Why are Africans tend to be more religious than westerners?
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
You are not wrong. Religions have been delinquent in their duty to revise the spiritual understanding as our knowledge and understanding of ourselves and the world progressed. They stagnated at the 3rd century level of ancient ignorance and have praised that ignorance as a sign of faith ever since.
I'll go with that...
I imagine there are 4 general stages of spiritual awareness.
1. True barbarism: living day to day as an animal for selfish gain.
2. Religious: following/buying into an institution.
3. Agnosticsim/atheism: the realization that institutions are wrong and subsequently rejecting them.
4. True enlightenment: a theoretical higher perspective with a true understanding of the universe, it's interconnectedness and our place in it.
I can't get out of #3 myself, but I'm still young, and I'm working on it...
Still, I see no good reason for celebrating a progression from #1 to #2, especially when many African tribes were between #2 and #4 before colonization...
I imagine there are 4 general stages of spiritual awareness.
1. True barbarism: living day to day as an animal for selfish gain.
2. Religious: following/buying into an institution.
3. Agnosticsim/atheism: the realization that institutions are wrong and subsequently rejecting them.
4. True enlightenment: a theoretical higher perspective with a true understanding of the universe, it's interconnectedness and our place in it.
I can't get out of #3 myself, but I'm still young, and I'm working on it...
Still, I see no good reason for celebrating a progression from #1 to #2, especially when many African tribes were between #2 and #4 before colonization...
I see 3 separate possibilities for stages of spiritual Awareness, one as you put it.
1. True barbarism: living day to day as an animal for selfish gain.
2. Religious: following/buying into an institution.
3. Agnosticsim/atheism: the realization that institutions are wrong and subsequently rejecting them.
4. True enlightenment: a theoretical higher perspective with a true understanding of the universe, it's interconnectedness and our place in it.
The second:
1. True barbarism: living day to day as an animal for selfish gain.
2. Awareness of possibilities beyond the physical world
3.Concept of superior beings
4. Worship of many gods
The third:
1. True barbarism: living day to day as an animal for selfish gain.
2. Awareness of a supreme being
3. Searching for the supreme being
4. Finding that whom they have reason to believe is the Supreme being and submitting to him
There is a strong correlation with eductation and religious belief. The more you know, the more you know religion is B.S.
There might be a correlation, but there are exceptions there too. Singapore is a pretty educated society and tends to score as fairly religious. Poland's "Education Index" is listed as better than Britain's according to the UN, but they tend to come out more religious than the British.
I imagine there are 4 general stages of spiritual awareness.
1. True barbarism: living day to day as an animal for selfish gain.
2. Religious: following/buying into an institution.
3. Agnosticsim/atheism: the realization that institutions are wrong and subsequently rejecting them.
4. True enlightenment: a theoretical higher perspective with a true understanding of the universe, it's interconnectedness and our place in it.
I can't get out of #3 myself, but I'm still young, and I'm working on it...
Still, I see no good reason for celebrating a progression from #1 to #2, especially when many African tribes were between #2 and #4 before colonization...
My take from the atheist forum:
(1. = Spiritual Infancy)
1. True barbarism: living day to day virtually as an animal for selfish gain.
(2. = Spiritual childhood)
2. Religious: following/buying into an institution.
(3.= Spiritual Adolescence)
3. Agnosticsim/atheism: the realization that institutions are wrong and subsequently rejecting them in a honest search for truth.
(4. = Spiritual maturity)
4. True enlightenment: a theoretical higher perspective with a true understanding of the universe, it's interconnectedness and our place in it.
There might be a correlation, but there are exceptions there too. Singapore is a pretty educated society and tends to score as fairly religious. Poland's "Education Index" is listed as better than Britain's according to the UN, but they tend to come out more religious than the British.
There might be a correlation, but there are exceptions there too. Singapore is a pretty educated society and tends to score as fairly religious. Poland's "Education Index" is listed as better than Britain's according to the UN, but they tend to come out more religious than the British.
I would also like to point out another exception to the correlation, but in the opposite direction
Using the previous posts it follows that the world's poorest regions shoul be the most Religious. The Pine Ridge Oglala Reservation in South Dakota is the second poorest region in the Western hemisphere. While it does have some very religious people most have given up on religion and are now facing epidemic alcoholism and suicides.
They're more backwards. That's the non-PC explanation.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
