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Paula wrote: He also scored countries on their degree of religiosity, as determined by such measures as church attendance, belief in a creator deity and acceptance of Bible literalism. Just to raise an issue of scientific rigor, none of the above exhaust the parameters of religiosity. Church attendance is not a measure of belief; many people who believe in a deity do not attend church. Likewise, a creator deity is not the only type of spiritual being in which people demonstrate faith. Finally, bible literalism is certainly only a caricature of religiosity in general, fundamentalism being a very narrow subset of the wife range of belief systems extant. This is why scientists need to study theology and sociology of religion instead of circumnavigating their own very narrow subset of specialization. Greg McDonald ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
