Your thoughts and observations? Thanks!
2006-09-11 12:08:20 · 22 answers · asked by TubeDude 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Absolutely not - a sense of national pride and love of your country has nothing to do with a religious faith.
I'm in Australia and majority of us are fiercly proud of our country for what it represents to us, a sense of place and identity and an ecclectic population that endears us to both rural and urban landscapes. It is not a religious faith that invokes these feelings and love for our country
From an Aussie point of view, this question raises an eyebrow.
2006-09-11 12:16:11 · answer #1 · answered by LadyRebecca 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After reading some of the other answers, I'm sure mine won't be very popular, but.....Yes! It seems that people of faith do tend to be more patriotic. I don't know why it should be that way, though. The patriotism and heroism of past and present have given both the faithful and the faithless the same freedoms.
2006-09-11 19:45:06 · answer #2 · answered by pastortobe 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They think they are when they pledge fealty to God and Country. But actually it's a divided loyalty and often the God part comes before the Country part.
Patriotism is relative to nationality and varies depending on the foundation of the nation involved. Most nations are founded on geographical location, while some are founded on religion as well. America may be the only country founded on ideals.
Men who appreciate and believe in those ideals may be he most patriotic of all, and those men don't need a theology to bolster their loyalty to this country.
2006-09-11 19:21:26 · answer #3 · answered by Grist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the Humanists and atheists I know are at least as patriotic as the Christians, Jews, Muslims, Wiccans, and other persons of faith that I know. There doesn't seem to be any correlation between religion (or lack of) and patriotism.
2006-09-11 19:10:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I don't tend to feel very connected to a corrupt government that rules over a large mass of land. I don't think patriotism is a very good thing to have in abundance, after all, it is a thin line between patriotism and nationalism (remember all the people that supported the Nazi party?).
2006-09-11 19:11:14 · answer #5 · answered by reverenceofme 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
No, it doesn't matter if one's religious or non-religious. Both can be equally patriotic. Me being Christian, I suppose the Muslim terrorists attacked America beacause it's mainly Christian; its a probabilitly that the Christians might have been more patriotic, but then again... I'll say it doesn't matter if one's religious or not... but it matters if one loves his or her country.
2006-09-11 19:17:52 · answer #6 · answered by LC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People with faith tend to be more closed-minded and wouldn't question what the gov't did. So if you mean unwilling to disagree with something the gov't does, then yes.
2006-09-11 19:13:48 · answer #7 · answered by Toronto 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think Atheist are more patriotic than religious people. On many occasions xians have expressed their first alegion to a god and not to our country. That is proof to me
2006-09-11 19:14:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not in the UK (where I am)
There is a strong tie between the church and the American government.
Islam is not just a religion, bt a way of life, it teaches to honour your country and respect it. there are bits of the Koran that can be translated into bigoted nationalist properganda. But then this can be said about any religion.
2006-09-11 19:11:24 · answer #9 · answered by Chris F 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is a chance that that is true. It seems people with no faith in a God lacks faith in everything, questions everything and will never be happy with anything. Chaos comes from the devil and the faithless are his playground.
2006-09-11 19:13:06 · answer #10 · answered by TheMightyOne 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋