Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth ?

[AzariLoveIran]

[Colonel Sun]

Perhaps.

However, it's the capitalists that will inherit the mineral rights.

[Tinker]

Religious parents produce most off the world's atheists.

[Mr. Perfect]

And then in the next step, the atheists seem to have no desire to reproduce at all. I believe the process is called "evolution/natural selection".

[Tinker]

[YMix]

Should the religious inherit the Earth?

[Colonel Sun]

[skyhook77sfg]

Religiosity is directly proportional to insecurity....

both social and personal according to research.


that is why the US has high % believers

and europe's churches are empty.


like the hoi poloi chant

US NUMBER ONE

[AzariLoveIran]

[skyhook77sfg]

as stated

the less secure people are economically

ie poor social conditions and poor support nets

the more religion soothes their insecurity.

[Sparky]

Europe's disdain for religion is probably more rooted in the fact that for centuries, the various churches were instruments of state power and oppression. As land owners and tithe takers, they made their living off the toil of peasants in the fields. As guardians of the orthodoxy of their flavours of the faith, they where the Mutaween of their day, enforcing religious, behavioural and moral mores, as seen through the lens of their position as part of the establishment.

[skyhook77sfg]

while those historical details are certainly European givens,

the massive decline in believer populations that

has ocurred continent wide in the century past

cannot be attributed to hundreds of years'

earlier conditions as the main cause

but rather to more security in life here and now

as opposed to default position in the hereafter.


seem to recall a study to that effect a couple of years ago.

will try to find it somewhere somehow.