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To: Lane3 who wrote (17175)	11/22/2003 7:35:21 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793688

Evangelical Christian leaders expressed dismay So "Allah" isn't "Jehovah" huh. Well, I always think of him as "That bearded old Jew in a White Robe." To each his own.

To: Lane3 who wrote (17175)	11/22/2003 7:55:01 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793688

Bonald Sensing Blog. Univ. study: Americans are among world's most religious But there's more - and less - than meets the eye A University of Michigan study says that About 46 percent of American adults attend church at least once a week, not counting weddings, funerals and christenings, compared with 14 percent of adults in Great Britain, 8 percent in France, 7 percent in Sweden and 4 percent in Japan. Moreover, 58 percent of Americans say that they often think about the meaning and purpose of life, compared with 25 percent of the British, 26 percent of the Japanese, and 31 percent of West Germans, the study says. The study was partly funded by the National Science Foundation. Author Ronald F. Inglehart and co-author Pippa Norris said that ... while virtually all post-industrial societies have been moving toward more secular orientations for many decades, the world as a whole now has more people with traditional religious views than ever before. “Though these two propositions may seem contradictory, they’re not,” Inglehart said. “Secularization has a powerful negative impact on human fertility rates, so the least religious countries have fertility rates far below the replacement level, while societies with traditional religious views have fertility rates two or three times the replacement level.” As a result, those with traditional religious views now constitute a growing proportion of the world’s population. [ht: Bill Hobbs] I posted about the grim future European demographics hold. It would be interesting to try to get inside the implied chicken and egg problem: when the nations of Europe lost their religious faith, did they lose faith in not only heaven and eternity, but also of their culture’s and society’s future, of which the declining birth rate is the symptom? And just why is post-industrialization apparently so strongly correlated with loss of religious faith? donaldsensing.com