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a lot of first world countries are now unreligious and they are very prosperous and have less corruption http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005 quot Results 13 Among the developed democracies absolute belief in God attendance of religious services and Bible literalism vary over a dozenfold atheists and agnostics five fold prayer rates fourfold and acceptance of evolution almost twofold Japan Scandinavia and France are

exist then everything is permissible Even so in Europe the issue has not been a driving focus of public and political dispute especially since the world wars Full paper here http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005 Be sure to examine the graphs

homicide mortality STD youth pregnancy marital and related problems than the northeast where societal conditions secularization and acceptance of evolution approach European norms Aral and Holmes Beeghley Doyle 2002 quot http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005 I would actually like to imply CAUSALITY between the religiousity of this country amp the poor conditions but I m not as ignorant to actually do that unlike blaming

No takers here? I would have thought you would have jumped on this Hawk lol. Ok so lets look at the US and Christianity. We have the model and the effect, how do we arrive at the cause- Religion reduces crime? Can we find this answer by

fact the data shows the opposite Secular societies in the developed world have much greater quality of life Here is some interesting reading for you with links to many studies http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005 quot 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

0 399 Scientology 190 0 254 Atheist 156 0 209 Hindu 119 0 159 Santeria 117 0 157 Sikh 14 0 019 Bahai 9 0 012 Krishna 7 0 009 http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005 Read the stats for yourself

S Paul 2005 Cross National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies A First Look The Journal of Religion and Society Volume 7 http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005 7 ibid 8 Figures from the UNFPA s State of World Population report 2003 for births per 1000 women between 15 and 19 years old are presented in graph

John Birch Society Really Well I want you to read something can you do that It s a short article from the Journal of Religion and Society The URL is http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005 Here is a small excerpt In general higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide juvenile and early adult mortality STD

other words if you live in America v2 0 gawd help you because nobody else will As to the alleged social benefits of religion a 2005 study published in the Journal of Religion and Society concludes that a high level of religiosity doesn t correlate with a healthy society It is commonly held that religion makes people more just compassionate and moral but a

s something agreeing with you although it is done on a broader scale countries with less religious populations see less crime Correllation causation of course but it s worth noting http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005 On the other hand most of the greatest mass murderers in history were atheists Cite A high degree of religious practice seems to correlate with many or most positive