RE: A Small Census
March 9, 2013 at 5:43 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2013 at 5:44 pm by jstrodel.)
(March 9, 2013 at 5:33 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: About 80% of the population of Sweden is atheist. Yet they have lower crime rates, lower drug use, much lower teen pregnancy rate than the US, even though the US has a much higher % of belief in a god.
How do explain that?
Where do you get that number from?
http://www.thelocal.se/26878/20100527/#.UTusIDd5iUY
This says that the church of Sweden still plays a central role in Swedish life, although it is declining.
Quote:Even baptisms, long a popular symbolic gesture of church membership among Swedes, have also declined dramatically in popularity, dropping from 68 to 56 percent over the five year period.
Over the ten years since the church was separated from the state, the proportion of the population retaining a membership of the church has fallen from 82.9 percent to 71.3 percent, with 73,400 people leaving the church in 2009.
The church may be declining, but if the people are 80% atheist, why are they being baptized in the church?
(March 9, 2013 at 5:33 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Somebody might do well to re-read Matthew 7:1-6.
After all that vitriol you are telling me not to judge people?
