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S.Peelman on 22 August 2016
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dark_gh0st_b0y said:
Peh said:

eh... I wouldn't make such a bold statements. 

And after checking craighopkins List, it's not accurate. For example. He listed China as 7th place. Where as Christianity in China is only 2.3-4% of it's population. But it's not a happy country. At least of what that questionable source says.

Netherlands on the other hand with 23-44% of christians is ranked as 7th. The rest of the countries are as about 70%.  But still, I don't think that this number has anything to do with why a country is being labeled as happy(?)  I presume that the reason for being happy are that those are mainly 1st world countries with a secular state. And that's the keynote here.

 

China is not even in the top20 Happiest countries, and yeah, I mean % population, so nothing to do with China really

I believe that religion is connected on how people live and how they view things, as well as each other, so of course it is connected to happiness

also, Brazil is 17th and it's poor, and the very rich Qatar, Oman, Emirates, Saudi Arabia are close (and better in economy than Europe-US btw) but not as happy

I didn't really want to respond in this thread but there you have it.

I don't want to burst your bubble, but most people here in the Netherlands and in those Northern European countries don't give jack shit about religion. We are on that list because we are some of the most prosperous countries in the world. Even the people that are statistically considered "poor", would have it pretty decent in most other places. Unlike those Arab countries, distribution of wealth is much more balanced, meaning more happy people instead of just a happy few.

Religion has absolutely no impact on the majority of people's daily lives as people do what they want with whom they want, it by law serves no role in government, it has had no impact on how we built our economy. And this is not something that's new, this sort of influence has been steadily declining for centuries now. Churches have been and are still being closed left and right, to either be demolished or repurposed into libraries, art-galleries or apartment buildings. No, and I won't debate this, but you are very wrong, christianity or religion in general is not connected to happiness here.