John Ray is having an excellent exchange on Christianity with the rest of the blogosphere-and as a fellow non-Leftist and one of irreligious inclination, I sympathize with his position. Jason Soon is right-Northeast Asians are almost certainly the most irreligious people in the world. Even in the United States, 20-25% of “Asian Americans” (which includes many South & Southeast Asians that would almost certainly give a religious preference) do not have a religion, compared to 10-15% among the general population. In places like London, the white population is very irreligious, while Christianity is seen as a non-white, in particular Afro-British, thing. See the statistics in the chart below to illustrate the faith’s salubrious effect….
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