What’s religion like where you live?

Mostly Shinto and Buddhist here in Japan. It’s great because no one brings up religion and no one disputes evolution or denies a woman’s right to healthcare because of religious dogma, either. Always jarring to go back to the US and have people bring it up so often and be so irrational about their beliefs.

N.Ireland - Christianity is the main religion in this country. Older people try to push it to an extent with occasional preaching on the town streets but it’s really dying out in the younger generation with most people not attending church and even if they say they believe in god they don’t really practice religion as such.

Politics is a much bigger issue on the island of Ireland than religion. People will identify as Catholic or Protestant here but 90% of the time they’re actually just telling you their stance on a United Ireland as opposed to stating their religious beliefs.

America is hilarious. When I think of idiot Christian’s I think mainly of America.

Indonesia is rife with Islamic bullshit.

The fact that you could fired a governor because of stupid "blasphemy law" shows you how screwed this country is.

And, I don't think we'll ever get a non-muslim president candidate here—considering many muslim here even say "we shouldn't follow or vote a non-muslim leader as it was told in the quran".

Oh don't forget where you'll get whipped/stoned in Aceh if they knew you were Gay.

What a fucking nice country I lived in.

Deep south Mississippi.....church on every corner.....200 foot tall crosses in every county.....ON THE SIDES OF THE HIGHWAY.....so it's jammed down every passer-bys throat....either your a Christian or the devil-incarnate !👹

I live in an Atheist paradise - the Czech Republic.

Like locally? Or in the whole country? I'm from the United States. Where I live locally no one I know personally takes religion seriously. They are only Christian by name for publicity. Overall though, in many places, religion is pushed forcefully. In America, atheists are the least trusted of any group. Christians are very hateful to outsiders. The worst part is creationists trying to get their fairy tales taught in schools. Luckily I live in a very liberal area where most people are too smart to be overly religious. Its funny though because I live in a highly republican state, but in the most liberal area of that state.

In Greece, It's assumed that everyone is Christian, you are going tio be treated like a Christian no matter what, schools only teach Christianity from grade 1 till graduation, there is the option to skip religious lessons or how I call them Christian mythology lessons and instead go to an other class while yours has religious lessons but to do that your parents must do some paper works and legally have their relegation changed to anything other than Christian. Unless you are over 18 but last time I checked 18 year olds don't go to school

Orange County CA, Within 1 mile of a Catholic, Morman church. And Jewish temple. Parking lots pretty much empty. Even on Sunday prime time.

Christianity is already dead in my country, and people are getting fed up with Islam.

As an agnostic atheist living in Turkey, I can say this; There are many views, from militant atheist to radical Islamist, and this can vary depending on different parts of the country. For example, while the Mediterranean and Aegean parts of Turkey are more secular and religiously soft, Central Anatolia and Eastern Anatolia can be more bigoted and religiously strict. I think that the understanding of Islam in Turkey is at least lighter than other Muslim-majority countries. If any of you have been to Turkey before or lived here, they will understand what I mean. I think the reason for this is that Turkey's geographical location is the intersection of many beliefs, and as a result of the soft policies applied by the Ottoman Empire to different beliefs and Atatürk's reforms, rigid thoughts were partially removed. Although it is currently under the guidance of a government with strict religious wrestling, 50-60 percent of Turkey still defends the secular order and being light in its beliefs. I would also like to point out that the number of irreligious people in the country has increased from 2 percent to 15 percent. I think that soon the majority of the non-religious and secular segment will surpass those with religious beliefs. These are my opinions and are open to discussion.

Suburban north east US is primarily xian. Religion is pretty much limited to old folks going to church on Sundays. Churches are reconsolidating because of a decline in attendance. Within business settings religion is rarely mentioned. There is the occasional "He gets us" billboard that is an indication of the desperation that is being felt by the churches.

I’m from Canada which is a secular country we’re free from religion & to practice whatever sky daddy you wish to. My parents were humanist/ atheist I’m fortunate to have never been indoctrinated. We have many religions among us but nothing like the uptick we’re seeing since covid. I’d have to say christianity who are basically “white nationalists” Canadian proud boys who all love trump & than Islam. It wasn’t even a conversation 5 years ago. As a barber I never engaged in religion or politics & it was nobody’s business who anybody voted for NOW so many who WERE in my chair ask if I voted for Trudeau the dictator I change the subject “so you don’t believe gawd has sent trump to save North America ”, 😱 My freedoms aren’t hindered, I travel & I don’t believe in any of the 4000 gawds & we’re not the USA, we’re allies & we have family & friends across the border yes ! What’s I’m seeing now is religion & politics are hand in hand. During covid many people got indoctrinated into religion a few I know went to the FreeDumbConvoy in Ottawa got baptized by a putin puppet. All of a sudden they hate everyone who doesn’t believe in their new found beliefs & give their money to the grifters & send to trump but complain they’re broke! Our conservatives = republicans (going against Trudeau in 2025) are trying to bring religion into schools & institutions & adopt American laws making abortion illegal, legalize guns etc… The majority of us will show them at the voting polls. I don’t care 🤷‍♀️what anyone believes - keep that 💩to themselves 🤦‍♀️

"I’ve seen some American street preachers on YouTube standing outside Pride events, telling these people they can be saved etc. - I can tell you, this wouldn’t go down so well here. You’d be lucky to walk home without a black eye, and I agree that it shouldn’t be tolerated to be honest."

The problem is these assholes *want* you to be violent so they can use it as propaganda on social media.

Australian I hardly notice in my local area Their church around but I never had anyone knock on my door about religion or people preaching I would have to look to find it

New Zealand. Christianity in decline. About 35%...No religion over 50%.

Religion doesn't come up much here in Australia [except when some politician starts something]. Most of the churchgoers I know personally are over 70.

Pathetic. Same as everywhere.

Montreal Quebec Canada- I'm noticing a lot more street preachers down town, I'm thinking of carrying a boom box around so I can drown them out when I have to be near them.

We have a religion started by the prophet Karl Marx. Then, some neighboring country adapted and distorted his words to fit their own ideology. Eventually, it spread here, and further astayed from the words of the prophet. Long story short, a messiah sent by God from the sun saved us from all our sins and we now have a fusion of religion and government where the head of every government department, state-owned company, and public institution is a representative sent by the Parish. The dogmas are taught in every school, and every new religious leader declares a new prophecy and displays it on every wall.

Predominantly Christian but increasingly becoming more diverse. They now have multiple new age/magic shops which wouldn't have slided a few years ago. I think there are even a few secular humanist groups around. 

As a Belgian,

Our religion teacher asked us once what we believed.

Around 10 kids were full blown atheist (nothign happends after death)

Around 10 other kids admitted to being spiritual (there is something after death but idk what)

There was 1 christian.

But it is also noteworthy that my clasroom was one of the least diverse, there were classgroups with loths of foreigners in them who were mostly muslim.

conclusion: christianity is dieing out, islam is on the rise.

Idaho Falls, Idaho. Mormonism is the name of the game. It controls the media, schools, businesses, police, DA's, judges, and everything else. They actually were able to change the 4th of July Celebration from a Sunday to a Saturday. They have done it with Halloween also. Do they shove it down your throat? Yes/no. If you aren't "one of them," forget about much in the way of social circles. You will not be welcomed.

I like in the Northeast of the United States (Pittsburgh) and it is predominantly Christian but tends towards more moderate to liberal Mainline Protestant denominations.

My family are Lutheran and I know there are a lot of Methodist, Presbytarian, and Episcopal (the American version of Anglican). Of course there are also a lot of Roman Catholics here too (lots of Polish and Irish ancestry here), growing up that was the most conservative religion I was exposed to, I was not even aware that fundamentalists and Evangelicals were a thing. There are also some Jehovah's Witnesses, I have had them knock on my door, and maybe Mormons too but I'm not really sure. The baptists tend to be black churches rather than Evangelical churches, but there are some of them as well. Oh, and lots of various Orthodox because there are a lot of Russian and other Eastern European immigrants here as well. And while they aren't common in the city, there are Amish communities a few hours away in Eastern PA as well as Amish a few hours the other way in Ohio, so I have encountered them as well (they are generally nice and peaceful and make delicious birch beer).

We also have a large Jewish community (Pittsburgh is where that Tree of Life shooting was a few years ago) and then to a lesser extent various smaller religions... Our city took in a lot of refugees, so Islam may be the 3rd highest... well 4th because they are still outnumbered by irreligious people... and I know I have seen at least two Buddhist temples and 1 Hindu temple.

I have been stopped in the street by... what I think was a Jehovah's Witness... on several occasions handing me little comics or pamphlets... and as mentioned they occasionally knock at the door and leave their Watchtower newsletter thing. And on at least one occasion some creepy neighbour put a Chick tract in my daughter's trick or treat bag at Halloween. But for the most part the religious types here are the live and let live types who mind their own business and worship in private rather than trying to proselytize to strangers. Other than one occasion of an ignorant little kid telling my child that humans weren't animals I never experienced the science denying type of Christian. Although I do recall years ago working at one of the larger movie theatres in the area there was a protest when one of the Harry Potter films came out with crazy people complaining it promoted witchcraft and devil worship. But for the most part I don't see the same rot that a lot of people here on Reddit encounter.

It varies a lot in the USA. The South has all the insane conservative fire-and-brimstone churches. Here in Minnesota most of the churches are moderate to liberal and openly accept gays. I'm sure that is just in the metro though. They are probably pretty bad in the rural areas.

It's Florida. Can barely drive a mile along the main drag through town without seeing at least three churches. Every once in a while, there's some dude on a corner with a "Honk if you love Jesus" sign. Those "pro-life" billboards are annoying. On the plus side, I can counter some of the wingnuts by making the occasional donation to my local library used bookstore, though of course that only goes so far.

Not too bad here (denver,co area in the US) Colorado is very blue these days due to a huge amount of californians moving here in the last 20 years, rural colorado is a christian nationalist nightmare, but urban areas are pretty liberal, churches are around but sparsely attended. I never really see street preachers etc. I'm not super open about being an atheist, but I'm sure I'd be fine if I was.

Our state elected the nations first openly gay governor back in 2018, who then easily won re-election against a right wing theocrat in 2022, so that feels like a good sign.

As to what religion is around, iirc it's mostly the sort of christians that attend church at christmas and easter and barely ever think abut it otherwise, with a smattering of mormons drifting over from Utah not much else afaik. Boulder also gets us some crazy hippie cults here and there, but they largely keep to themselves.

Pointless, stupid and corrupt. Just like everywhere else.

southwest united states. there is a hugely populated mormon city near where i live, which is really strange to me. For the most part, everyone follows some sort of christian sect, save for the odd jew, hindu, or buddhist.

over a quarter aren’t affiliated with any religion! when i was on dating apps, it was not rare for me to find a fellow atheist. outside of street preachers at my university, or my own family, religion almost never comes up among strangers.

Lots of atheists have low hopes for the USA mostly because of the bible belt, but it’s pretty tolerant here where i am.

It's quite nice to live in Norway: despite having a decent amount of Christians, you rarely get approached by them. 

I was going to comment, but I'm in Wiltshire, England. Which is right next door to OP's Dorset. Funnily enough it's very similar here to the way it's been described there. But I will read with interest how it is elsewhere!

Just moved to Scotland from Ireland. Ireland is quite religious, mostly Catholic (controversial). It's pretty ingrained into society, like I had to attend mass in school and basically everyone has a christening. It wasn't long ago that people that weren't christened could be rejected by schools.

Scotland seems much more relaxed about it all. I've seen religious folk handing out fliers and such but I've not really felt like it's been forced onto me. Though I've not been here that long, someone that grew up here might have better insight.

Christianity here in South Africa, i think they most they do is pray in parliament at the start, probably other areas in the government too but not a 100% sure. In school when we had hall we would pray, all the announcements would be done, sing one or 2 Christian songs then either the school anthem or the national anthem. In our register class at the start of the day we would usually pray too then as we wait for the bell we would listen to some message a local pastor posts on a WhatsApp group each morning.

I'm not sure about black people but white people are all Christian so when your not its usually seen as a shock, teachers would ask me like am i not afraid ill go to hell and stuff like that, you could see they weren't trying to be rude and were more curios than anything, had this one teacher who was fucked about it tho. Had these guys from some church talk to the kids like once or twise a year, handed out card with "The lord is my savoir" stuff on it, a pen or 2, crap like that. You also have Bible studies on Saturday with your church then church on Sunday, religion is as huge part of the Afrikaner history.

Church here is slowly dying out though, only my dad goes to both of those but the 3 times Ive gone with him to events at most there was like 6 people and they were all 50-70. This is only for my city Newcastle, im not sure what some of this is like in other cities and schools

I am the south part of Argentina, and .... there is mostly cristians, a few, and nobody really cares.

There are a lot of churches in my city. I use Sunday morning to go shopping as it is quiet. Are people in church or sleeping in? No idea.

It's bigger.

In a small Pakistani village it’s filled with Islam and certain culture it’s friendly and amazing to go around it’s a bit oppressive to women but I can tell that’s from the culture not the religion

Czech republic. We have one mosque in Prague. 2 largest syngogue in Europe in Pilsen. 0.0001 %muslims. 75% Czech atheist. In Operation Chasida and Operation Balak 1946-1947 smuggling thousands weapons,ammo from 2WW. And aircraft Messershmitt and Spitfire for Hagana. Rifles with swastika i good. In Czech is thousands refugees from Ukraine. And 3 generation Vietnam comunity. Vietnamese is very good speaking Czech. With Vietnamse is no problem

In 60Years Comunist regime chemicals to USA for herbicid AGENT ORANGE. Its absurd. Sorry i dont speak enlish.