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There's one huge gap there which is China, they don't have any data there. If you click on it in their world map it shows NaN%. Considering their enormous popu

There's one huge gap there which is China, they don't have any data there. If you click on it in their world map it shows NaN%. Considering their enormous population it matters a lot on the world as a whole.

brabel 5y ago
If you read the article, one of the first sentences has this to say about China: _When analyzing the WIN/Gallup International polls' data, China is the least religious country. Less than 10% of residents stated that they feel religious in this nation, and over 60% are "convinced atheists." _
- GekkePrutser 5y ago
  Yeah I saw they mentioned it a few times, I'm just surprised they left it out of their own comparions. Because I would indeed imagine it's the least religous overall. Of course in China a lot of religion is hidden because it's unwanted by the CCP. It was the same in Russia during Soviet rule but you can see the opposite happening now (very strict adherence to religious and traditional morals).
aww_dang 5y ago
If you think critically about the role of religion, especially in the context of organizing a society around shared ideals, it isn't hard to see how this conclusion was reached. Include the cult of the expert, scientism, technocracy or politics as an all encompassing belief system. I'd wager that you'll find that many of these non-religious regions are highly devout. Consider the tolerance or lack thereof in some of these examples. https://observers.france24.com/en/20190626-china-tibet-portraits-xi-jinping-dalai-lama https://observers.france24.com/en/20190626-china-tibet-portr... https://bitterwinter.org/xi-jinping-portraits-replace-catholic-symbols/ https://bitterwinter.org/xi-jinping-portraits-replace-cathol... https://mosemaryandme.com/products/anthony-fauci-devotional-prayer-saint-candle https://mosemaryandme.com/products/anthony-fauci-devotional-... https://hyperallergic.com/554171/anthony-fauci/ https://hyperallergic.com/554171/anthony-fauci/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche#Religious_features_of_Juche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche#Religious_features_of_Ju... https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961507953/without-their-messiah-qanon-believers-confront-a-post-trump-world https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961507953/without-their-messi... >This fact seems to place the person committed to scientism in a cognitive predicament much like that of the religious believer, i.e., deeply committed to the eventual revelation of a mystery, a truth that from our current circumstances is in principle unknowable. For scientism, this truth is the belief that we will one day be able to offer an exhaustive inventory of reality in purely natural terms. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/17390/1/%5E%20Final_Religion%20and%20Scientism%202.0.pdf http://repository.essex.ac.uk/17390/1/%5E%20Final_Religion%2...

brabel 5y ago

If you read the article, one of the first sentences has this to say about China: _When analyzing the WIN/Gallup International polls' data, China is the least religious country. Less than 10% of residents stated that they feel religious in this nation, and over 60% are "convinced atheists." _

GekkePrutser 5y ago
Yeah I saw they mentioned it a few times, I'm just surprised they left it out of their own comparions. Because I would indeed imagine it's the least religous overall. Of course in China a lot of religion is hidden because it's unwanted by the CCP. It was the same in Russia during Soviet rule but you can see the opposite happening now (very strict adherence to religious and traditional morals).

aww_dang 5y ago

If you think critically about the role of religion, especially in the context of organizing a society around shared ideals, it isn't hard to see how this conclusion was reached. Include the cult of the expert, scientism, technocracy or politics as an all encompassing belief system. I'd wager that you'll find that many of these non-religious regions are highly devout. Consider the tolerance or lack thereof in some of these examples. https://observers.france24.com/en/20190626-china-tibet-portraits-xi-jinping-dalai-lama https://observers.france24.com/en/20190626-china-tibet-portr... https://bitterwinter.org/xi-jinping-portraits-replace-catholic-symbols/ https://bitterwinter.org/xi-jinping-portraits-replace-cathol... https://mosemaryandme.com/products/anthony-fauci-devotional-prayer-saint-candle https://mosemaryandme.com/products/anthony-fauci-devotional-... https://hyperallergic.com/554171/anthony-fauci/ https://hyperallergic.com/554171/anthony-fauci/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche#Religious_features_of_Juche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juche#Religious_features_of_Ju... https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961507953/without-their-messiah-qanon-believers-confront-a-post-trump-world https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961507953/without-their-messi... >This fact seems to place the person committed to scientism in a cognitive predicament much like that of the religious believer, i.e., deeply committed to the eventual revelation of a mystery, a truth that from our current circumstances is in principle unknowable. For scientism, this truth is the belief that we will one day be able to offer an exhaustive inventory of reality in purely natural terms. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/17390/1/%5E%20Final_Religion%20and%20Scientism%202.0.pdf http://repository.essex.ac.uk/17390/1/%5E%20Final_Religion%2...