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Atheism sostituirà le religioni?

I published a new article by Nigel Barber on atheism as opposed to religion. Like the previous ( Why atheists have a higher IQ? ) is very interesting and provocative, but I leave judging to those who want to read it. The original is here.

Why atheism supplant religion

Atheists are heavily concentrated in the economically developed countries, particularly in European social democracies. In underdeveloped countries there are virtually no atheists. Atheism is therefore a particularly modern phenomenon. Because the conditions of modernity promote atheism?
First, as regards the distribution of atheism in the world, you can see a pretty clear pattern. In sub-Saharan Africa there is hardly atheism (Zuckerman, 2007). Faith in God is declining in most developed countries, particularly in European countries such as Sweden (64% of non-believers), Denmark (48%), France (44%) and Germany (42%). By contrast, the incidence of atheism in the majority of sub-Saharan countries is below 1%.

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32,508,000 10,311,000

Pos	country	Population	Perc atheists, agnostics , unbelievers (min - max)	projection. on population
1	Sweden	8,986,000	46-85%	4,133,560 to 7,638,100
	Vietnam		82,690,000 81% 66,978,900
3	Denmark	5,413,000		43-80% from 2,327,590 to 4,330,400
	Norway	4,575,000		31-72% from 1,418,250 to 3,294,000
5	Japan		64-65% 127,333,000 81,493,120	- 82,766,450
6	Czech Republic	10,246,100		54-61% from 5,328,940 to 6,250,121
7	Finlandia	5.215.000	28-60%	1.460.200 - 3.129.000
8	Francia	60.424.000	43-54%	25.982.320 - 32.628.960
9	Corea del Sud	48.598.000	30%-52%	14.579.400 - 25.270.960
10	Estonia	1.342.000	49%	657.580
11	Germania	82.425.000	41-49%	33.794.250 - 40.388.250
12	Russia	143,782,000	24-48%	34,507,680 to 69,015,360
13	Hungary	10,032,000	32-46%	3210 .240 - 4,614,720
14	Netherlands	16,318,000		39-44% from 6,364,020 to 7,179,920
15	Britain	60,271,000	31-44%	18,684,010 to 26,519,240
16	Belgium	10,348,000	42-43%	4,346,160 to 4,449,640
17	Bulgaria	7,518,000		34-40% from 2,556,120 to 3,007,200
18	Slovenia	2,011,000		35-38% from 703,850 to 764,180
19	Israel	6,199,000		15-37% from 929,850 to 2,293,630
20	Canada			19-30% from 6,176,520 to 9,752,400
21	Latvia	2,306,000	20-29%	461,200 to 668,740
22	Slovakia	5,424,000		10-28% from 542,400 to 1,518,720
23	Switzerland	7,451,000		17-27% from 1,266,670 to 2,011,770
24	Austria	8,175,000		18-26% from 1,471,500 to 2,125,500
25	Australia	19,913,000		24-25% from 4,779,120 to 4,978,250
26	Taiwan	22,750,000	24%	5,460,000
27	Spain	40,281,000		15-24% from 6,042,150 to 9,667,440
28	Iceland	294,000	16-23%	47,040 to 67,620
29	New Zealand	3,994,000		20-22% from 798,800 to 878,680
30	Ukraine	47,732,000	20 %	9,546,400
31	Belarus		17%	1,752,870
32	Greece		10,648,000 16% 1,703,680
33	North Korea		22,698,000 15% ( ?)	3,404,700
34	Italy	58,057,000		6-15% from 3,483,420 to 8,708,550
35	Armenia	2,991,000	14%	418,740
36	China	1,298,848,000	8-14% (?)	103.907.840 - 181.838.720
37	Lituania	3.608.000	13%	469.040
38	Singapore	4.354.000	13%	566.020
39	Uruguay	3.399.000	12%	407.880
40	Kazakhstan	15.144.000	11-12%	1.665.840 - 1.817.280
41	Estonia	1.342.000	11%	147.620
42	Mongolia	2.751.000	9%	247.590
43	Portogallo	10.524.000	4-9%	420.960 - 947.160
44	USA	293.028.000	3-9%	8.790.840 - 26.822.520
45	Albania	3.545.000	8%	283.600
46	Argentina	39.145.000	4-8%	1.565.800 - 3.131.600
47	Kyrgyzstan	5.081.000	7%	355.670
48	Rep. Dominicana	8.834.000	7%	618.380
49	Cuba	11.309.000	7% (?)	791.630
50	Croazia	4.497.000	7%	314.790

Da " Atheism: Contemporary numbers and patterns ", Zuckerman (2007)

Le percentuali indicate con un punto interrogativo a seguito sono be considered uncertain

The question of why the economically developed countries are requested from atheism has been discussed by anthropologists for nearly eighty years. The anthropologist James Fraser has suggested that scientific predictions about the nature and control are replacing religion as a means to overcome the insecurity in our lives. This idea is supported by data showing that more educated countries have a higher number of non-believers and there are strong correlations between atheism and intelligence (see here ).

Atheists are generally college-educated people living in cities and are heavily concentrated in European social democracies. Atheism So blossoms in the midst of well-being, where the majority of people feel economically secure. But why?

seems that people talk of religion as a balm for the difficulties and uncertainty in their lives. In the social democracies there are fewer fears and uncertainties about the future because the social assistance programs provide a safety net, and better health care means that fewer people can expect to die young. People less vulnerable to hostile forces of nature they feel better able to control their lives and have less need of religion.

" Religion is the sigh of a creature
oppressed
the feeling of a heartless world
, the spirit of a
provided free spirit.
is the opiate of the masses "(Karl Marx)

Religion, as well as being the opiate of the masses (as Karl Marx called it disparagingly), may also promote fertility, particularly by supporting marriage, according to the copious amount of data analyzed by Sanderson (2008). Large families are favored in many agricultural countries providing arms free for work. In developed countries, and "atheists", women have families exceptionally small and do not need a religion that helps them grow large families.

also psychological functions of religion face a tough competition today. In modern societies, when people experience psychological difficulties please ask your doctor, psychologist or psychiatrist. He wants a remedy Scientific and prefers the tangible psychotropic medication provided by specialist opiate metaphorical offered by religion.

addition, psychologists have found that sports fans sports gives more or less the same social and spiritual benefits that people get from belonging to a church. In a previous article I showed how the sport is replacing religion. The same argument can be made for other forms of entertainment in which viewers are deeply involved. In fact, religion is fighting back by trying to compete in the popular media, as with tele-evangelism and Christian Rock, hosting live entertainment or layman in the church.

The reasons why the churches are losing ground in the developed countries can be summarized in terms of the market. First, with better science, with social safety nets and smaller families there is less fear and uncertainty in people's daily lives and therefore less market for religion. At the same time offers several alternatives such as psychotropic medications and electronic entertainment, more free and straps and laces that do not need to comply so slavish to non-scientific beliefs.

(Nigel Barber's Blog: "The Human Beast", at the Psychology Today)

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References:

• Original article by Nigel Barber on Psychology Today: Why atheism will replace religion ( link)
• Sanderson, SK (2008). Adaptation, evolution, and religion . Religion, 38, 141-156 (PDF ).
• Zuckerman, P. (2007). Atheism: Contemporary numbers and patterns. In M. Martin (ed.), The Cambridge companion to atheism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This Book Is Not Held By Any U.S. Library ( abstract, PDF)