Nearly 60 percent of people from eastern Germany said that they didn’t believe in God and never had. In the rest of Germany, fewer than one in ten people said the same, and in the United States fewer than one in twenty share this view.
The question of what caused this unique cultural environment in which there is not just a decline of institutional religion, which we also observe elsewhere in the Western world, but a widespread absence of faith altogether is well worth asking.
Many studies have indicated that there is a correlation between faith and education. Globally, atheists have undergone more years of schooling than the average population. This would imply that to stop believe in God involves some form of intellectual choice.
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