Superstition in China
• Asian , • Skeptics & Atheists
Even the world's most powerful atheist state - any, no I wouldn't want to live there or for America to be like China - finds the fight against belief in what isn't there a tough task.
From the People's Daily:
The result of the 3rd sample survey conducted by China Association For Science & Technology (hereinafter referred to as CAST) among the Chinese public, soliciting their opinion about unknown phenomena and other related problems, was lately released in the China Hall of Science & Technology.
The result shows that compared with 1998, the proportion of those who believe in fortune-telling falls by 9 percentage points, though it still accounts for over 25 percent; the proportion of those who think that "practice geomancy" is reasonable drops from 51.2 percent to 38.6 percent; the proportion of those who believe in super-functions shrinks from 29 percent to 20.4 percent, and the proportion of those who have faith in samsara sinks from 17.7 percent to 11.5 percent.