They are sending missionaries to eastern Germany. A recent study called Beliefs About God Across Time and Countries found that 52.1% of people asked whether they believed in God identified themselves as atheists. This compared with only 10.3% in western Germany. Indeed, the survey was unable to find a single person under the age of 28 in eastern Germany who believed in God. Obviously there are some – I think I may have even met some once – but the survey was unable to find them. On the face of it this is an extraordinary finding and it is something that needs some careful explanation.
Category Demographics of religion
Katherine Stewart in The Guardian has detailed this scary phenomenon which has been a problem bubbling in the educational undercurrents…
This fascinating piece of research has been reported by the British Humanist Association, which I have reproduced here. What is…
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