ABSTRACT

Despite some theologians, God is not simple. Should there be a God, He has a great deal of explaining to do about the complexities of the world that he has created, even if he has demonstrated, as Einstein once observed, a considerable understanding of higher mathematics. God is still alive and well, then, in most of the Catholic countries, alive but perhaps not well in the mixed Catholic and Protestant countries, and weak in the Scandinavian and onetime socialist countries. The "theists" are those who say that either they believe that "God really exists" or that while they have doubts, they do really believe in God. Systematic cross-national research with the same questions began in 1981. Thus, given the limitations of this project, measuring change only during the last two decades of this millennium will be done. The losses and gains, however, vary greatly among the countries.