Comment Re:Sigh (Score 1) 2155
Relax.. without brain-draining other countries, you'd at least still be living in cottages and not caves, thanks to European colonists. >;)
Seriously though, it's not much to do with religion as much as the *type* of religious people, methinks.
Germany is not too far off the top of the list, yet a substantial amount of their population profess Christianity/Catholicism. Two of the three parties that make up the ruling coalition party in Germany at the moment are the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel]
IMHO, the difference between religious people in USA and those in Germany though, would be that the Americans take a more literal view of the Bible, whereas the Germans understand that the Bible speaks in allegories etc and is *not* a scientific document explaining precisely how we came about.
Yup, I'm a christian who believes in evolution.
Seriously though, it's not much to do with religion as much as the *type* of religious people, methinks.
Germany is not too far off the top of the list, yet a substantial amount of their population profess Christianity/Catholicism. Two of the three parties that make up the ruling coalition party in Germany at the moment are the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel]
IMHO, the difference between religious people in USA and those in Germany though, would be that the Americans take a more literal view of the Bible, whereas the Germans understand that the Bible speaks in allegories etc and is *not* a scientific document explaining precisely how we came about.
Yup, I'm a christian who believes in evolution.
