This came out back when I was in the desert. I assumed someone here would have gotten a hold of it and showed it to the board but I guess it fell through the cracks.
Journal of Religion and Society wrote:
Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies
In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies
Thanks to Sans Deity as it was his TV show that brought it my way. Actually it could have been the Non Prophets but either way the same way. You guys enjoy.
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The most basic assumption about the world is that it does not contradict itself.
I put it in the "Useful URLs" thread up at the top. That's some good shit. Don't worry, I gave credit to you. Sheesh.
"If one needed proof that a guitar was more than wood and string, that a song was more than notes and words, and that a man could be more than a name and a few faded pictures, then Robert Johnson’s recordings were all one could ask for."
Great study. I was sort of hoping it would be examining these rates within the United States. If it could be shown that American atheists kill/abort/commit suicide/get STDs less often than American Christians, that would be even better argument fodder.
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things... their number is negligible and they are stupid. --Dwight D. Eisenhower
That ought to make a few hardliners veins' pop. I'm wondering, though, if (although I think religion is a factor), much of the shittiness of the Creator Countries comes from their other stupidities.
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.” -Jean-Luc Picard
"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." -Margaret Atwood
Guardsman Bass wrote:That ought to make a few hardliners veins' pop. I'm wondering, though, if (although I think religion is a factor), much of the shittiness of the Creator Countries comes from their other stupidities.
Well it's worth noting that the study isn't necessarily pointing to religion causing the problems. That may indeed be the case but the real damning part is the total and complete failure of religion to counteract societies ills despite it being touted as the answer to anything and everything.
The most basic assumption about the world is that it does not contradict itself.
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Japan, Scandinavia, and France are the most secular nations in the west
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Wtf? When writing a research paper, you really ought to do your research...
On the other hand, yay for us =)
If at first you don't succeed, maybe failure is your style
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Thus Aristotle laid it down that a heavy object falls faster then a light one does.
The important thing about this idea is not that he was wrong, but that it never occurred to Aristotle to check it.
