Player1x3 said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Norway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Sweden#Religion_in_Sweden_today http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Denmark#Overview http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Iceland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Finland#Currently http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Germany#Christianity_2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Italy Seriously, what the hell were you thinking saying Italy isnt religious ???? Its the heart of catholic church http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Greece Once again, WTF??? Greece, one of the most religious countries in the world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Spain#Attitudes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands#Religion Close, but still majority http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Belgium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Portugal once again, waaaay off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_France#Statistics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_russia#Adherents Again, you are waaay off. Seriously, how can you call Russia atheist country? Where the hell do you get your data from???? |
"estimates atheism rates in Norway as ranging from 31 to 72%, based on various studies."
"several academic sources who have in recent years placed atheism rates in Sweden between 46% and 85%"
"According to Zuckerman (2005),[11] 28-60% of Finns are agnostics, atheists, or non-believers."
"A December 2006 poll by Harris Interactive, published in The Financial Times, found that 32% of the French population described themselves as agnostic, a further 32% as atheist and only 27% believed in any type of God or supreme being."
"Using these numbers, one attempt to estimate numbers of practising followers of different religions in Russia arrives at the following results: 3-15 million Russian Orthodox; 2.8 million Muslim; over 1.5 million Protestant (including at least 900 thousand Pentecostals); no more than 500 thousand Buddhists; 300 thousand followers of New religious movements; 60-200 thousand Roman Catholic; 50-80 thousand Old Believers." Do you call that a religious majority in a population of around 100 million? Lay off the exclamation marks and start reading the links yourself before having a fit.
Your link with Russia in it simply states what I've been saying all along; there are a lot of people who are members of a church. Heck, I'm a member in the state church! Does that mean I'm religious? No, no it doesn't. Learn to differentiate and go deeper.
Different studies produce different results, its not as black and white as you think. When it comes to Scandinavia, the majority of the population do not believe in a god or deity and the number of religious people per inhabitant shrinks every year. The rest of the countries I mentioned suffer from the same polling problems; different studies, different results. When data varies from 25-80% and more, can you really use it for anything meaningful? No, your wikipedia links are pretty much useless. Did you even read them or check more in depth with other sources? Religion is not as big and mighty as you seem to think and most people aren't personally religious, they're simply members of a state church out of tradition, respect etc. The Western world as a whole is most agnostic or atheist, its just the way it is, we don't live in medieval times any more. You simply made a thread about this one study because it made a conclusion you liked, there are thousands of studies on this subject and they all give off very variable data.