Posted: Nov 25, 2016 5:36 pm
archibald wrote:Rumraket wrote:Pertinent example: Scandinavia.
I largely agree, in principle.
I wonder though, if conditions in Scandinavia (a part of the world I hugely admire, to the point that I would like it to somehow take over the world) were to be swopped with conditions in, say, Burundi (with no offence intended to any Burundians present) in a 'Trading Places' (the movie) type of switcheroo....
Iow, is the degree of 'need' for god related to circumstance and in that sense is atheism a sort of luxury commodity?
Atheism possibly thrives in "luxury", I prefer to call it "welfare state" instead, but its not condition necessary. Atheism can also be (by)product of repression against religion, see communism and religion for example.
There is not one way to salvation ;)