From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 18:20:04 MDT
>Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:06:42 +0100
>From: Charlie Stross <charlie@antipope.org>
>Subject: Re: Coming Trends: Fading Extropy?
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>Disagree strongly -- at least in the short (10-100 year) term.
>Western Europe is increasingly turning away from religion in general;
>less than 60% of the UK's population believe in any kind of deity,
>for example, and the level of overt religiosity on display in the USA
>is quite disconcerting to one of us who visits you guys.
Very true. I'm used to seeing towns with 1 Church and 12 pubs (I kid you
not). Unnerving to see 12 Churches and 1 bar, I can tell you.
>It's not just
>the UK, either; about the only seriously religious states left in the
>region are Ireland, Poland, and some eastern parts. (Even Italy is seeing
>a drastic decline in the viability of the Church.)
Correction:> Northern Ireland. The Republic is a lot less religious than
most think or the figures suggest. In part due to observing N.I., mainly
due to drastic social change over the last 20-25 years. And as I've said
before; the country that invented Guiness turning Islamic? Don't think so :)
Otherwise in agreement 100%
James....
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and
crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures
to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'
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