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.
Gee, yet another country that is far more enlightened than America.
Oh well, I think we're getting there.
Aren't they worried that they'll go, you know, to hell? Or North Dakota? Just wonderin.
ReplyDeleteSounds like my place to escape to. Mid way between the US and Western Europe to warm up
ReplyDeletewarm up?? I lived there for a few years as a kid, and we had about 1 day a year that reached 60 degrees (Farenheit)... it is beautiful, though.
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Lotta Pagans there too, I understand. I've got to admire people who will route roads around hills that elves occupy. I know you're atheist, Gryphen, but I know a lot of Christians who think angels are real- and if the Icelanders feel the hill is occupied by an elf, I'm going to support them. I wouldn't mess with an elf, either. Mostly they ignore humans but they can get testy.
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The God/Nature: Only single name for the absolute place or Nature or God or Dark energy or absolute time sole dimension or sole dimension of power of the things of the universe, great space or the location the center of the connectors between the great world or the great universes, location of the beginning or ending or the most deepest place, same location of place period or the matter, location of the big black hole or primordial black hole or before big bang, huge reserve of the natural force etc, is Nature (The God).
ReplyDeleteBig Bang: At the time of the beginning of the creation or from the absolute zero of time or from the God or big black hole or a black hole or Nature, part of the power of the Nature became divisible as a result of the big bang. The part of energy had been divided in the beginning of creation from the large field of energy, which is below 50% of total energy. In the most of natural power reserved in big black hole from which, the world of gravitation become influenced. See at https://shahidurrahmansikder.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/big-bang/
Evolution: “Everything of the world of matter including the present visible unit is the result of evolution from the big bang”. The changing function of everything in the universe is going on always. The present scenery was not similar with past and also will not resemble with the future, the present and past space-time energy absolute zero of absolute time. As per formula of evolution; See at https://shahidurrahmansikder.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/21/
See- God or Dark Energy, Big Bang, Evolution and Early Universe, My DEMO Final https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYcnbwUKUEM New Discovery of the Universe: can be found at http://lnkd.in/Sn6wPK the Universe creation or creator or religious- can be found at http://t.co/OQDPbAg
The closest I got was Finland and was genuinely impressed, and I thought it was like dying and going to, well, a better place, I don't believe in Heaven/Hell.
ReplyDeleteTheir outlook on life, work, and family are fantastic and church and state are clearly separate.
I've always wanted to visit this place, now I KNOW I wanna go!
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