Cyber Atheists engaged in a massive form of group-think last week as they celebrated the results of a study that, likely, none of them read.
The study finds that “Less than half of Icelanders claim they are religious and more than 40% of young Icelanders identify as atheist…93.9% of Icelanders younger than 25 believed the world was created in the big bang, 6.1% either had no opinion or thought it had come into existence through some other means and 0.0% believed it had been created by God.”
Firstly, on the surface it is a false dichotomy to separate “the big bang” from “created by God” as the big bang can refer to God’s creative act. However, they are obviously asserting a big bang whereby no one caused nothing to explode for no reason.
Now, “The poll, which was conducted by the polling firm Maskína on behalf of Siðmennt, The Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association, an association of Icelandic atheists.
It is interesting that Atheists do not seem to even consider it the least bit suspect and are otherwise not skeptical about the fact that the study was conducted “on behalf of” Humanist and Atheist organizations.
I referred to “a study that, likely, none of them read” and include myself therein as the study, found here, has not, as far as I know, not been translated into English.
When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing – they believe in anything—GK Chesterton
Now, fascinatingly, the very same article to which Atheists are referring also notes, “the ancient Sumerian religion Zuism become the fastest growing religion in Iceland.”
I have noted for some time now that Atheism is neo-Pagan, see here.
Zuism is being popularized, in part, due to local Icelandic political and economic issues and it is, in fact, a neo-Pagan religion that worships Sumerian deities such as Anu, Enlil, Enki, Ninhursag, Nanna, Utu, and Inanna.
Activist Atheists in general have become caricatures of themselves as, in this case, they celebrate the supposed rise in Atheism in Iceland even whilst Atheists are officially, for one or another reason, becoming neo-Pagan (and were actually neo-Pagan before the popularizing of Zuism.