Whereas Kant and those he affected regard God as elusive to our rationality, for G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831) God is the essence of rationality. Raphael stated that he was in communication with the Syrian Orthodox Bishop of Brooklyn with regard to the Syrians here, and hoped that something would be done in regard to their spiritual welfare. The Syrian Orthodox Bishop of Brooklyn at the time was St. Raphael Hawaweeny. Anglicans/Episcopalians in Jordan are under the oversight of the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem. The Church’s world leader, the Pope, is the Bishop of Rome, hence the special relationship between Italians and the Church-and the latter’s entanglement with Italian politics (see also Lateran Treaty and the section below on religion and politics). Jewish communities in the world. The percentages vary slightly in different cities and regions, for instance the south of Jordan and cities like Zarqa have the highest percentage of Muslims, while Amman, Irbid, Madaba, Salt, and Karak have larger Christian communities than the national average, and the towns of Fuheis, Al Husn and Ajloun have either majority Christian or much greater than national average. The 2018 Eurobarometer survey showed that 85.6% of Italy’s population was Christian (78.9% Catholics, 4.6% Orthodox Christians, 0.6% Protestants, 1.5% other Christians), while 2.6% belonged to other religions and 11.7% were non-religious (7.5% atheists, 4.2% agnostics).

According to a 2023 Ipsos survey, 68% of the country’s residents adhered to Christianity, including 61% Catholics, 4% Protestants and 3% other Christians, 28% were irreligious, 2% preferred not to say, 1% were Muslims and 1% adhered to other religions. The rest are Latin or Greek Rite Catholics, Syrian Orthodox, Protestants and Armenians., ibid. Some public schools are run by religious institutions, but are required to hold to the same standard as other public schools. A survey taken in 1988, shortly after Nancy and Ronald Reagan’s use of an astrologer became public knowledge (see below: The President and the Astrologer) showed that overall American belief in astrology had declined to 12 percent, from 29 percent in 1978. However, more than 50 percent of teens reported belief. Thanksgiving is an American public holiday that is being celebrated for a time long before America became a nation. The 2012 Global Religious Landscape survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (an American think tank) found that 83.3% of Italy’s residents were Christians, 12.4% were irreligious, atheist or agnostic, 3.7% were Muslims and 0.6% adhered to other religions. By the numbers, in 2023 the country was home to around 2.3 million Muslims and 1.8 million Orthodox Christians.

In 2022, it was noted that the country has a small number of Buddhists, Hindus, Zoroastrians and Yazidis. While Rastafari were once persecuted by the government of Jamaica and routinely harassed by police looking for then-illegal cannabis, the government has since taken steps to accommodate Rastafari, including the decriminalization of the possession of small amounts of cannabis for religious purposes in 2015, and formal apologies coupled with financial reparations for past actions against the Rastafari community, such as the Coral Gardens incident. While Cortés was away from Tenochtitlán, something tragic happened. For instance, according to a 2014 Doxa poll: 80% of women defined themselves as “Catholic”, while 69% of men did so; 80% of the people in the age group above 55 defined themselves as Catholic, while 8% said to be irreligious or atheist and another 7% described themselves as “without religious reference”; among people aged between 15 and 34, percentages were 68%, 13% and 12%, respectively; in Southern Italy, 85%, 6% and 5%, respectively; in the North-West, 62%, 16% and 13%, respectively. According to Doxa (another Italian research centre) in 2014, 75% of Italians were Catholic.

Research involving decapitation raises questions about the suffering of subjects and the moral implications of using such methods for scientific exploration. War on suffering until immortality. The Thirty Years’ War was fought between 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of today’s Germany, and involved most of the major European powers. The fundamental breakthroughs in the major branches of experimental science occurred in Europe in the 1600s. The founders of the major branches of science were Bible believing Christian men such as Isaac Newton (physics), Francis Bacon (the scientific method) and Robert Boyle (chemistry) to name a few. Ecclesial life is somewhat vibrant and, despite secularization, some of the most active movements and associations are Catholic, including organisations as diverse as Catholic Action (AC), the Italian Catholic Association of Guides and Scouts (AGESCI), Communion and Liberation (CL), Neocatechumenal Way, the Focolare Movement, the Christian Associations of Italian Workers (ACLI), the Community of Sant’Egidio, etc., most of which have been involved in social activities and have frequently supplied Italian politics with their members.