How, in 2020, does Pew use "belief in God" across all religious traditions?
Capital-G "God" is *quite* the term to use when describing the object of belief in both the United States and, say, India.
And no, the report does not address this.
Capital-G "God" is *quite* the term to use when describing the object of belief in both the United States and, say, India.
And no, the report does not address this.
https://twitter.com/PewReligion/status/1313167517393846272
You're going to have a hard time convincing me that the 79% of people in India who answered yes to this question think of the word "God" in a significantly similar way to folks in Sweden, Turkey, or the US.
But that doesn't even occur to Pew???
But that doesn't even occur to Pew???
The really irritating thing is that underneath this clumsy terminology is an important question: whether a society assumes that morality is tied to an essential, transcendent source. That's a serious question with real-world effects. But don't conflate it all with Christianity.
An alien reading this report would have every reason to believe that there is in fact one single purported entity named "God" and that it is reasonable to ask everyone on the planet their thoughts on this guy.
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