Wealth and Religiosity

108 responses to “Wealth and Religiosity”

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   jgury

   Dec 13, 2012 at 3:43 am

   Resist culty religions in China means Falun Gong in that context and certainly not groups like Mormons. Europe may be exhausted for now from all those centuries of wars of religion but China is global growth target country number one for all Christianity, They are hard at work getting the venerated superior Confucian moral man upgraded with good citizen Christian social values. http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=2027

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   jgury

   Dec 18, 2012 at 7:21 pm

   Resist culty religion in China applies to this kind of group:
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/14/us-china-cult-idUSBRE8...
   
   I like how political they are. Unfortunately the Tai Chi lineage I follow goes back to the more gangster elements there but the fact is they still have strong overlap and haven with the traditional religions due to the necessity of survival underground. That is to say if you get caught teaching the red dragon cult dim mak and poison hands for self defense (regardless of how scientifically phoney you think they are) you are going to be in major league serious trouble there. In that case you are better off hanging out at Father Mickey Chin’s house of Bingo and Kung Fu theater while trying to get out of the country.

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   jurvetson

   Feb 12, 2014 at 5:18 pm

   And from a more recent Pew study: “The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it.”

   

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   jgury

   Feb 12, 2014 at 7:02 pm

   Now they need to get that done with Islamic nation context. 7 out of 10 who attend regular daily prayers say death to Americans by terrorists is often justified, as opposed to 9 out of 10 in the secular world answering always…

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   jurvetson

   Feb 12, 2014 at 7:17 pm

   perhaps you are reading the bottom line of that graph backwards. The secular world is least likely to support torture. Or are you making up those numbers? 70% dark orange would sure differentiate that group if true.

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   jgury

   Feb 12, 2014 at 11:46 pm

   That was a hypothetical case for doing surveys in Iraq, Yemen or Libya. For all I know their religions give them some small basis for not wanting to kill Americans – as opposed to everyone else there. Warlords tend to be more secular than our media portrays them too – like RINOs religious in name only. That was the way it worked for civilization when the Mongols got converted for example. All the other civilizations regarded it as a big step forward at the time.

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   mattpa

   Feb 13, 2014 at 9:41 pm

   Seriously people. This is a graph with a axis of ‘religiocity’ between 0 and 3. Without a detailed explanation of what this is and how it can be quantified so accurately it is entirely a work of art not of statistics.

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   jgury

   Feb 14, 2014 at 2:49 pm

   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtpaley] The kind of survey research that Pew does is detailed enough for what it is – almost completely worthless. Unless there is some tie in marketing group followup for torture, bondage, S&M gear and the 50 shades of grey book club for churchgoers in the US. Not exactly Daniel Kahneman Thinking Fast and Slow in other words. That kind of research is really interesting where they ask short seemingly innocuous questions that they can get big predictive power out of. Which can be abused of course. Like when they would, and probably still do, try to wash atheists out of things like pilot programs in the USAF based on those psych studies. Of course that would not apply to any Yossariran types – when you really need them, who would be presumed lying, joking, or trying to get out of the service.

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