9th September 2011
“Young Canadians, who religious leaders once hoped would find their way back to faith, are instead doing the opposite: leading the country's march toward secularism.”
“Young Canadians, who religious leaders once hoped would find their way back to faith, are instead doing the opposite: leading the country's march toward secularism.”
September 9th, 2011 at 5:49
well, that’s hopeful.
perhaps others will follow their lead.
September 9th, 2011 at 8:38
Yes, good news indeed. Let’s hope this trend has strong roots.
September 9th, 2011 at 9:41
Encouraging eh! 🙂
September 9th, 2011 at 13:17
Praise Darwin!!
September 9th, 2011 at 15:19
Religiosity Highest in World’s Poorest Nations
http://www.gallup.com/poll/142727/religiosity-highest-world-poorest-nations.aspx
Poverty and stupidity have always been common among the religious.
September 9th, 2011 at 16:56
Sinjin;
I hate to disagree, but I must. Poverty and lack of learning (notice I did NOT say education) are the common factor here. When education levels rise, poverty decreases, and so does the acceptance of magical explanations that is necessary to the rise of the religious mindset.
Lack of learning is a correctable condition – stupidity is forever.
September 9th, 2011 at 17:50
Jeff I appreciate your disagreement, I had made the point about stupidity before or I would have provided the reference, but I wanted you to know that it is with science that you disagree, not so much me:
The intelligence–religiosity nexus: A representative study of white adolescent Americans
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289608001013
IQ AND THE VALUES OF NATIONS
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=5794972
I did want to recognize your point about lack of learrning with this link:
Religiosity and Level of Education
http://www.bths.edu/majordesc/SSR_Insight/2010_INSIGHT.pdf#page=41
It appears that either way stupidity or lack of education, both are common among the religious.
September 9th, 2011 at 18:27
Jeff – you beat me to the punch! Ignorance and stupidity are distinctly different things. It doesn’t surprise me that the poorest countries also have the least well educated populations. Pity them and support education where you can.
September 9th, 2011 at 18:39
Captain and Jeff, seems you are wanting to make a point about education which I didn’t speak to.
1> Of course I think education/learning is an important correctable problem where it is lacking.
2> I agree stupidity is different and not correctable.
But these postitions dod not refute my statement “Poverty and stupidity have always been common among the religious”. This remains statistically validated.
Jeff had said “I hate to disagree, but I must. Poverty and lack of learning (notice I did NOT say education) are the common factor here”.
Both stupidity and lack of education/learning are common among the religious. If you see the references links I’ve provided you will see this is so.
September 9th, 2011 at 20:21
guys………………..
drawing these distinctions is all well and good.
but, what i REALLY want to know is if this movement
of young Canadians, cited in the quote, will have
any effect on the flow of imported Canadian Bacon
to the U S !!!!
September 9th, 2011 at 21:22
Canadian Bacon
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109370/
I often wonder if, in Canada, they call it American Bacon? Kind of the inverse of American cheese.
I also wonder if in Myanmar, formerly Burma, if they have started calling the Burmese Python the Myanmarmese Python. Cause that’d be a mouthful.
September 10th, 2011 at 0:06
sin……………….
i would bet they keep calling it BURMESE.
remember…..there are burmese kitties and
siamese kitties too !!