Re:Wealth and Religion on Flickr [graph]
by Zarchne on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @04:36AM
(#119579)
As a religious person, I don't find the graph itself to be anti-religion. The teachings of Jesus recorded in the Christian scriptures repeatedly warn that material wealth can interfere with one's relationship with God, and other (many? most?) religions make similar observations. So one way to look at this data is that it simply confirms this precept.
Re:Wealth and Religion on Flickr [graph]
by mynameishere on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @10:00PM
(#119390)
Anti-religious links come up occasionally on reddit and elsewhere. Reddit commentors aren't a good sample of the population, but they are a good sample of the population that is 1) youngish, 2) professional, 3) media-aware, and 4) intellectually self-conscious.
And their attitude toward religion? Contemptuous, resentful, cheeky, mocking. ...it lends me to believe that the 1-4 things I described above simply raise people to a cynicism that won't tolerate the more obvious fairy tales. Nothing too complicated. You aren't dealing with Spinoza here, but just kids who got out of Mayberry.
Anyway, those same 1-4 things (when present in large amounts) are exactly what produce wealth in society.
Re:Wealth and Religion on Flickr [graph]
by run4yourlives on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @11:22PM
(#119428)
>Contemptuous, resentful, cheeky, mocking. ...it lends me to believe that the 1-4 things I described above simply raise people to a cynicism that won't tolerate the more obvious fairy tales.
Not to defend religion, but young people tend to be "Contemptuous, resentful, cheeky, mocking" of pretty much anything that isn't centred around their own world.
And their attitude toward religion? Contemptuous, resentful, cheeky, mocking. ...it lends me to believe that the 1-4 things I described above simply raise people to a cynicism that won't tolerate the more obvious fairy tales. Nothing too complicated. You aren't dealing with Spinoza here, but just kids who got out of Mayberry.
Anyway, those same 1-4 things (when present in large amounts) are exactly what produce wealth in society.
Not to defend religion, but young people tend to be "Contemptuous, resentful, cheeky, mocking" of pretty much anything that isn't centred around their own world.
Is that really a measure of religiosity? Is someone who believes that necessarily more religious than someone who doesn't?