In Europe, I think it's safe to say religion is pretty much dead, other than the Muslim immigrants, no one really practices a religion.

In the US and Canada, religion is practiced more, and people attend church a lot more.

What you think?

the ammount of religion practiced in an area is inversely proportional to the level of education.

thusly sub saharan africa is extremely superstitious and poor, and singapore has world class biotech research establishments and is rich.

Travel outside of any major city in the US, and you will be shocked at the immense amount and public display of faith. Once you're outside the cities, you can't escape it. Christianity is everywhere in the US where urbanites aren't.

quote:Originally posted by TheKillerMonkey:

In Europe, I think it's safe to say religion is pretty much dead, other than the Muslim immigrants, no one really practices a religion.

In the US and Canada, religion is practiced more, and people attend church a lot more.

What you think?

Its certainly diminishing at a rapid pace... Nonetheless, there will always be 'religion' because its hardwired in man to worship something, whether it be God, false gods, money, nature, etc...

"Religion," if used loosely, can be used to describe almost any social device that fulfills the basic human need to pay reverence to an idea. Stalin abolished much of the religious institutions in Russia and created a 'Religion of State,' a cult of personality. In modern Europe, ideas about public service and politics fill in some of the void left by the death of religious attendance. It's almost never a matter of "whether" you worship, instead it's "what."

quote:Originally posted by Sephiroth:

a cult of personality.

That's a great song.

quote:Originally posted by TheKillerMonkey:

In Europe, I think it's safe to say religion is pretty much dead, other than the Muslim immigrants, no one really practices a religion.

In the US and Canada, religion is practiced more, and people attend church a lot more.

What you think?

Yes Im Roman Catholic.

I have yet to find a poll suggesting that more than 10% of Americans are Atheist. Furthermore, I have found polls suggesting that a mere 3% of Americans are Atheist. Granted, this is increasing, but religion is still alive and well.

Also, a study recently conducted by my University found that Atheists are America's most distrusted minority.

Link: http://tinyurl.com/p6npl

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religion is dead in the west. people may try to act relgious, but they know very well that they do not practice what they preach. the louder they preach, the more skeletons they are hiding. only places in the west where religion is still practiced are amish communities.

quote:Originally posted by postdiluvium:

religion is dead in the west. people may try to act relgious, but they know very well that they do not practice what they preach. the louder they preach, the more skeletons they are hiding. only places in the west where religion is still practiced are amish communities.

That's not true, just because the people you know maybe hypocrites doesn't mean it's dead in "the west". First of all, what do you mean with "the west", and what knowledge do you have of other countries? Or for that matter of the people who live in your own. You would probably be shocked by how religious people still are.

quote:Originally posted by TheKillerMonkey:

In Europe, I think it's safe to say religion is pretty much dead, other than the Muslim immigrants, no one really practices a religion.

In the US and Canada, religion is practiced more, and people attend church a lot more.

What you think?

I think you should spit up some evidence to back this up. You're just making assumptions here.

quote:Originally posted by Fza:

I think you should spit up some evidence to back this up. You're just making assumptions here.

On the US census around about 60% if Americans said they go to church once a week, prehaps it's blind faith, it I'm not talking about the significance of what they're doing. It was a similar number for Canada. Europe was much lower, around 7-8%

I'll get links.

On one hand you have a lot of evangelicals and such who are going to tell you that half of the christians in the United States aren't real christians. On the other hand you still have a lot of people who do believe in a higher power or deity. Religion will always be a cultural universal.

I don't think religion is dead in europe cos...

look at places like armenia, all those eastern orthodox countries and maybe greece and italy.

Haha, the thought of an Atheistic Theocracy...

quote:Originally posted by jsaxton14:

Also, a study recently conducted by my University found that Atheists are America's most distrusted minority.



I agree with that. I've seen many a christian go pale and cross themselves when I told them I was an atheist. Of course, in one case I had to clear up some confusion that atheism was one of the smaller churches of christ, that being left out of his religious education.

If europe has more atheists I may have to move, I have a feeling the dark ages are coming back in the smaller towns here in arizona.

Duck, it gets worse in Kentucky. I live in Northern KY, near Cincinnati, but south near TN and the like, it's UBERreligious... I have in-laws like that down there... fucking redneck hillbilly religious retards...