NRIII
--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > But if it's so fundamental, why have so many of us
> > shed it? Most of
> > Western Europe and Japan, and even some 14% of
> > Americans are more or
> > less secular.
> >
> > Doug
> >
>
> Well, that's what the may say in surveys, but I have
> my doubts as to whether it's actually true. I
> believe
> that huge majorities of Europeans are secular the
> way
> I believe huge majorities of Americans are deeply
> religious; not really, they're saying what society
> says they would say. And discarding traditional
> religions does not mean you have necessarily become
> areligious -- you have likely shifted your
> irrationality elsewhere. Maybe -- this is all yanked
> from my nether regions, but it makes sense to me.
>
> Isn't Japan heavily into Shintoism?
>
>
>
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