This isn’t a topic that would generate more than passing interest, but for the stated intention last year by Andrew Little and Dear Leader of banning criticism of religions. One can safely infer that what they really intend is banning criticism of Islam, given the propensity that a small but significant percentage of its adherents have for indulging in terrorism. There is no other religion today that has people routinely plotting/committing acts of terrorism in its name.
Karl du Fresne addressed this topic well in a post entitled We need to talk about Islam in November 2019 in which, as always, he makes good points.
According to this webpage where the above map comes from, the top ten least religious countries today are:
- China (7% feel religious)
- Japan (13% feel religious)
- Estonia (16% feel religious)
- Sweden (19% feel religious)
- Norway (21% feel religious)
- Czech Republic (23% feel religious)
- Hong Kong (26% feel religious)
- Netherlands (26% feel religious)
- Israel (30% feel religious)
- United Kingdom (30% feel religious)
Communism has officially been atheistic so it’s no surprise there aren’t many religiously inclined in China which is a one party communist state, even if there is a lot of raw capitalism and little welfare there. The appearance of Israel in position 9 might be a surprise given its history of turmoil, however, the conflict has been primarily based on race and land entitlements rather than Judaism versus Islam.
In New Zealand two thirds of people consider religion unimportant in daily life and one third consider it important. The figures for Australia are almost the same.
Colour coding on the map is bloody awful
Religions are another form of control.
China has been less Religious is not correct, Buddhism has been in china for couple thousand years.
Buddhism teaches there is no cruel GOD controlling everything but LIFE is full of consciousness. Before communism took over china, China was a land of many different faiths from Taoism to buddha. Its a pity China is not colourful like it used to be in the past
This is the reason why Chinese people do not believe in a cruel creator God like the 3 Abraham faiths do.
Buddhism questions the existence of a mundane cruel god that created everything including good and evil, Satan/angles etc all these are products of a god that created everything, i tell ya one thing GOD is crazy/the gods are crazy and insane
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Its been in there religious philosophes for over 2 thousand years, the I Ching book is very advanced for its time. Hell they use the binary code system for computers which came from the I Ching book of changes
Communism is total materialism thought construct, as they destroyed all the religious spiritual movements when communism entered china, shutting down anything with spiritual meaning, this was the Chinese nationalist who had to escape to Taiwan.
Japan is Also up there is second, they not communism but have once again been influenced by Buddhism.
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