tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009010011589823837.post2119177795616203176..comments2024-03-14T07:29:46.679-07:00Comments on Baha'i Coherence: The Decline of ChristianityBryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06536028746119658713noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009010011589823837.post-61997648216884903132018-08-30T17:22:42.427-07:002018-08-30T17:22:42.427-07:00https://religionnews.com/2018/08/29/new-poll-finds...https://religionnews.com/2018/08/29/new-poll-finds-even-religious-americans-feel-the-good-vibrations/<br /><br />Another relevant article on how how much people belong to religion isn't a good indicator of beliefs and practices. Three groups highly, somewhat, and non exist which can be divided into 2-3 groups each: Sundary Stalwarts, God and Country Believer, and Diversely Devout for Highly; Relaxed Religious and Spiritually Awake for Somewhat; Religion Resisters and Solidly Secular for Non.<br /><br />New Age beliefs (and implied adherence to the New Age Worldview in whole or part) exist in varying degrees among the groups.<br /><br />Full Sample is the baseline to compare the groups to. 42% Spiritual energy can be found in physical objects; 41% Psychics; 33% Reincarnation; 29% Astrology<br /><br />Highly Religious (39%): Sunday Stalwarts (17%), lower than Full Sample. 32% Psychics; 29% Spiritual energy in physical objects; 19% Reincarnation; 16% Astrology<br /><br />Highly Religious (39%): God and Country Believers (12%), lower than Full Sample. 28% Psychics; 21% Reincarnation; 16% Astrology; 0% Spiritual energy in physical objects<br /><br />Highly Religious (39%): Diversely Devout (11%), higher than Full Sample. 95% Spiritual energy in physical objects, 68% Psychics, 63% Reincarnation, 57% Astrology<br /><br />Somewhat Religious (32%): Relaxed Religious (17%), lower than Full Sample. 28% Psychics, 22% Reincarnation, 16% Astrology, 0% Spiritual energy in physical objects<br /><br />Somewhat Religious (32%): Spiritually Awake (15%), higher than Full Sample. 99% Spiritual energy in physical objects; 72% Psychics; 63% Astrology; 61% Reincarnation<br /><br />Non-Religious (29%): Religion Resisters (12%), higher than Full Sample. 98% Spiritual energy in physical objects; 62% Psychics; 49% Reincarnation; 44% Astrology<br /><br />Non-Religious (29%): Solidly Secular (17%), lower than Full Sample. 12% Reincarnation; 5% Astrology; 1% Psychics; <1% Spiritual energy in physical objects<br /><br />Traditional Theism, Deism, Naturalism, Eastern Pantheism/Monism, and New Age among other worldviews are the various worldviews people have. The data shows a turning away from Traditional Theism, but Naturalism/Materialism isn't the big gainer, but New Age according to the data. SKG Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05834563759301470593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009010011589823837.post-28622401138379964422017-07-19T14:19:14.006-07:002017-07-19T14:19:14.006-07:00The current percentages of specific religions vari...The current percentages of specific religions varies by survey, but Wikipedia's Religion in the United States has:<br /><br />Christianity 59.9-70.6%<br />Judaism 1.2-2.2%<br />Islam 0.6-0.9%<br />Abrahamic Subtotal 61.7-73.7%<br /><br />Buddhism 0.5-0.9%<br />Hinduism 0.4-0.7%<br />Dharmic Subtotal 0.9-1.6%<br /><br />Unitarian Universalism 0.3%<br />Contemporary Modern Neo Paganism 0.1%<br />Other Subtotal 0.4%<br /><br />All Smaller Other Relgions 1.8%<br /><br />Unaffiliated or "None" 15-37.3%<br /><br />Not Stated 0.6%<br /><br />Note due to ranges all low estates equal 78% and all high ones equal 113%. Also other religion smaller than Paganism weren't mentioned due to being to small to list by religion. <br /><br />I like the Pew Research Center and the polls they have published, especially religion related ones. I remember polls mentioning way more than the four reasons you listed as why people doubt, question, and leave religion. <br /><br /><br />For example: long story short, I was born minority Protestant. I became a teenager and explored various religions. I converted to and from various religions overtime. Then sometime after 2013 I finally converted to Buddhism (Mahayana, Nichiren, Soka Gakkai International to be specific). The four issues listed above weren't as big factors as ther factors. <br /><br />The biggest factor alienating me from Abrahamic Religions (all of them) was a moralism and legalism that focused on conformity with religious laws, both within religion and society at large, even among people who followed other religions. Cow protectors are an example within Hinduism, but it's a pan religious phenomenon, but is usually seen in Abrahamic religions. <br /><br />The burden of proof reversal is an example of how the faith/doubt dichotomy is kind of false. The fundamentalist subverts the concepts of skewing for truth and free thought by implying and outright stating both concepts start, are grounded in, and end in recognizing their faith as the one true faith, and not recognizing any other faith. I've met such people lots of times both online and in real life too. <br /><br />Take for instance comments from another blog, whom were moderator removed for fundamentalism on the part of the other person, as an example. They're Australian, but for some reason feel the need to ciriticze any country (like America and others which implicitly ciriticze a their own) for having laws that aren't endorsed by their religion despite being a minority religion in the countries involved. <br /><br />They on the one hand praise open letters by interfaith panels and committes, but only if they agree with them on policy positions. But otherwise, they lament how few people have converted to their religion and that God will punish countries for lack of conversions. <br /><br />Note related to it, but they did have a habit of not logging in as themselves for their comments. They did log in as themselves most of the time, but during one flame war of comments, they claimed to just be lazy and were logged in as their son because their son used their computer for Facebook, despite the comments section explicitly saying that if people were on a shared computer and they weren't the person logged in to log out and log in as themselves. <br /><br />But enough about fundamentalism. Let's talk about positive stuff to end on. People have to have a reason to believe in a religion. Take things like: daily life stuff like human revolution, Interconnectedness, compassion, wisdom, creating value, treasuring diversity, etc and lots more stuff. SKG Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05834563759301470593noreply@blogger.com