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There is a side, which might be called the optimistic (in the Leibnizian sense) who believe in continuous improvement in human progress, in advancing and unstoppable cumulative knowledge and science, in the gradual elimination of the false and miserable, superstitions and hoaxes.

On the other hand, is the side of the pessimistic (perhaps a la Sartre), we considered convicted, imprisoned by the limitations inherent in our nature to immobilism noumenal or eternal return (some even proposing biological constraints derived from a genotype magufo intrinsically human), in which traditional religious beliefs are replaced by nuevaerense metaphysics, the Masalles , new sects, ecoilógico pantheism or outright crap rehash of the ancient peoples who still lived in communion with his environment and such. My friend

RVR tells this week in Spain seems that religious beliefs decrease, especially in urban settings, youth and university students, at least according to the barometer March 2007 CIS.

The Web Carles Vilar (I suspect it is a Christian ecumenical biblical appointments and for publishing in Catholic.net ) tells us that in Spain we have the following percentages:

• 3% of atheists.
  
• 3% of pseudo-atheists (believe in life after death but not in God?).
  
• 18% of agnostics (I suspect that most in the sense of unsettled or interest, and not according to the definition of agnostic gives DRAE ).
  

Although according to the latest statistic (WVS 2000), the figures are 12% Atheists, 2% pseudo-atheists and agnostics 5.5%.

In Adherents.com, among other interesting facts such as the 15,000 chuetas in Majorca or the 15,000 Roma in Madrid, gives a 20% non-religious in Spain (although a 1998 figure comes from Nazarene. org ). The

Wikipedia says that 17'4% of the English did not recognize any religion (atheists or unbelievers), according to CIS 2005. A web

important issue of religious statistics (although it focuses on the U.S.) is the Association Religious Data Archives.

In short, the better to obtain data applicable to Spain is to leave the CIS .

The results of the barometer April 2005 we can see things like

• 46'7% believe that better defines the figure of Pope John Paul II is its human quality. In fact they are already ahead of schedule beatifying as Mother Teresa of Calcutta. I guess his support for the controversial Opus Dei is offset by the excommunication of Lefebvre Cardinal.
  
• A 11% non-believers and atheists 6% (I guess they are also non-believers).
  

The other study art that appears on the web is the 2443 on attitudes and beliefs . In it we see that:

• Religion occupies a medium importance (5'3 of 10), although less among young people (4'0) than older (6'3), and lowest among those who have university degrees (4.5) than among those with no education (6.8).
  
• A 55'7% believe that religion is important for education de los hijos.
  
• Un 53'6% no están de acuerdo con que las creencias religiosas sean cada día más necesarias.
  
• Un 52'1% opina que confiamos demasiado en la ciencia y no lo suficiente en la fe religiosa.
  
• Sobre la enseñanza de religión en la escuela, la mayoría se decanta por " debería darse la posibilidad de elegir " (aunque esta frase es ambigua).
  
• Un 72'5% cren que la religión hoy tiene menos influencia que la que tenía hace diez años, y un 64'9% creen que dentro de 10 años tendrá menos influencia que hoy.
  
• Hay un 11'5% de no creyentes y un 6% de ateos.
  
• Un 5'4% más bien no creen in God, and 9'2% do not believe at all (and I wonder, will the remaining 2.9% the previous point believe and not believe?). 41'1%
  
• A strong belief in heaven, but only 34'2% believe in angels. 25.9%
  
• A firm believer in Hell, but only 22'6% believe in the devil (those who believe in hell without the Devil must be the same as those of Heaven without angels XD).
  
• The men are described as less religious than women, fewer young people than old, and people with higher education less than those with no education.
  
• A 63'7% were married by the church (one 92'6% of married people was by the church).
  
• 78'5% baptize a child (a 94'5% of the children are baptized, and 90'7% have made or will make a first communion). While 46% say to baptize children at birth is more a habit than a duty.
  
  And some data on other maguferías ...
  
• A 39'7% believe in another life after this.
  
• A 17'3% believe in reincarnation ( inconceivable )
  
• A 20'2% believe in spirits, and 9.3% believe in horoscopes.
  
• A 18.5% had consulted a psychic, healer or witch.
  

The photo is from the collection of JAM Sanctorum Montoya , which caused the closure of Yahoo Cyberateos or termination of PP to the Junta de Extremadura .