Re:Don't worry about global population collapse
by rayiner on Saturday September 30, 2023 @08:51PM
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The western world is an exception to the general norm. Virtually everyone in the country where I’m from follows their parent’s religion, for example. Anyway, the folks at Pew are pretty smart. I’m sure they’re accounting for that.
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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse
by jlokom on Saturday September 30, 2023 @10:59PM
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>The western world is an exception to the general norm
I see this quoted a lot, but I don't think it's true:
+ There are plenty of places (and with a significant population) outside the western world that are quite secular and have become more secular in the past decades + There are places in the West that have become more religious. If by "Western" you mean just "Western Europe", then, yeah, that's a specially secular place but it's also a tiny place in both population and area.
China, Japan and South Korea are quite secular in many ways. A big chunk of Latin America is now quite secular too. You already have ~1.5B people fairly secular people that are non western.
On the other hand, countries like Poland or Hungary (which I'm guessing we would classify as Western) are becoming more religious.