Statistics Canada from 2001 reports about 77% of Canadians as Christians. In the United States it is also about 75%. In Nazi Germany it was 98.5 % in the census of 1939.
“Roughly two-thirds of Germans were Protestant, almost all of the rest Catholic. The pagan minority claimed at most 5 percent. Explicit nontheism was limited to an intellectual elite and to committed socialists. Just 1.5 percent of Germans identified themselves as unbelievers in a 1939 census, which means either that very few Nazis and National Socialist German Worker’s Party supporters were atheists, or that atheists feared to identify themselves to the pro-theistic regime.
Most religious Germans detested the impiety, secularism, and hedonistic decadence that they associated with such modernist ideas as democracy and free speech. If they feared democracy, they were terrified by Communism, to the point of being willing to accept extreme countermethods.
Thus it was a largely Christian, deeply racist, often antidemocratic, and in many respects dangerously primitive Western culture into which Nazism would arise. It was a theistic powder keg ready to explode.”
secularhumanism.org
“Are you a Christian?”
No. I believe the bible is absurd and worthless as a guide to living. It reflects the barbarism and uncivilized ideas of ancient tribal peoples. |
