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Hey, City-Data Forum!
Well, I am a religious person and I have a lot of atheist friends. So, one of these days, I and my friends were discussing this:
According to them, the more people pray, the less prosperous they will be. And the less they pray they'll be more successful. For example, people in the Scandinavian countries, Japan, Western Europe which are majority atheist have a higher standard of living than those in religious countries such as India, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Angola, etc...
Now I ask: why so? shouldn't it be the other way around? Doesn't God love those poor people?
PS: sorry for my grammar/vocabulary, English is not my native language.
It is because religious people do not want to advance society, they want it to go back to the stone age. Advancement breeds prosperity. Just my 2 cents.
These countries are great examples of why religion and government should never be together. Religion is a personal thing and politics is a public thing. When the two are combined everything personal becomes public and everything public becomes personal; people have no personal life and they all have the same public life.
Hey, City-Data Forum!
Well, I am a religious person and I have a lot of atheist friends. So, one of these days, I and my friends were discussing this:
According to them, the more people pray, the less prosperous they will be. And the less they pray they'll be more successful. For example, people in the Scandinavian countries, Japan, Western Europe which are majority atheist have a higher standard of living than those in religious countries such as India, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Angola, etc...
Now I ask: why so? shouldn't it be the other way around? Doesn't God love those poor people?
PS: sorry for my grammar/vocabulary, English is not my native language.
Nope, not true. Being irreligious is actually correlated with less college education and poverty!
Worldwide surveys have consistently ranked the Scandinavian countries — with their generous family-leave policies, low crime, free health care, rich economies and, yes, high income taxes — as the happiest places on earth. But this happiness has always been accompanied by a paradox: the happiest countries also seem to have the highest suicide rates.
There’s one thing that happiness studies seem to leave out, however. Some of the happiest countries in the world – Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and the United States, for instance – also have the highest suicide rates in the world.
Nope, not true. Being irreligious is actually correlated with less college education and poverty!
LOL!
No, it isn't. Religion thrives on the poor and uneducated.
The Bible and its god were created precisely to control those types, and to take their money.
It is because religious people do not want to advance society, they want it to go back to the stone age. Advancement breeds prosperity. Just my 2 cents.
So all religious people want to go back to the stone age.?
So all religious people want to go back to the stone age.?
Sorry, forgot people here can't tell an exaggeration. I simply meant that religious types do not want advancement like non religious types, as this is one reason, i believe, that makes people "stray" from religion. Advancement seems to make more atheists. Most religious leaders want their followers uneducated, it keeps them ignorant enough to keep believing fairy tales.
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