Valkyrie: The things as you ask, you won't find it as much but...every time some news comes up that someone has prayed for health while a simple visit to the doctor would have done the trick, it comes from the USA. I have even heard news of a child suffering from diabetes, which was untreated because the parents preferred praying for a cure instead of a proven and working way to deal with it. So amongst the 'western world', the USA citizens certainly seem to be the most religious.
There also seems to be a 'is the USA poor' discussion going on. The problem of course, is to define poor. Would we look at debts, the USA is poor. Do we look at average income, it's not so poor. If we look at the income of the majority of the population, it's slowly edging towards poor again. But even with these interpetations, the USA is certainly not the poorest, and it's far from being the poorest.
But I do think that when it comes to religion and atheism, the USA is actually the 'oddball', and not Sweden. The USA is an oddball in many ways, like being a very poor and a stinking rich country at the same time. When I look at other European countires, it seems that atheism is also growing there, and religion (I mean Christianity) is in decline.
I wonder if the USA is becoming more radical. It´s hard to see because I don´t really know how it was exactly like there a couple of decades back.
There also seems to be a 'is the USA poor' discussion going on. The problem of course, is to define poor. Would we look at debts, the USA is poor. Do we look at average income, it's not so poor. If we look at the income of the majority of the population, it's slowly edging towards poor again. But even with these interpetations, the USA is certainly not the poorest, and it's far from being the poorest.
But I do think that when it comes to religion and atheism, the USA is actually the 'oddball', and not Sweden. The USA is an oddball in many ways, like being a very poor and a stinking rich country at the same time. When I look at other European countires, it seems that atheism is also growing there, and religion (I mean Christianity) is in decline.
I wonder if the USA is becoming more radical. It´s hard to see because I don´t really know how it was exactly like there a couple of decades back.
When I was a Christian, I was annoyed with dogmatic condescending Christians. Now that I'm an atheist, I'm annoyed with dogmatic condescending atheists. Just goes to prove that people are the same, regardless of what they do or don't believe.
