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How dare you include Thailand - Have you SEEN Suvannarbhumi airport??
Yes, it's awesome but I'm talking about the majority of people in these countries. The palaces of the oil rich sheiks in the UAE hardly reflect the everyday life of the citizens there.
The whole point of this thread was that religion is losing ground because of education. So Golden is only helping to make the OP's point by showing that religion is gaining ground only in uneducated and impoverished parts of the globe.
The whole point of this thread was that religion is losing ground because of education. So Golden is only helping to make the OP's point by showing that religion is only gaining ground in uneducated and impoverished parts of the globe.
That's why the Catholic Church is so aggressive in less developed countries.
This is a thread about religion in the US. PLEASE stay on topic! (On topic does not include airports or Asian countries.)
...but...but those countries were given to debunk GldnRain's claim that....
...the current heaviest growth in Religion is Atheist to Religious conversions in "parts of Asia" where there is good education and the standard of living is very high (like Shanghai, China & Hong Kong)..there is good education and the standard of living is very high (like Shanghai, China & Hong Kong)...this is proof that claims of greater appeal to poor and ignorant, or any overall decline in Religion, are not accurate.'
And this is why the rabid religious right is going whole hog into home schooling.
Yes. They understand that free and unfettered access to information is toxic to their fundamentalism.
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The only place that religion is on the increase is in Africa and parts of Asia. In other words, places where education and living standard are low.
Which also encouraged rapid population growth. Thus, those places that are fully developed and educated are much less fertile ground for the nonsense of religion. So whatever 'growth' of religion exists is merely the result of, as you say, impoverished people with no access to birth control or information about reproductivity.
On a relative basis, the same is true in places that are developed and have first-world access to information and items. It's not sheer coincidence that the American Bible Belt is where fundamentalism and poverty both occur at higher levels than in any other part of the country. It's also where the most effort is put into shutting down information, by trying and foist things like 'intelligent design' and 'abstinence-only' nonsense on their young so those young will be shielded from the realities of biological evolution and how normal sexually active people can be normal and sexually active and still avoid pregnancies.
Yes, this thread is about a religious study done in the US, by a Foundation created in the US, and working in the US. Please stop trying to drag the thread off topic.
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Originally Posted by mensaguy
This is a thread about religion in the US. PLEASE stay on topic! (On topic does not include airports or Asian countries.)
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Originally Posted by Rafius
...but...but those countries were given to debunk GldnRain's claim that....
...the current heaviest growth in Religion is Atheist to Religious conversions in "parts of Asia" where there is good education and the standard of living is very high (like Shanghai, China & Hong Kong)..there is good education and the standard of living is very high (like Shanghai, China & Hong Kong)...this is proof that claims of greater appeal to poor and ignorant, or any overall decline in Religion, are not accurate.'
Point made. The Pew Research Center seldom does any polling outside the US. Therefore, when they are mentioned at the beginning of a thread, the odds are great that the thread will deal with the US. All of you, please report any off topic posts. We'll do our best to deal with them.
Religion appeals to most everyone, no matter who...for thousands of years.
The current heaviest growth in Religion is Atheist to Religious conversions in "parts of Asia" where there is good education and the standard of living is very high (like Shanghai, China & Hong Kong)...this is proof that claims of greater appeal to poor and ignorant, or any overall decline in Religion, are not accurate. Which is my main point.
Most people love Religion...they have, they do, and they will.
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Have you SEEN Suvannarbhumi airport??
