Saturday, July 01, 2017
Pentecostals
A detailed Pew study on the diffs between Pentecostals and other Christians in various countries has a lot of expected stuff and a few surprises.
Expected religious diffs: Pentecostals believe in literal scripture and divine healing and direct experience more than other Christians. 80% versus 40% everywhere.
Expected ethnic diffs: Africans of all denominations are exactly 100% opposed to homosexuality. In North and South America, Pentecostals are 80% against, other Christians 50% against. Wife must always obey her husband: N and S America about 20% for all religions, Africans about 80% for all religions.
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A question on causes of economic success has lots of surprises and mysteries. It's not clear what 'Fate' means, and the question as asked doesn't clarify it. Language differences and translation problems may be involved in that variable. The other terms are straightforward.
USA STRONG and Kenya agree that the gov't is important. Brazil and Chile agree that the
gov't is unimportant.
Brazil and Kenya agree that faith in God is important. Only Chile thinks faith
in God is not important.
USA STRONG and Brazil and Nigeria think Fate is fairly important. Kenya and Chile agree that Fate is not important.
Brazil and Guatemala think parents are important. USA STRONG and Kenya think parents are not greatly important.
In general USA STRONG is closer to Kenya than to the Spanish or Portuguese countries. Might explain why we've never had a President with any Iberian genes, but we've had one President with Kenyan genes.
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USA STRONG and Kenya agree that the gov't is important. Brazil and Chile agree that the
gov't is unimportant.
Brazil and Kenya agree that faith in God is important. Only Chile thinks faith
in God is not important.
USA STRONG and Brazil and Nigeria think Fate is fairly important. Kenya and Chile agree that Fate is not important.
Brazil and Guatemala think parents are important. USA STRONG and Kenya think parents are not greatly important.
In general USA STRONG is closer to Kenya than to the Spanish or Portuguese countries. Might explain why we've never had a President with any Iberian genes, but we've had one President with Kenyan genes.
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