Friday, February 20, 2009
It’s now largely only the poor and less-educated, that believe in God.
Indulge me, with some salient statistics, that provides basis to my statement.
The 10 Least Religious countries are:
• Estonia 14 percent
• Sweden 17 percent
• Denmark 18 percent
• Norway 20 percent
• Czech Republic 21 percent
• Azerbaijan 21 percent
• Hong Kong 22 percent
• Japan 25 percent
• France 25 per cent
• Mongolia 27 percent
The 10 Most Religious countries are:
• Egypt 100 percent
• Bangladesh 99 percent
• Sri Lanka 98 percent
• Indonesia 98 percent
• D.R Congo 98 percent
• Sierra Leone 98 percent
• Malawi 98 percent
• Senegal 98 percent
• Djibouti 98 percent
• Morocco 98 percent
Now I’ll rank these 20 countries, based on their ‘Gross Domestic Product per capita’, and also see where they stand amongst other countries in the world. You’ll see below I’ve combined the above list, from the highest GDP per head to the lowest, and then beside each name (in brackets) is their respective ranking out-of the 178 countries.
In case you were wondering, statistics on Hong Kong & Djibouti,were unavailable.
· Norway (3)
· Denmark (15)
· Sweden (16)
· Japan (22)
· France (23)
· Czech Republic (35)
· Estonia (41)
· Azerbaijan (81)
· Egypt (98)
· Sri Lanka (112)
· Morocco (114)
· Indonesia (120)
· Mongolia (123)
· Senegal (145)
· Bangladesh (151)
· Malawi (168)
· Sierra Leone (173)
· D.R Congo (178)
Does anyone else see the obvious trend?
Religion has the tendency, to make you, and your countrymen poor.
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5 comments:
> Religion has the tendency, to make you, and your countrymen poor.
Are you sure you have your causation correct? Could it be that being poor makes you more likely to turn to religion? And, of course, correlation does not imply causation...
Yes, at a superficial level, one could interpret statistics like this to say “being poor makes you more religious” but the leading non-religious country in this particular study, Estonia has out-stripped its traditional Russian neighbours in terms of growth and GDP. The more educated and atheistic Estonians have become, the richer they’ve become. Japan is a great example – when the people became more educated and threw-away centuries of feudal, Shinto/Buddhist subservience they grew into the power-house they are today.
Further, in part two, I will prove (via similar stats) it is safer to visit an ungodly country than one in which the inhabitants are believers in the supernatural, what are commonly called 'good church-goers'. In fact the safest countries in the world are the most atheistic, the most dangerous, are the most theistic.
I’m looking forward to seeing a series ‘Holidays in Theist Hell-Holes’.
All comments are appreciated.
Paul.
Hi there!
I am writing a series of posts on God concepts and I was wondering if anybody is interested in playing the devils advocate – since all the comments I get are one sided and it just doesn’t make for a good debate. So if you are an intelligent individual that can respect different opinions and would like to pitch in a thought or two stop by :)
Thank you!
Coming from a third world nation, I agree with Stephen's point. Poor people turn to religion, not religion making people poor.
Danny mate, what statistical and factual basis do you have to back-up your beliefs?
May be, the same facts for say believing in God?
That’s to say none.
You could believe in say ‘The Tooth Fairy’ – it doesn’t make it true.
Generally the more secular a nation is – the richer it is (only exception is U.S.A which is ironically, the most dangerous country in The Western Word)
Yes or No?
Countries that have turned their backs on religion, like Japan have reaped the rewards, and are by-in-large safer places to frequent.
Yes or No?
Give me some facts man – not platitudes!
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