Belief in God in U.S. dips to 81%, a new low
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this isn't just a US thing at all. nor did I say everyone wouldn't be religious. but it's clearly a thing.
Seems like the numbers were 37% in the last big poll done in 2019. But I think it's kinda hard to judge here since most people have such a casual relationship with religion. But one of the least religious countries out there.
Damn, my penchant for linear interpolation (and extrapolation) has led me astray!
But, honestly, those data points are far too spread out to make even that claim ("there was little movement for a long time"). We know nothing about how it might have moved up and down in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. And a lot of stuff happened in those decades.
Sorry, but your post was incredibly US or at the very least western centric.
The idea that boomers dying out will have a massive impact on GLOBAL religion is nonsense.
not really, imo. yes, islam/christianity is going strong around the globe and other religions too. but overall, if your supposition that somehow millenials/gen-y/alpha in other countries are somehow vastly different and unique then those in the west, that is indeed westernised nonsense on your end. we can agree to disagree there. this is all education and cascading effects therein. you'll see in time.
Your posts had no solid basis and was projecting your view of the US onto the world, no need to spin that back at me.
The "boomer" generation has already left it's mark enough for it to carry over for a long while, too, even if its true that younger people are less likely to be religiously affiliated in many countries.
It's kinda sad the whole "In god we trust" situation started simply started to separate us from the communists.
In God We Trust - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
That's not really what the linked article is saying.
80% of the most powerful nation on earth takes 2000 year old orders from an imaginary wizard???
hmmm...
hmmm...
That may have been Henry's motivation, but broadly a lot of the people pushing protestantism in the UK were fervent believers and extremely zealous. A lot of catholics were murdered. By the end of the civil war the country was run by extremely religious nutters.
Look at the issue with James II, deposed because he was Catholic.
Britain, like most of Europe was a very debut country until recently. We just seem to have dropped it all much faster than in the US.
My wife and kids are Jewish and there are a couple of atheists in the Synagogue we used to belong to. It doesn't seem to be that unusual
That's generally described as being culturally religious. Not that unusual at all. Now whether those people would openly label themselves as atheist (or in a case of a poll like this, affirm a lack of belief in God) is another matter, especially in the United States.
Anectdotal, but here in Scotland, I don't know anyone who believes. Well apart from a couple of family members who are over 70.
American is obsessed with religion to a really unhealthy degree.
In politics being openly atheist is a death sentence, polls show that atheists are not trusted by voters.
In politics being openly atheist is a death sentence, polls show that atheists are not trusted by voters.
I've been wondering about same thing too, but in comparison with Nordic countries. They are among the most godless countries in the world, despite having literal legally defined state churches. In case on my home country Finland I think that the national church being part of the state bureaucracy has effectively defanged it, and almost entire nation being just Lutherans means that Finnish secularism has always been more about freedom FROM religion instead of freedom OF religion.
I personally really love it how little religion matters here, I can't imagine living somewhere where pretending to be religious would be expectation.
Honestly it boggles my mind how so many people can believe in god or any religion in this day and age. And I don't even subscribe to the whole Big Bang theory, I just don't think anyone knows and will ever really know how we are here but Earth is definitely not the centre of the universe and we are not special. Even if there is an all seeing deity that created everything (and I don't believe that's the case either personally but I'm not going to sit here and pretend I know better than anyone else), they don't know or care about us in any way shape or form.
The weird part is that they don't even listen to their imaginary friend. If they actually did listen to the wizard from 2000 years ago, they probably wouldn't be:
- Bombing innocent civilians for oil
- Separating immigrant children from families and locking them in cages
- Letting children get shot at school
- Bankrupting people for minor illness or injury
- Executing innocent people for crimes they didn't commit
I'm not. America is literally teetering on becoming a de facto Theocracy.
Interesting map. The Czechs are taking the lead. Also interesting that Hungary is quite low despite orban pushing a "Christian rights" agenda.
Any idea if this is just about believing in the christian god or all religion? I'm surprised to see Germany so low. I would have expected at least 75% from them.
Although maybe a lot of people say they're atheist because they're scared the wrong person overhears and the government starts knocking on their door to collect "outstanding" church tax. It's disgusting for me that the german government is levying a church tax on behalf of religious institutions.
Probably about believing in God/higher power in general. In case of Finland, according to research done in 2015, 33% of Finns believes in the God of Christianity, 19% believes in some kind of God but not the way church teaches, 14% are agnostics, 7% are doubters leaning towards disbelief, 23% are atheists and 3% didn't want to say.
I'm not sure why those other questions would matter when they are asking if people believe in a god. People can believe in a god without going to church or practicing a certain religion. Though, I'm not sure it matters whether they are practicing or not when it comes to things like how they vote and such.
All religion. This is the source:
Eastern and Western Europeans Differ on Importance of Religion, Views of Minorities, and Key Social Issues
The European continent today is split in public attitudes toward religion, minorities and social issues such as gay marriage and legal abortion.
www.pewresearch.org
Bolsonaro won in Brazil (my country) because of evangelicals and many people died for it plus Amazon rainforest is being destroyed... so yeah, I don't care about people being "mean" on a board. Their damage is much bigger.
I've seen the history Channel. I know they God is the title of leader of the angelic race of aliens. The ones who stranded here on earth and altered the DNA of our ancestors in order to establish a supply of labor to harvest rare earth metals in order to repair their ship and move on.
An America with the majority not believing there are eternal consequences for their actions? Woof. Dangerous times ahead for our selfish lot.
Eh, that's due to language. God is supposed to be above having a gender/sex and the Holy Spirit is often ascribed as having feminine traits. Jesus was clearly male though. We actually just had this discussion in Mass last week, lol.