Religion May Become Extinct In Nine Nations

Posted by JacobSloan on March 27, 2011

Not to imply a causal relationship, but the nine countries pinpointed to become religion-free are among the healthiest, happiest, and most prosperous in the world — shouldn’t God be giving them a dose of wrath as comeuppance? BBC News reports:

A study using census data from nine countries shows that religion there is set for extinction, say researchers. The result, reported at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas, US, indicates that religion will all but die out altogether in those countries.

The team took census data stretching back as far as a century from countries in which the census queried religious affiliation: Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.

The team’s mathematical model attempts to account for the interplay between the number of religious respondents and the social motives behind being one.

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i guess i missed that convo with god– glad you didn’t

you hear a lot of voices in your head?
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pyramid has four sides …
just sayin’
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shhh– don’t let facts interfere with his delusion …

or her– don’t mean to be sexist.
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isn’t christmas just a revisionism of pagan solstice celebrations? wasn’t historical jesus born in April– or was it May?
maybe November … ?
then there’s the whole vernal equinox Eostre thingy …
and Zoroaster/ Mithra parallels, no?
read your Joseph Campbell peoples.
might as well invest yourself in the Star Wars mythos.
Manwhocouldfly

I think that spirituality is hugely important to the happiness of an individual. It’s not like the western world has done such a great job since it institutionalized science in the place of religion. . .

. . .basically, the bottom line is that the default state for people tends to be ‘happy,’ but the default state for a domesticated human being who is in many ways subservient to the systems his / her society imposed upon them is ‘unhappy’

People who get rid of religion in order to worship the uber-rational science don’t really fare any better than religious goons when it comes to realizing themselves an achieving self respect, confidence, control, and happiness.

Either way, they are both myths. Science is as much of a myth as religion is- it just explains itself a helluva lot better than religion does in the material world that we live in.

I’m wary of anybody or anything that externalizes perfection or ideals. . .
Manwhocouldfly

I think that spirituality is hugely important to the happiness of an individual. It’s not like the western world has done such a great job since it institutionalized science in the place of religion. . .

. . .basically, the bottom line is that the default state for people tends to be ‘happy,’ but the default state for a domesticated human being who is in many ways subservient to the systems his / her society imposed upon them is ‘unhappy’

People who get rid of religion in order to worship the uber-rational science don’t really fare any better than religious goons when it comes to realizing themselves an achieving self respect, confidence, control, and happiness.

Either way, they are both myths. Science is as much of a myth as religion is- it just explains itself a helluva lot better than religion does in the material world that we live in.

I’m wary of anybody or anything that externalizes perfection or ideals. . .
Gayman

Aw whats the matter are we telling you not to suck dick for crack?
Holindahed

let me guess.. lol.. you’re humanist.
Faux_box

Once could just hope it disappears altogether……
Faux_box

Once could just hope it disappears altogether……
Anonymous

Communism is a religion. Socialism is a religion. Environmentalism is a religion. Democracy, Capitalism, Protectionism, Free Trade, Racism, Anti-Racism, The Big Bang. Etc. All are beliefs which propagate through groups. All requite adherents to take most of their tenents on faith, as no one person can test every assumption rigorously. At best, we test a few and assume the rest are correct. Most people defend these beliefs irrationally in the face of evidence to the contrary. Most people keep their unorthodox doubts concealed in order to get along with larger groups of believers.

“Religion” isn’t dying out. It’s fragmenting, and the fragments overlap. We all subscribe to multiple religions every day. The belief in God/Gods is just one of these beliefs that addresses a specific set of human spiritual needs. Some of the organizations that provide these answers may fall, but the needs (and those that service them) will live on. Because there are limits to what science (which has it’s own religious dogmas) can explain.
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I think it is not show as you write. Religion is the faith which never be extinct.
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It the bad for the human beings, because religion is faith. If there is no religion therefor there is no faith.

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Anonymous

Basically Religion has been respect in the Nine Nation and should be respect every religion.
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Anonymous

Basically every country may be approves religion extinct in nine nation.
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Anonymous

yes religion is respect in somewhere .every religion should be respect in every country.
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Enigman69

Here’s the thing. The anti-religionists, atheists, hate any religion. But they can’t prove that God does not exist so they have to belittle God to the rest of us. And when that fails, they then belittle us. So just what is it about God that scares the hell out of them anyway?
desa

I’ve met religious Christians from most of these countries. No doubt there are plenty of Jews, Muslims, and other religions too.
Anonymous

Basically every religion should be respect in the nine nation .firstly everyone have been the right to expression and feeling to other person.
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