In my opinion, our people, anywhere in the world, are very religious, not due to being mostly Catholic, or even due to being mostly Christian, but simply due to being Filipino. A few days ago—timed
for Ash Wednesday—SWS issued an Instagram report, “Fourth Quarter 2022 Social Weather Survey: 7 out of 10 adult Filipino Catholics pray at least once daily,” www.sws.org.ph, 2/20/23. But a supplementary table, posted on 2/22/23, also shows that daily praying is done by 93 percent of Iglesia ni Cristos and 75 percent of other Christians .A second table of 2/22/23 shows that 58 percent of Filipino Muslims pray the Salah every day, and 38 percent pray it “sometimes.
For comparison, those with no-doubts-about-God are 31 percent in “Catholic” Spain and 54 percent in the “Protestant” United States, our former colonizers. They are 36 percent in “Buddhist” Thailand, and 3 percent in “Buddhist-Shinto” Japan. The numbers for those saying, “I find myself believing in God sometimes, but not at others,” are: PH 4, ES 9, US 3, JP 9, and TH 10.
The numbers for outright atheists, who say, “I don’t believe in God,” are: PH 0.6, ES 17, US 5, JP 11, and TH 24. The Philippines is the least atheistic among the 35 ISSP countries. The most atheistic is the Czech Republic .We learn about ourselves by observing other peoples. Though the Philippines stands out in the ISSP dataset, other countries with equally strong belief in God are Georgia, which is mainly Orthodox Christian, and Turkey, which is mainly Muslim.
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