I find these statistics very mysterious. Ignoring Bosnia which is a special case from which few inferences can be drawn, all 50%+ countries are non-Slav Eastern-Rite, all 25-50% countries are Slav Byzantine and all 25%- countries are Latin. What is the explanation? It can’t just be Vatican II because that doesn’t explain the inferior performance of the Slav Byzantines compared to the Non-Slav Easterners .
February 5, 2019
What is going on?
Posted by aelianus under Byzantine Catholicism, dissident byzantine churches, end of the world?, gaudium in veritate, liturgy, Russia, Ukraine[9] Comments
February 6, 2019 at 8:05 am
It means very little. In ancient Rome most people believed in gods, but they were false ones and for many of them their belief in god was simply fatalistic, they knew the gods were there but had no real relationship with them, it was superstitious. I think you would need a different poll with a different question to draw out genuine religiosity of these peoples.
February 6, 2019 at 5:34 pm
That may be or not but the statistics do seem to indicate a pattern related to the ritual traditions of these countries.
February 12, 2019 at 10:35 pm
But this is strangely exclusive. What happened to Poland, Hungary, or Spain and Ireland? Slovakia is a mixture of latin and Byzantine, Catholic and Orthodox, and the responses could not fit this analysis in national units.
February 13, 2019 at 12:43 am
I didn’t know there were significant Orthodox in Slovakia. Are you sure? I agree the omission of Poland is unhelpful. I dread to think what the figures for Ireland would be.
March 6, 2019 at 10:18 am
Statistics like this are all but exclusively made up, and this question is so strange.
Also, how did I end up following this sede trash in the first place. you are so worldly you rely on these “polls” to do your thinking for you.
March 6, 2019 at 5:26 pm
Err… what?
March 6, 2019 at 8:39 pm
So concerned you are with attacking the Church, that you have become just another enemy who sees only novelty.
March 6, 2019 at 9:01 pm
I’m a bit confused how was I supposed to be attacking the Church?
March 26, 2019 at 11:35 am
We need parallel statistics on how seriously Evolutionism / Neo-Darwinism is believed and enforced within the schools and institutions of these same countries. There are various reasons why one nation might practice religion more devoutly than another, but the bare belief or non-belief in a God has principally to do with how much hold the materialist cosmology (and its evolutionist pseudo-justification) has on the minds of the people, I think. The reason many in western countries feel so comfortable in dismissing the notion of God is that the Masonic clergy & their instruments (I’m speaking of the “science community” at large) have assured them that we have “no need for that hypothesis” and that the universe runs just as smoothly without any guiding Intelligence (or absolute moral law).