First of all i recently found out that 80-90% of people here in Czech Rep. does not believe in any kind of theistic god. ( I'm not sure about validity of that poll , but even if it is not true , the figure is surely bigger than 60% and even that number makes us i suppose ( or not ?? ) the most atheistic country in the world , oficially maybe after North Korea. )
Also i was recently visiting few christian sites and found the stories very similar to those i read on some American atheist pages , just inverted. They were complaining about how it is hard to be only christian in the class and how even teachers are "against" them sometimes ridiculing some christian ideas.
Next thing was something i always kind of known , but realized it just recently after viewing some American ( not only ) shows and articles. Here it is probably the far right ( after the communist party of course ) that is very anti-religious , i would say more than social-democrats ( not that they are pro
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And the last one was the first impulse that got me thinking about it recently. When i was going to visit my parents , i met 4 other people in our coupe. We were all strangers and we started talking and somehow got to religion and the decision was unanimous that religion is something archaic , which do not really belong in this century. And in that moment i remembered how similar situation happend just about 100km across the border in Poland , also in the train , when i was nearly stoned to death ( metaphorically of course
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So the question is : Why is it so ?
We had few theories , but not explaining anything really , like :
That 40 years of communist government did this , but to disprove this it is enough to point out the Poland with its probably 90+% of catholics.
Or , rather silly , that people are just more rational here , but that is simply not true , because they believe in any other kind of nonsense as willingly as anywhere else.
Of course that would be ( if it is not anyway ) stupid thread to ask that question specifically about Czeh Rep. , but i would rather like to discuss how is it in other countries ( perhaps except USA , and maybe Canada and UK , because it has been discussed quite extensively already , but in the end why not ). And of course to discuss the reasons for this.
If this looks like stupid and boring thread , or like a rant , feel free to move it or delete it.