battle to define the identity of a continent.
Europe's atheist campagners have also made a splash in America, leading to some antireligious treatise, such as "God is not great : How religion poisons everything", written by Christopher Hitchens, a British atheist....

This article, is very complex, because it's difficult to talk about religions, knowing that each person has his own conviction. But it's true, that more and more, the world has been touched by a new kind of belief, which is the atheism !! The atheism is not considered as a religion, but as the fact to do not beleive on god !! It's become a kind of problem, especially in Europe, because more and more people, choose this new phenomenon and make some campaigns in order to promote their ideas, criticizing the other religions !

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