Europe- The Atheist continent!?

[Sandman]

Originally posted by VJ
France, Belgium and the Netherlands will have muslim majorities within 30 years, Sweden within 50. The era of freedom of and from religion is rapidly coming to an end in these countries.

No they won't.

[Dr Strangelove]

According to the CIA factbook 75% of the British population claim to belong to some sort of religion ( at least according to their government), 59% of the Dutch do also. Better than 85% of the French are claimed to have some sort of religious belief. In Belgium 75% of the population is Roman Catholic, but protestants are lumped in with the "others" including muslims and atheists.

Polls can be wrong, but so can government statistics. I would hope that european governments do a comprehensive census every decade or so and include a more detailed poll taken from a large sample of the population like the US does.

[RGBVideo]

Originally posted by Sandman


No they won't.

You can easily say "no", because you're not alive anymore when the time comes and you're selfish enough not to care what happens to the people you leave the world to when you die.

I don't want to live in the fundamentalist, narrow-minded and technophobic ****hole Europe is turning into

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
Isnt bavaria quite christian?

Yes, almost completely. It makes for a big part of the purple color. It's Germany's Texas, you know.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
According to the CIA factbook

The CIA factbook is the guys that attributed their figure of ~80% of Swedes being Lutherans to official Swedish census data when there is no such thing as official Swedish census data. I'd take their figures with several helpings of salt.

[Asmodean]

The colour of Norther Ireland surprises me. Scene of one of the worst religious conflicts in the last century, and they don't really believe in God.

Asmodean

[Lul Thyme]

Originally posted by Asmodean
The colour of Norther Ireland surprises me. Scene of one of the worst religious conflicts in the last century, and they don't really believe in God.

Asmodean

I know you're probably joking anyway, but Northern Ireland doesn't have its own color on this map, it's colored with the UK what with being the same country and all.

That's sorta like talking about the color of Munich on the map.

[Asmodean]

You know what, I just realized that

Joke stands anyway though.

Asmodean

[Sandman]

Originally posted by VJ

You can easily say "no", because you're not alive anymore when the time comes and you're selfish enough not to care what happens to the people you leave the world to when you die.

I don't want to live in the fundamentalist, narrow-minded and technophobic ****hole Europe is turning into

I can easily say no because the demographic shift you are proposing is impossible. It's expounded by ideologues with a vested interest in denigrating Europe, concentrating on a continent's worth of anecdotes and cherry picked statistics.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by MikeH
I'm surprised the UK is as high as 30%.

It's all those Jedis.

[Colon™]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
According to the CIA factbook 75% of the British population claim to belong to some sort of religion ( at least according to their government), 59% of the Dutch do also. Better than 85% of the French are claimed to have some sort of religious belief. In Belgium 75% of the population is Roman Catholic, but protestants are lumped in with the "others" including muslims and atheists.

Polls can be wrong, but so can government statistics. I would hope that european governments do a comprehensive census every decade or so and include a more detailed poll taken from a large sample of the population like the US does.

You really shouldn't rely on CIA Factbook and especially not when it comes to Belgian religion statistics. Official Belgian statistics agencies don't hold regular religion surveys and most of the nominal Catholics don't practice.

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by Asmodean
The colour of Norther Ireland surprises me. Scene of one of the worst religious conflicts in the last century

Worst? Pointless loss of life yes, but not even close to worst. A stampede in Mecca probably killed more anually.

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by DaShi


It's all those Jedis.

Actually, as Asmodean has noted, it's all the religious freaks in Northern Ireland artificially bumping us up to ~30%...

[ískallin]

That Icelands one is as high as 30% is rubbish.. The only ones who go to church are old people and weirdo's

[Odin]

The Czech Republic and Estonia are the most enlightened countries in Europe, apparently.