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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Guess it depends how you define religion. Most of the Chinese are Taoists (like me!). Is that considered a religion like Buddhism or more Confucius teaching so therefore not a religion? So if a bazillion Taoists are atheists (like me!) and yeah, China leads the way!
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There is religious and non-religious Taoism/Daoism. So you can't say all Daoists are atheists, and I don't think you can even label the non-religious Daoists atheists either as they aren't mutually exclusive. And I believe most Chinese would traditionally be labelled under General Chinese Religion which would be a mixture of Daoism, Mahayana Buddhism, & Ancestor Worship with a background of Confucian teachings.
It's hard to say what the religiousness of Mainland China is. I spent a year there and it's not a big part of their lives in the people I've met (communism) but there are historical temples, and there are monks and daoist priests. When people visit the temples they do pray, or give respect, etc. While on the flipside Taiwan seemed much more religious (tons of temples everywhere) nearly all temples are Daoist & Buddhist mixtures with Daoism playing a larger role it seemed in most, interestingly enough nearly all the aboriginals are Catholic.