Materialism is the cause of the development of Atheism

Going into the final round, Pro curiously chooses to ignore my previous arguments and chooses to focus on two (largely immaterial) statements. I'll examine his counterarguments briefly and post a conclusion.>> " The fact that the Ten Commandments say "thou shall not covet…" shows that there where pre-existing issues regarding materialism."Which one would indeed expect if I am correct in the assertion that materialism causes theism.>> "Impatiens or ignorant would led people to forceful try to obtain materialistic things rather than wait for their faith to provide."So, to summarize... Pro contends that a proscription against coveting your neighbor's goods proves that materialism causes atheism. Right.>> "Once another faith that allowed someone to do whatever it was that they were forbidden to do in their other faith, they would convert, or become atheist."Unwarranted assumption.>> "If you lived in a community that forced you to be a certain faith that caused you to be unhappy and miserable, once it became socially acceptable to become atheist, would you?"Unwarranted assumption. Plus, contradicted by Pro's later statement that conversion is an equally plausible course of action.>> "The reason people (In the scientific community) try to prove/disprove, with scientific evidence weather a god exist, is for reassurance."Unwarranted assumption. Pro is in no position to describe why scientists do things. It's doubtful that a scientist would say that he participates in science to reassure himself that materialism is ok - it's far more likely that scientists participate in science for its own sake. And furthermore, this doesn't really have anything to do with the resolution.>> "Because society was (is in some places) religious based, atheism developed to adjust to social change"Yet another... you guessed it... unwarranted assumption. Plus, Pro admitted before that religion changes with society ("religion only reformed when necessary, to keeps its appeal to the people.")... so Pro himself has rendered this an entirely moot point.>> " atheism developed to adjust to social change, a society that could focus on material things ( a materialistic community)." Finishing the quote above... Pro destroys his own argument here. He states that social change occurred, and that social change was to disregard religion (atheism), and thus, the society could focus on material things. So Pro's own conclusion is that atheism leads to materialism, not the other way around. **************************************************************************Pro has left unaddressed the post hoc ergo propter hoc and cum hoc ergo propter hoc arguments from the very beginning of the debate.Pro has also failed to establish a case for his side of the issue, instead choosing to provide some very strange conjecture about society and its interaction with religion.Pro has failed to clearly articulate his position: several of his statements support the proposition that atheism causes materialism, or even that materialism causes theism.And last, Pro has failed to produce counterarguments to statistical evidence that his position is simply incorrect. Readers, this debate is very clear. The resolution has been, and was from the start:NEGATED.