The God Delusion: Would society be better off without religion?

[Tee Kay]

Completely and utterly false. According to the 2006 census around 69.5 % belong to a religion. In fact, Australia has been very religious in it's past. When more than 2/3 of your citizens are religious, I think that qualifies as being a religious country.


The graph is based on the link below

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@...636F496B2B943F12CA2573D200109DA9?opendocument

Um... having a religious affiliation does not mean you're particularly religious. You have people who identify as Catholic or Anglican but pay lip-service to church and so on.

 

[Wilks johnson]

Um... having a religious affiliation does not mean you're particularly religious. You have people who identify as Catholic or Anglican but pay lip-service to church and so on.

You have a point. I was like that for several years until I realized what I really believed(or didn't believe, to be more precise). I shouldn't have made the conversation so black and white.

I was raised catholic and baptised and the lot. I'm in the big book as a catholic.

But I'm an atheist who can't be arsed to spend a minute of my time to chance how my religion or lack there off is recorded.

What do you mean by the "big book"? Does it say you are a catholic on your birth certificate? I was raised protestant and baptised. Does this mean I am recorded as a protestant or is it something parents choose on an individual basis?

Or am I completely missing what you're saying?

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

What do you mean by the "big book"? Does it say you are a catholic on your birth certificate? I was raised protestant and baptised. Does this mean I am recorded as a protestant or is it something parents choose on an individual basis?

I really have no idea how it's recorded actually. If it's mentioned on my BC, it probably says catholic. But I know it's recorded somewhere, but since it doesn't bother me, I never found out.

Or am I completely missing what you're saying?

Not sure if I'm completely getting my drift actually

 

[The Imp]

::looks at Sweden::

Well, it certainly wouldn't be worse off.

 

[civplayah]

Definitely worse in the older ages, because then they would be afraid of lightning instead of seeing it as the act of God.

 

[Link]

Im gonna go with, Its already thought to be the act of a god. Just not your god. and by that logic, its better to see it as a natural thing than god's wrath, so its better to be atheist than theist.