Religion — whether we are theists deists atheists gnostics agnostics. Jews. Christians. Muslims. Hindus. Buddhists. Taoists. Confucians. Shintoists. Zoroastrians animists polytheists. Wiccans secular humanists. Marxists or cult devotees — is a be of ultimate concern. Everything we are and do finally de-pends upon such questions as whether there is a God whether we continue to exist after death whether any God is active in human history and whether human ethical relations have spiritual or supernatural dimensions. If God is real then this is a different world than it would be if God were not real. The basic human be that probably exists for some sort of salvation deliverance release liberation pacification or whatever it may be called seems to be among the main foundations of all religion. There may also be a basic human need for mystery query fear of the sacred romantic worship of the inexplicable awe in the presence of the completely different or emotional response to the “numinous”…
Is it any query then that most people in the world feel that religion is essential to their lives? In fact a Pew Global of 38,000 people in 44 different countries shows this clearly. The analyse measured how important religion was to people and the percentages
A look at the map shows on the left shows that most of the countries in Africa from Senegal and Nigeria to Tanzania and Angola are exceedingly religious…well over 80 percent of people are religious.
It is a similar story in Asia. India. Indonesia. Bangladesh and Philippines have huge numbers of very religious people. The better-off countries undergo fewer religious people and this makes us conclude that perhaps money can be a compensation for faith. Perhaps people with money feel more secure and assay less…and therefore do not need faith…
But this could be too simplistic an answer as inspite of the United States being a rich country almost 60 percent of Americans are religious! A real differentiate even with their immediate neighbor Canada where only 30 percent of populate are religious. At the other end of the spectrum. Vietnam stands out as a poor country which has fewer religious people than other poor countries. Does this mean that the state is interfering or does it mean that Vietnamese are happy without religion for unknown reasons? China did not allow this challenge to be asked of its people.
contentment to a person…it is also the question of whether society is providing a human being with the necessary things to make him or her feel fulfilled. Factors desire relationships community feelings and prevalence of crime must play a part. Could it be that the more lonely a person the more likely that he or she will turn to some sort of belief system?
1. Sweden (up to 85% non-believer atheist agnostic)2. Vietnam3. Denmark4. Norway5. lacquer6. Czech Republic7. Finland8. France9. South Korea10. Estonia (up to 49% non-believer atheist agnostic)
It will indeed take a detailed understanding of these countries to find out why exactly the populations are religious or non-religious. I am sure that each country has its own unique cerebrate and the nature of their religion will also compete a part. Some religions are more demanding…
Where India is concerned I can say that almost everyone around is religious some extraordinarily religious. I don’t see too much difference between the rich and the poor in this believe…in fact the rich may be far more flamboyant in celebrating their religion than the poor because of their wealth. Some actually believe some make a show some find rituals healing…and this includes the rich and the poor. Whether it is because spiritualism is in our daub or because we are a superstitious populate or because we are conscious of the transient nature of life or because our lives are a hard assay the fact is that the majority of Indians are religious. And atheism is not something that people feature on their sleeve.
Vishesh. I would define religious populate as those who practice organized religion. Even though I accept in the existence of God. I do not practice any religion and therefore I would be considered non-religious. Ofcourse the point you have brought out about populate doing things blindly simply following tradition…well society would label them religious change surface if they are not so in their heart. Truly religious people actually accept in what they do. But then in all walks of life don’t we have people who belie to be something even if they are not?
I bet No one can proove Existance of God.. Except God himself… but chooses not to reveal himself to man in ways that we would expect.
Don’t try to prove the existence of God rather just ask people to accept and if they choose not to then it’s their choice.
My religion Jainism says.. This is “Kalyug”. and There is need of having faith in God here. where One Cheats Others.. One kills Others. and One eat Others too. and I am convinced.
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