Posted on 01/15/2016 9:02:07 PM PST by massmike
Iceland seems to be on its way to becoming an even more secular nation, according to a new poll. Less than half of Icelanders claim they are religious and more than 40% of young Icelanders identify as atheist. Remarkably the poll failed to find young Icelanders who accept the creation story of the Bible. 93.9% of Icelanders younger than 25 believed the world was created in the big bang, 6.1% either had no opinion or thought it had come into existence through some other means and 0.0% believed it had been created by God.
The poll, which was conducted by the polling firm MaskÃna on behalf of Siðmennt, The Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association, an association of Icelandic atheists, found that 46.4% of Icelanders identify as religious, which is the lowest figure to date.
Older people are far more likely to profess religious beliefs and to identify as Christian than those who are younger. 80.6% of those older than 55 identified as Christian and only 11.8% said they were atheists. At the same time 40.5% of people who were 25 years or younger said they were atheists, and only 42% said they were Christian. Traditional Christian beliefs also seem more common outside of ReykjavÃk, where 77-90% of people identified as Christian and 7.1-18 were atheists, compared to 56.2% of people in ReykjavÃk who identified as Christian and 31.4% as atheist.
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Now Bjork is evil and if there is evil that suggests the existence of God, for one cannot exist without the other.
They won't be without a religion for long.
The poll was commisioned by the atheist society. No total of how many polled. Atheism is a religion itself.
Whether one believes in God or they don’t if you buy that all of the universe was compressed into one little ball and just suddeny exploded—— then basically you are an idiot.
Everyone knows that.
No need for a Creator.
Good, now we know where to send the refugees.
didn’t ya hear? Hawkins says there needn’t have been a catalyst.
could have been just expanding and contracting over and over forever.
that’s HARDER to believe than a God!
the little bang? :)
then it grew up and became the bing bang
They’re going to miss all that ice someday.
Crazy. Just crazy.
Even in the repetitive expansion-contraction system, how did it come to be? That’s God to me.
When did forever start? Athiest confound me.
just what the heck is going on, actually?!?! lol.
I am Christian but boy your mind can go insane trying to figure out the big picture.
i’ll let God do the heavy thinking :)
Iceland is ripe for Islamic invasion, for the faithless can not stand up to Islam.
To bad, so sad.
Bad? Yes. Sad? Yes. However I’d take 100 countries like that over 1 radical muslim country and yes they are all radical.
Warmer weather coming for them.
” Who or what created the big bang?”
I’m sure you would say God.
But then one can ask who created God.
Believing that something always existed is just as tough as believing that something came out of nothing.
Of course one can believe anything, but as far as knowing, we don’t know. I never understood why people have such a hard time admitting that they don’t know something.
If you believe in nothing you’ll fall for anything.
All religions originate in hot weather with fear of hot hell. In Iceland, they would love some eternal err warmth.
Socialists and atheists
QUICK...send the Syrian refugees there! Muslim state in 10 years
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