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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/2…
From that Forbes study from just last year, the ten "happiest" countries:
1. Denmark
2. Finland
3. Netherlands
4. Sweden
5. Ireland
6. Canada
7. Switzerland
8. New Zealand
9. Norway
10. BelgiumAnyone who has paid attention knows that Denmark and Sweden are among the least religious nations in the world. Polls asking about belief in God, the importance of religion in people’s lives, belief in life after death or church attendance consistently bear this out.
It is also well known that in various rankings of nations by life expectancy, child welfare, literacy, schooling, economic equality, standard of living and competitiveness, Denmark and Sweden stand in the first tier.
Well documented though they may be, these two sets of facts run up against the assumption of many Americans that a society where religion is minimal would be, in Mr. Zuckerman’s words, “rampant with immorality, full of evil and teeming with depravity.”
Which is why he insists at some length that what he and his wife and children experienced was quite the opposite: “a society — a markedly irreligious society — that was, above all, moral, stable, humane and deeply good.”
- you pick and choose your polls, the other ones conflicting results and they're not all in europeeieio
- Pretty fascinating isn't it? You could also point out that these are all countries that look out for the common good in terms of their economic systemsukit
- of their economic systemsukit
- AKA "Socialism"ukit
- I've seen national geographic studies on how happy Indians are due to their largely secular life styleseieio
- *non- secular life styles like buddhismeieio
- What do you mean, I posted the three first polls I could find and they all contained a large number of European countries and especially Scandinavianukit
- and especially Scandinavianukit
- and the phillipeens among others like i saideieio
- How does Nat Geo help your point then?Mimio
- Maybe that's just cause the Philipines is a cool place to live with beaches and shit;)ukit
- it helped my point because of India, honestly I've read many studies about how happy India is and Philipeans isn't far away reletivlyeieio