Top 50 most non religious nations

This is very interesting research: "Top 50 Most Non-Religious Nations". Sweden is on top, No.2 is Vietnam, No.3 is Denmark, and No.4 is Norway. Apparently, Northern European countries are non-religious nations. Then, Japan is No.5. I don't know how they did this ranking, what kind of research, or what kinds of questions they used. I may agree that the Japanese are not very religious. Many Japanese don't have any religious customs like going to church on Sunday or praying at a certain time of the day. I guess Japan is ranked so high because all textbooks teach "evolution". Here is another ranking: "Did human beings develop from animals?" In this ranking, Japan is No.5 and Northern European countries are above us again. France is No. 4, but it looks like they follow the Geocentric model, not Heliocentrism. Here is a video from Youtube: quiz millionaire.

But I would like to say that the Japanese are very open to many religions and we don't have any strict images, rules, or limits of religion. Christ is "kamisama" (god), Buddha is a some kind of "kamisama" (not really, but we don't care and we don't have such clear distinctions, even in Buddhism), a set of seven different "Kamisama", Sun is "kamisama", forest is "kamisama", snake is "kamisama", etc.

Comments

[mari]

Lulu thank you for your comments.
Yes I agree, I don't think we are non religious people.

[Lulu]

While a lot of Japanese people are unsure about what religion they are I wouldn`t say they are non-religious. If someone dies then usually the family will have a funeral at the buddist temple. If people have babies they usually take them to a shrine right? And the mother will dress in kimono (sometimes). Some people have shinto weddings at shrines....

Most Japanese people I know will definitely visit (Unless they are strict buddhist) a shrine around new year. A lot of families still have kamidana also!

In Australia, there are certainly very religious people but others while they may say they are Catholic, or Anglican might not have set foot in a church for 10 yrs or more (I was born and baptised Catholic but rarely go to church or pray)......Will have to check out where they ranked Australia!

I also wonder how they determined which countries were more religious than others. I have never thought of Japan as a `non-religious` country before....

Thanks for the links! Have a nice day!