Least Religious Countries 2021

Re:Least Religious Countries 2021 by leephillips on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:56AM (#27801854)

This oft-cited paper¹ shows that almost all measures of societal health are negatively correlated with religiosity, across the world. Of course that doesn’t prove that faith causes such things as teenage pregnancy, crime, and drug abuse, but it’s provocative.

[1] http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.pdf

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Least Religious Countries 2021 by diego_moita on Sunday July 11, 2021 @12:04PM (#27801944)

You can infer the same from the map provided by the link, right?

The map clearly shows that the most religious regions are precisely the most dysfunctional: Africa, Latin America and Southern Asia.

> doesn’t prove that faith causes such things as teenage pregnancy, crime, and drug abuse, but it’s provocative.

As a Latin American I suspect it is the other way around: a society that doesn't solve problems makes people despaired for any solution, even the ones that don't solve anything, like religion. Whe you can't get a remedy then at least you want a placebo.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Least Religious Countries 2021 by mistermann on Sunday July 11, 2021 @12:47PM (#27802422)

> even the ones that don't solve anything, like religion

Is this a fact supported by peer reviewed science?

[ Parent | on HN ]