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Mar 1, 2002

Another of these facts is how our youths are raised. According to the survey, the young, middle-aged and elderly are religious at respectively 59%, 56% and 63%. More data would be necessary to analyze this trend, but if this is a generational phenomenon, then there is hope that average religiosity will decline with time.

In the final analysis, one particular comment by the ignorant writer of the report is perhaps the most revealing. She is concerned that religiosity is being considered less important than "the impact of new technologies, scientific developments such as human cloning and economic theory that seems to assert the deification of the market". Yet it would be shameful if we forsook all these great hopes for mankind in exchange for old superstitions.

This, in a nutshell, is the battle between atheism and religion, the more profound repercussions : the choice between progress and life, or theological morass and regression into magical thinking. The battle lines may be blurry, but the fundamental choice is clearer than ever.

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