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Religion May Become Extinct In Nine Nations

Posted by JacobSloan on March 27, 2011

chrchNot 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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  • Mattman

    except god never said Nietzsche is dead, because god doesn’t exist.

  • Robot Alien

    I think someone is having you on…….hahaha

  • Antoniomorales915

    australia and new zealand do celebrate christmas
    christmas is to celebrate Jesus birth not to celebrate him dying for our sins

  • Antoniomorales915

    Canada 72% Christian
    Australia 64% Christian
    Finland 78% Christian
    Austria 76% Christian
    Ireland 86.6% Christian
    New Zealand 60% Christian
    Switzerland 82% Christian
    extinct yeah right

  • Antoniomorales915

    Canada 72% Christian
    Australia 64% Christian
    Finland 78% Christian
    Austria 76% Christian
    Ireland 86.6% Christian
    New Zealand 60% Christian
    Switzerland 82% Christian
    extinct yeah right

  • Antoniomorales915

    Canada 72% Christian
    Australia 64% Christian
    Finland 78% Christian
    Austria 76% Christian
    Ireland 86.6% Christian
    New Zealand 60% Christian
    Switzerland 82% Christian
    extinct yeah right

  • odjrsmitty

    Now we just need nations, politicians, and money to go extinct.

  • MLC

    A person would have to know everything there is to know in the universe to be absolutely sure that God doesn’t exist. Since no person has that knowledge, no one can honestly say with certainty that God isn’t real. Hence, atheism is an untenable position and the person who states unequivocally that God isn’t real is believing something he or she cannot prove which isn’t particularly reasonable even though they believe themselves to be the most reasonable of people.

    On the other hand, there are a number of rational, intelligent and valid evidences for the existence of God including cosmological, teleological, and axiological arguments. Check out pleaseconvinceme.com for more information.

  • http://www.newsblok.com newsblok.com

    “When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.” – Robert M. Pirsig

    Very true.

    Newsblok – feeding headlines from 18 of the best alternative news sources to one simple page. Includes disinfo, abovetopsecret, counterpunch and many more

  • Joanarbil

    so true

  • Errex

    brb new zealand

  • Potricio

    ¿Irlanda?. No se lo creen ni ellos. Que tontería de noticia.

  • http://www.facebook.com/m.k.winemiller Megan Winemiller

    Biblical son of a fictional deity.

    It kills me that religious people can’t ever get that fact straight, it seems.

    I mean, by worshiping Jesus instead of ‘God’, wouldn’t that be considered worshiping a false idol or something along those lines?

    I don’t really know, nor do I really care; it’s just that it’s always confused me so.

  • http://www.facebook.com/m.k.winemiller Megan Winemiller

    Biblical son of a fictional deity.

    It kills me that religious people can’t ever get that fact straight, it seems.

    I mean, by worshiping Jesus instead of ‘God’, wouldn’t that be considered worshiping a false idol or something along those lines?

    I don’t really know, nor do I really care; it’s just that it’s always confused me so.

  • BibleBeltAtheist

    I have been religion free since I was 13, and am now 62. Problem is, everybody in the USA is exposed to & effected by religious, dogmatic, crap just like side stream tobacco smoke. And just like nicotine addicts, religion has people harnessed to their insidious “habit” like a draft animal with blinders on with it’s nose & mouth in the feed bag gobbling up horse shit.

  • Felis

    Just to clarify (or possibly confuse further) – when Christinans talk about God, they often refer to the three “faces”; that’s where all that “the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit”-talk comes in. My interpretation is that they should all be seen as three sides to the same coin (or pyramid, I guess) but essentially the same being. Kind of nifty device since it lets you get around both the polytheistic vibes and the false idol stuff. Then again, there’s definitiely a dissonace when you’re referring to Jesus as the son of God but I guess organized religion never has been big on continuity.

  • Felis

    There doesn’t have to be any correlation between “active” spirituality/religion and the celebration of religious holidays. Our religious history has been well enough integrated into our culture and values to survive without any actual belief in any kind of deity. I’ll bet that a lot of people who celebrate Christmas religiously (pun most def intended) could care less about the Jesus side of it. I for one enjoy Christmas and even go to mass every year – that doesn’t make me less of an atheist, it just means I’m interested in my own history and happen to like nice stories about camels, men in beards and babies being born. Celebrating traditional holidays does not mean you actually believe in a higher power.

  • Godsfriend

    Correction: For man to define God is to dwarf the true idea of God itself . . . Basic Ideas of Occult Wisdom . . . Michael the “man” has his physical reality to experience . . . judge and ponder . . . he will grow old and die doing so because he believes in time . . The New Man knows he “projects” this reality you refer to as “physical” . . . . creating it from the “inside” to the “outside” . . . and experiences it in the “now” . . . no place called future . . . no place called “past” . . only “now” . . . no time/ illusion . . . I love God . . I love Nietzsche . . . I love . ……. I am . . . . . now

  • Godsfriend

    Doesn’t exist for you “Mattman” . . . . you prefer to cling to the opinion you have , to make everything as easy as possible for yourself. . Enjoy ‘time’ Mattman . . . God doesn’t know ‘time’ . . . and God hasn’t been introduced to Mattman so God doesn’t know Mattman . . . perfection . . . perfection . . love is . . I am . . now . . . I am eternal . . . I am in joy . . .

  • Ma’at

    ’bout damned time.

    Mankind has lived in this fantasy world long enough.

  • Guest

    In some countries, suicide is a crime. Therefore, a person would forfeit all of their assets to the state, or a good portion. If the person had kids, or wanted to leave something to someone, then they could not. That and the extra stigma attached to families with a suicide. Freer countries don’t necessarily have the same social mores and legal statutes that would make suicide even more painful.

  • http://www.inzencareerservices.be Horeca Jobs

    What about Belgium ……. ??

  • DrinkyMcGee

    I’m not encouraged. There are a substantial number of people who replace their belief in an organized religion with a belief in vast conspiracy theories or aliens or trolls or whatever. It’s like there’s a bucket in the human mind specifically meant to be filled with bullshit. People free of religion are still people, and history teaches us that people kind of suck.

  • Wiicamper

    And here I thought christmas was to celebrate materialism. I dont know many people anymore that celebrate some imaginary timeless sky man who fathered himself to die to absolve sin that was placed on man by him.

    Everyone I know celebrates christmas by celebrating friends and family, not Jesus

  • Lonnieblakley

    Hay can I have some of whatever your smoking?

  • http://twitter.com/Cretaceous_one Ambulo cetus

    “on almost every measure of societal health, the least religious countries are
    better off than the most religious. Countries like Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and the
    Netherlands—which are the most atheistic societies on earth—consistently rate better than religious nations on measures like life expectancy, infant mortality, crime, literacy,
    GDP, child welfare, economic equality, economic competitiveness, gender equality,
    health care, investments in education, rates of university enrollment, internet access,
    environmental protection, lack of corruption, political stability, and charity to poorer
    nations, etc.”

    The Moral Landscape – Sam Harris

  • Anonymous

    God is a Vagina, hence “Jesus remember me when I come into your kingdom”

  • Jason

    “What we’re seeing now is the pending end, across the world, of the organized religion….”

    You’re extrapolating WAY too much from these nine countries. There are a couple hundred others to look at, and they aren’t all going the same way. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing is another question.

  • Jack

    Energy cannot be created or destroyed. Man is nothing but solidfied energy or frozen energy. Man cannot be created or destroyed. When man dies, solidfied energy or frozen energy becomes active energy in the air, in the dirt or stored in animals’ body. God is irrelevant or unnecessary in this process.

  • http://twitter.com/audiotruther Audio Truther

    The end of Religion, well Amen to that > It’s all good I interviewed Yahweh aka the reincarnated Jesus yes he’s alieve and well on Earth he ain’t coming down on a white horse , and he said the End of Evil is in 2012 , but we all have to do our part to fight against the corruption. anyways as you can understand he has a lot to say about whats going on , listen below , and decide for yourself.
    http://fightthe.podomatic.com/entry/2011-02-08T22_20_10-08_00

  • Ingrum

    Irelands kind of hard to believe given how the catholics and protestants were fighting over who was right about 40ish years ago..im not saying its not very different now but i’d have thought that war would of thrown the scales off just a bit

  • Xxlmax

    Austria’s #3

  • Miri

    The thing is who made religion God or us? With the opinion that God does exist he’s not been on earth for the past 2000 years therefore we’ve made what religion it is today.

  • Zack

    I’m Australian and I’m really not sure where they get the idea that Australia is religion-free. There are churches scattered about. The pope came by a few years ago. Mosques are starting to pop up. Heck, take a walk around and you’ll find a few religious ’salesmen’.

  • Bob

    Yeah … there is hope after a long dark tunnel!!

  • RStarr

    Its just taking its true for as politcal parties

  • RStarr

    Its just taking its true for as politcal parties

  • Agnostic

    man made religion. duh. anything that is completely effed up was made by man.

  • Madpoet0

    HFS,
    death by disinterest.
    ISN
    666

  • Labpup223

    what you don’t understand is that is that God doesn’t want us to be “religious”. He only wants a relationship with us. Jesus/God never set foot in a church and spent his life helping those who were dying, poor, training others to help the hurting souls of this earth. I am sad that you have such a convoluted image of Jesus/God. You obviously never have understood who God really is. Hopefully you will decide to seek who God is and not what others have told you he is, because you obviously haven’t done this on your own.

  • John

    You like to blow goat penis don’t you?

  • John

    YOUR a vagina! A whores vagina!

  • Munchy

    You talk silly

  • Munchy

    You talk silly

  • http://www.facebook.com/GTBurns Gary Burnaska

    The only church that is any worth being a part of is the Church of the Subgenius, because they offer Eternal Salvation or Triple your money back.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XFMMVBQQFHSWBLHZR5T74P564E memries

    Ruby Tuesday’s has a salad bar?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XFMMVBQQFHSWBLHZR5T74P564E memries

    “Heathen Ledger is dead”– laws of nature, time, whatever … ?
    just sayin’ champ ;-)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XFMMVBQQFHSWBLHZR5T74P564E memries

    don’t bogart — hit it and quit it yo.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XFMMVBQQFHSWBLHZR5T74P564E memries

    so god is NOT omniscient?
    i mean, if he needs a formal introduction to one of his creatures … ?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XFMMVBQQFHSWBLHZR5T74P564E memries

    i’m still thinking either Canada or Costa Rica– although if their economy stabilizes after telling the UK to stuff their $4Bn demand, i’d head there– the wimmin are hawt!

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