Religion and Singapore

There has recently been a long and intense discussions going on at tomorrow.sg over the issue of religion (particularly Christianity) and over a local church’s cult-like service.

I have been an atheist for years but have never spoken much about it for I know it is pointless to discuss anything on the topic of religion when theists already have absolute opinions on their own beliefs.

Recently this issue has bothers me a little as I have noticed that instead of the diminishing influence of religion in this country as it is happening in most part of the world, more and more people, especially the youths and foreigners (esp. students), are subscribing to religions, especially and almost exclusively to Christianity. I find this phenomenon extremely disturbing. What good are the improvements of education system in the country and the facilities and infrastructures to promote a thinking society when most and increasingly more of its people are not thinking.

Blindly following some ideology that is being created centuries ago and then interpret it according to today’s situation and even claiming that it should be the ’science’ is worrying. With the rate that the religion activities are increasing in this country, I frankly am afraid to think of the future of the people in this country.

January 21st, 2007 / 4 Comments / Trackback

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I am not sure abt the trend of other parts of the world, but the OECDs are among the least religious societies on Earth - with the exception of the US with its uniquely high level of religious literalism and opposition to theory of evolution.

From the UN Human Development Reports, the 50 countries ranked lowest in terms of human development are consistently and unwaveringly religious.

xiaoluo on January 21st, 2007 at 2:08 pm

I don’t think this is a new phenomenon. Even 15 years ago, the number of people proselytising (guess that’s what it is) in local schools was quite high. Not just students, but teachers as well. One of our topics for GP then was religion, and boy, that was a minefield, particularly when your GP teacher herself was a rather fervent christian. I got no end of heckling when the class found out I was a freethinker. I thought that was bad until they found out I was into fantasy roleplaying games as well.

I call myself a scientific secular humanist now, that confuses the local religious crowd long enough for me to make my escape.

Yes, I agree it’s a disturbing trend, and yet, I can’t see a good solution either.

ff on January 21st, 2007 at 2:09 pm

Like ff mentioned this is certainly not a new phenomenon. Wired magazine has a good article about atheism and raise self consciousness

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/atheism.html

Liew on January 21st, 2007 at 3:34 pm

the way i see it, it is just like how ladies night work…esp if you are talking about some happening churches

astroboy on February 9th, 2007 at 6:09 pm

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