Reply to Re: UK one of the least religious countries in the World
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Maybe some other Finn on this site can give their views on the matter.
I'm not a Finn, but I'll give my view anyway.
Measuring this is hard. What is a good metric for the religiousness of a country? As I understand it, this research used self-identification (asking people if they feel religious) with a simple true/false answer. As you point out, that may not be what you think of when you compare religiousness: a country where everyone says "yes, I'm religious, but I don't really care" gets the same score as one where everyone says "we should kill all the non-believers".
But it's still an interesting map. Note that white may mean "very nonreligious" as in Japan and China, or "no data available" as in most of Africa. Given the parts of Africa that have data, it seems the entire continent is probably very religious.
I'm not a Finn, but I'll give my view anyway.
Measuring this is hard. What is a good metric for the religiousness of a country? As I understand it, this research used self-identification (asking people if they feel religious) with a simple true/false answer. As you point out, that may not be what you think of when you compare religiousness: a country where everyone says "yes, I'm religious, but I don't really care" gets the same score as one where everyone says "we should kill all the non-believers".
But it's still an interesting map. Note that white may mean "very nonreligious" as in Japan and China, or "no data available" as in most of Africa. Given the parts of Africa that have data, it seems the entire continent is probably very religious.
