(August 31, 2011 at 7:26 am)TeslaTrooper Wrote: Hi everyone, first post and not sure which topic area to put this in, or forum etiquette, its not really a question but something for discussion, but here it goes.
Its basically a concept I have been grappling with for a while. For those of us who aren't religious or live in secular societies, it would appear that their is a significant correlation with the decline in morality, and the decline in religion.
Again - a person looking at a situation often makes a conclusion without looking at the facts.
IT is not the secular community that is having the morality problem - it is the religious community. For instance - look at crime rates. UN statistics show that crime is HIGHEST where theism is highest - and crime rates are lowest where most people do not believe in spooks.
In the USA - murder is most likely (AS a percentage of the population) to be committed by Fundamental christians - and LEAST likely to be committed by secularists. THE same is true for abortion, suicide, and divorce as well. For example - the US states with the highest number of fundamental christians - largely the bible belt states - are also the ones with the highest murder rates as well. Hard to believe - but Louisiana - the state with the highest number of fundamental christians has a murder rate of about 11.8 per 100,000 people - which New York's rate is about 4,
Secularists are more likely to be of higher education and higher intelligence that theists are. People of higher education have always been least likely to commit crime. WHen you remove them from the religious population - in large numbers - you are seeing the results from what is left in the religious population.
