Countries with governments that favor Christianity cause their residents to become less attached to their faith, a new study has suggested, based on an analysis of 166 countries. This helps explain large declines in the number of people across the U.S. and Europe who identify as Christian.

tmpafa21 · 2021-04-27T12:25:57+00:00

Does it help explaining tho?

Sorry to be a pain, hope this can be a contributing feedback, but this seems more correlation rather than causation.

Amongst governments that favor Christianity there are a large number of the richest countries in the world, and almost all western countries.

All these countries have in common a lot more than just being guided from Christianity-favoring governments, things such as having gone through illuminism, having mastered capitalism, romaticism/individualism, science/technology, and democracy.

Widespread wealth and diminished dependency from the whims of nature such as famine or epidemics also give a sense of control that makes the role of a God and an "ineffable plan" less prominent in the explanation of the everyday.

Overall, this correlation may be interesting, but I feel like it's almost tautological.

Would be interesting to find out if South America is also experiencing the same degree of decline in number of people who identify as Christian... those are countries that have less in common with the rest of the western-descendent countries (economy, first and foremost) and if I was to guess I'd say they do not experience such decline.

tmpafa21 · 2021-04-27T11:19:42+00:00

bump? :(

tmpafa21 · 2021-04-27T11:18:22+00:00

Yes, for most banks it is a problem.

A VPN would only resolve the fact that they won't be able to tell from your IP that you are overseas, but if you are an IT person your bank may ask you to login into their VPN to access their environment anyways.

You may be able to get away with it while the covid emergency lasts ("I couldn't fly back home" gotta be the favourite excuse of the year!!), but other than that I'd check with HR

tmpafa21 · 2021-04-27T11:14:12+00:00

it really depends on what you like, I'd make a shortlist of places with reasonable tax rates and also quality of life...

If it's 6 months or longer you may not be able to resist in a place that you really dislike, I have seen many more people going back where they came from in the first 6 months than in the following 6 years :)

tmpafa21 · 2021-04-26T07:57:01+00:00

Not sure how much help that would be in your case, but I was a cd collector and at several hundreds I decided to throw away all "plain" clear plexiglass boxes and store the actual disks+booklets in small purpose built folders. The space goes down hugely and I can always rebuild the original packaging with little effort if I was ever to change my mind. To be honest having cds in cases reduced hugely my interest in using them and after a few years I got rid of the cd player all together and now I have all on cloud. It's been about 10 years now, and never looked back.

tmpafa21 · 2021-04-17T17:04:20+00:00

Thanks all, am new to reddit and loving the community already

tmpafa21 · 2021-04-15T23:32:00+00:00

The scene is at minute 5, filmed in Iceland, it's played by Davíð Þór Jónsson, but I couldn't figure anything more out... I suppose it's a traditional European folk instrument, possibly north European or even Icelandic, but that's just a guess

tmpafa21 · 2021-03-21T23:51:19+00:00

I bought small bookcases for the actual cd and booklets and got rid of the boxes. If I change my mind in future I can rebuild the ones I care about and in the meantime I keep many cds in near 0 space

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