WagnerPaiva said:
Well, America and Japan are very well educated, and they care for God. So is the case with Israel. Granted, the majority cares less because they have distractions and never really have problems or angst in which faith could help them or lead them into prayer.
But even so, education does not really do the trick, it just helps people that want some justification to forget God, since our education system worldwide is so antitheist, even teaching things that the scientifical comunity acknowledge as hoaxes 20 years ago, like the Lucie fossile or the common descent chart ( Haeckel's drawings) and things like that.
Science can help one to not feel guilty for going away from God and that I understand.
But I often think about what Francis Bacon said (and many after repeated): a little amount of science makes a person go away from God, but a great amount of knowledge and science brings a person back to God.
Most people are afraid of diving deep into evidence that may show them God exists, and some theories are desesperate atempts to take God out of the equation, like the Multiverse Theory. Funny enough that this theory implies the existence of something beyond the physical realm.
I see many so called scients stating that they would go any route, as long as it does not imply a God. So, it is not even science anymore, because real science would not ignore a possibility. When it comes to a first cause, they rather make the problem bigger and more complex than to understand that God is a necessary constant in the variables of existence.
Anyways, the notion of faith and religion being something of yockos and idiots is false, it is just something that atheists say. A lot of very brilliant men and women are theists.
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America is educated however the educated ones are more likely to not believe in god. ( Edit: I take back my previous statement as there is no clear data on that topic).
Atleast I can say that the Bible Belt is not know for their Scientific excellence.
When I google how religious is Japan it says 40% identify as religious which is the minority and 35% of them are buddhists so they are not believing in an god like abrahamic religions.
The so called Scientist will go any route other than god first because they follow the principle of occams razor. The simplest explanation is the valid one and an infinitely complex god is never the simplest explanation. Its a core principle of science.
How is god a necessary constant in the variables of existence ?
Theists per se do not necessarily believe the abrahamic religions. Also its hard to realize that religion is illogical if you have been indoctrinated since birth.
Education is important and letting kids discover religion on their own and make up their own mind is also important. If we would not teach our kids religion how many of them would later become religious ?
