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The Global God Divide
Europeans somewhat mixed on the importance of religion, but overall less committed
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- The Global God Divide
- Majorities in emerging economies connect belief in God and morality
- Many say religion is important and God plays an important role in their lives, less consensus on belief in God and morality
- Most in Western Europe say belief in God not needed to be moral
- Countries with higher GDP per capita less likely to tie belief in God to morality
- Wide age gaps in most countries on whether belief in God is morally necessary
- Those on the ideological right more likely to say belief in God is necessary
- Europeans somewhat mixed on the importance of religion, but overall less committed
- In most countries, a majority say God plays an important role in their life
- Religiously unaffiliated people are much less inclined to see God as important in their lives
- Morality and belief in God by religious affiliation
- Economic categorization
- Importance of God has declined in many European nations since 1991, but has increased in former Soviet Union
- Those with more education less likely to see belief in God as necessary
- Those with higher incomes less likely to see belief in God as necessary
- Connection between belief in God and morality over time