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Post by turoldus on May 2, 2009 10:00:07 GMT
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Post by knowingthomas on May 3, 2009 21:05:05 GMT
Would it still be wise in saying that religious belief is correlated with happiness, more children, charitable etc? In light of Zuckerman and the other articles? Exactly how does this related to Scandinavians?
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Post by jamierobertson on May 3, 2009 21:46:10 GMT
Well, it seems scandinavians have the "vestiges" common in a post-christian country. I reckon it'll be a couple of generations before a more aggressively secular ethos comes out, and it'll be some time after THAT before we could draw conclusions about happiness, longevity, etc in the country.
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Post by humphreyclarke on May 4, 2009 7:26:24 GMT
It's important to realise that you can reject the religion but continue wholeheartedly with all the same 'categories of thinking'. In fact its the moral and ethical modes of thought that people cling to the most, long after the metaphysical views have been cast off. You see this most plainly in Secular Humanism is basically the continuation of Christianity by other means (with a bit of free love thrown in). You also see this in the more radical strains of the enlightenment which set themselves in opposition to Judeo-Christianity but modelled themselves upon it. What they did was adopt some of the concepts that had emerged during the Reformation and shifted the focus from salvation in the next life to salvation in this life, with mixed consequences.
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