More tolerant? I woudn't say that socialist-minded nordic coutries are tolerant at all...
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I concur Fargo, North Dakota is more tolerant than Oslo, Norway from my observation. And North Dakota is pretty red.
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They are both intolerant in different ways (never been to Fargo, but I imagine what it is like). Nordic coutries are more of orwallian dystopias.
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Nope totally disagree with the orwellian distopia. Their structure is something worth striving for. Controlled capitalism, redistribution of wealth. I believe that Sweeden population 9 million has almost as many Iraq refugees than USA... That's something...
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Prime examples: Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Khmer Rouge Cambodia....
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I’m not sure these is valid. Maybe it is the other way around. Prosperity makes you frget your religion as you live comfortably and get numb
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Wilhelm Ropke had a more nuanced and useful view: The market encourages BETTER out-group behavior (toward strangers, "infidels") but LESS INTENSIVE in-group behavior. So you leave religious ghettos, are exposed to more variant opinions.
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Yes, because if you are a non-believer then all the responsibility is upon you to improve your lives. With God, it's easy to throw all the burden upon him who does not exist and remain inactive. The believers think he will solve all d problems and everything remains unsolved.
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The problem with this study is that it equates all religions as "religion" when all beliefs are most certainly not equal. Secondly, the data starts at the beginning of the 1900s. At that point, the West was already on a steady path of secularization if not already so.
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Only 1 religion separates church and state, is based on love and compassion, universalism, and came up with "love your enemy".
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It's likely the other way around, as natiosns become wealthier and provide more and more in social benefits starting from schooling and then going on to health care, unemployment allowance, social housing, Higher education the society becomes less dependent on God
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Three fallacies in one sentence. Prosperity (however measured) is not contingent on apostasy. Irrelgiosity is not equivalent to to tolerance. Tolerance (acceptance) is not applied to the devout by atheistic societies. Weber was wrong on many levels, his bigotry the least of them.
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Which is why it is a tragedy that the U.K. is encouraging faith schools. Religion should be an educated, informed choice, not an inheritance.
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The secular neutrality fallacy is still alive and kicking, I see. Anyway, every faith school worth investing in does teach critical thinking, and encourages their children to a point where they can either own their faith or choose to disown it in an informed, intelligent way.
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I noticed that too - the article contained not a scrap of evidence to substantiate the move from correlation to causation. But maybe the actual study does.
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