I live in a urban suburb in NSW Austrailia, and it has come to my attention, that by observing the religious views of the teenagers in my high school, there is an absurd amount of people who have absolutely no faith in God, or have any other religious aspects in their lives. Where I am right now, it isn't "cool" to be affiliated with church or religion. It just seems to me that the older generations have been a lot more accepting of this sort of affiliation, and even in our country wide statistics, there has been a significant drop of Catholics and Christians and a higher rise of Atheists and Agnostics. (I'm not saying the other religions aren't important, just that these are the two most popular in our country.)
Our country tries to shy away from it as much as possible. Put us next to America for example. Where we try to avoid any debates of religious sayings, there is a huge difference of opinion where their leader says "God bless America." Those sorts of things are pretty much unheard of here. There are plenty more examples I could give but this one came off the top of my head.
Maybe I have a biased opinion, but if there is anything that anyone would like to add, that would be great. I am not up for debates that would offend or harm anyone, but only those who want to talk about their opinion of the supposed deflation of faith. Thank you. Any country review is welcome.
Our country tries to shy away from it as much as possible. Put us next to America for example. Where we try to avoid any debates of religious sayings, there is a huge difference of opinion where their leader says "God bless America." Those sorts of things are pretty much unheard of here. There are plenty more examples I could give but this one came off the top of my head.
Maybe I have a biased opinion, but if there is anything that anyone would like to add, that would be great. I am not up for debates that would offend or harm anyone, but only those who want to talk about their opinion of the supposed deflation of faith. Thank you. Any country review is welcome.
April 15th, 2013 at 08:48am