Religion causes abortion, teen pregnancy, and homicide!

[Spiffor]

Actually, I find a few of these charts pretty clear-cut.
If you remove the US, quite a few of these charts still show an actual correlation. Even though the US is the worst charicature, Portugal and Austria occasionally show significant social problems, more than less religious countries.

[Bereta_Eder]

A propos Why is the problem of drugs in Portugal so accute?

[Jon Miller]

if you look at the number of countries.. one or two points does not a correlation make

and the other religious nations (like Portugal) are significantly worse off then the other nations like England or Japan.. suggesting other factors

also, many of the charts (without the US on them), like the homicide one, show homicides rising, then falling, with religiousity

Jon Miller

[Sava]

denial ain't just a river in egypt

[Jon Miller]

btw, I will give the abortion one.. for those nations

JM
(include China.. and everything changes)

[Bereta_Eder]

I dont know if portugal is particularly religious. it does have big unemployment though especially in the young

[Jon Miller]

it is also weird that South Korea.. and some other countries, aren't included

JM

[MrFun]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Religion causes abortion, teen pregnancy, and homicide!

Originally posted by Last Conformist

Yes, and one can also claim the moon is made of cheese.

What the study shows is correlation between religious belief and society dysfunction. While this is deeply problematic for those who hold that atheism leads to such dysfunction, it does not establish that religion is necessarily the cause of it either*, or that those you endearingly calle "right-wing religious nuts" are more relevant than other religious people.

* Maybe both American religiosity and American societal dysfunction are results of something the Evul Librul Konspiracy is putting in the water.

I think societal dysfunction is much more complex than supposing that one or two segments of a population is THE EVIL cause of all such dysfunction. It's a mess of ignorant and/or hateful conservatives, liberals, religious faithful, atheists, straights, gays, blacks, whites, and on and on who all contribute to ****ing up our blessed country.

[Bereta_Eder]

bastards