Admitting You're a Sinner

[Magilla]

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Religious people give more money to charities.
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Religious people volunteer more time.
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We know the religious are also far more likely to volunteer.
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Seems like a person's worldview does impact his/her actions. Hmm. 

OK. But a graph shows nothing about motivations - why people are giving.
The reasons could be ones which the atheist/secularist would abhor. That's
not to say that giving is not a good thing.

On the other hand, giving has no bearing on the question: "Does a god exist?"
This question, is what I care about the most. Furthermore religions have historically
held power, that in many enlightened countries is now much less and weaker than
in centuries gone by. Religious groups have had a lot more time to become
organised - entrenched. It is no wonder that their influence was, and still is
significant.

Maybe given more time, the influence of religions will be further diminished, and
secular organisations can take up the slack, (and maybe not). Still, the behaviour
of the religious does nothing to support the "God" proposition, although the religious
will no doubt tell us otherwise.

Finally, if there is no god, then there is no sin, (if it is defined a contravening
"God's" will and commands). Of course a purely natural, physical universe explains
what the religious might call "sin", but in other ways than theological ones.