Godless Is Good

Journal of Religion and Society, a US academic journal, has published a study claiming that religious devotion in the US may actually contribute to its social ills. The author compared the rates of murder, abortion, suicide and teenage pregnancy in the US versus more secular western 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.

“The United States is almost always the most dysfunctional of the developing democracies, sometimes spectacularly so.”

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