Actually, the number of members of most big churches is not falling, but growing. While the numbers of members are significantly falling in the rich, western countries, worldwide they're actually increasing. And over the next decades, this trend may even become much stronger.

Many atheists have a very one-sided view of religion etc. They seem to be completely incapable of acknowledging just any positive aspect of religion, churches etc., they're only seeing the negative parts.

Take Nietzsche for example, whom you're so prominently quoting in your sig. If he hadn't been raised in a very religious environment, he most probably wouldn't have become such a remarkable critical thinker.

And just months after he published the the sentences you're quoting, he became a lunatic, incapable of doing almost anything. And once again, it was his religious environment that actually helped him most: It was his own, very religious family, his mother and sister, who got him out of the lunatic asylum and cared for him until he died about a decade later. So Nietzsche himself was actually lucky that his religious family didn't feel the same disgust about touching atheists that Nietzsche claimed about touching religious people.

My family are all atheists, sister brother uncles aunts grandparents etc.  This started with my grandad, and his influence has been felt on down. 

Personally I have a big problem with the faiths descended from Abraham for the following reasons:

-Islam - they tend to not care about terrorism or to rationalize it saying that the US, Britain, etc are hurting muslims.  Well we now have to spend much more on the military, CIA, FBI and law enforcement bc of terrorism, and we could be spending that $$$$$ on social programs or whatnot.  I have a big problem with that.

Protestants- they seem to think that bc they are christians and dont do things like drink or smoke weed, that they are superior morally and ethically to other people.  I've known plenty of Christians that pieces of Sh!t that you wouldnt want around your worst enemy, but whatever.  I dislike how they have their morality based on things like drugs, gambling, drinking, etc.  If I want to go to vegas, who the hell am I hurting?

Jews- They are kind of butthurt from the holocaust (understandable) but I dislike organized religion so I tend to talk some smack.  I'll talk the same smack about jews that I talk about other religions, and they try to call me some kind of nazi.  Fvck them.  Seriously, they can get over this, they aren't in the same group of minorities as blacks, hispanics, etc bc their level of income has historically been higher than these groups and even of white people on average.  

Catholics- I hate how the Catholics protect their own pedophile preists and just shuffle them around from Church to church and dont kick them out.  I also hate how they dont allow preists to be married, which tends to bring more molestes into the preisthood.  

I am athiest ( agnostic sometimes, who cares ) but I would rather live in a Christian country than a country without religion. The greatest country the world has ever known prospered under religion and seems to be slipping backwards the more it turns it back to it.

Ronald Reagan once said "Freedom prospers when religion (Christianity) is vibrant." I look at America's past and agree to a certain extent.
It is when religions are force to co-exist in the same country with large numbers on each side that problems arise whether they be of Abraham or mystics.

Religion can bring people together for a greater cause more than anything else. It can also tear people apart more than anything else in exsistence, even race.

My family are all atheists, sister brother uncles aunts grandparents etc.  This started with my grandad, and his influence has been felt on down. 

Personally I have a big problem with the faiths descended from Abraham for the following reasons:

-Islam - they tend to not care about terrorism or to rationalize it saying that the US, Britain, etc are hurting muslims.  Well we now have to spend much more on the military, CIA, FBI and law enforcement bc of terrorism, and we could be spending that $$$$$ on social programs or whatnot.  I have a big problem with that.

Protestants- they seem to think that bc they are christians and dont do things like drink or smoke weed, that they are superior morally and ethically to other people.  I've known plenty of Christians that pieces of Sh!t that you wouldnt want around your worst enemy, but whatever.  I dislike how they have their morality based on things like drugs, gambling, drinking, etc.  If I want to go to vegas, who the hell am I hurting?

Jews- They are kind of butthurt from the holocaust (understandable) but I dislike organized religion so I tend to talk some smack.  I'll talk the same smack about jews that I talk about other religions, and they try to call me some kind of nazi.  Fvck them.  Seriously, they can get over this, they aren't in the same group of minorities as blacks, hispanics, etc bc their level of income has historically been higher than these groups and even of white people on average.  

Catholics- I hate how the Catholics protect their own pedophile preists and just shuffle them around from Church to church and dont kick them out.  I also hate how they dont allow preists to be married, which tends to bring more molestes into the preisthood.