RE: In UK atheists considred more moral than theists.
August 21, 2018 at 6:03 pm
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2018 at 6:13 pm by Simon Moon.)
(August 21, 2018 at 5:52 pm)Khemikal Wrote: The faithful constantly remind me that they're not on the same moral page. Makes it seem like a silly question.
Yeah.
The thing is, if you look at all the countries in the world with: the lowest crime rates, best health care, lowest infant mortality, lowest poverty rates, highest percentage of upward mobility, highest education rates, most freedoms, etc, they almost all correlate to the countries with the highest percentage of atheist populations.
Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, and to a slightly lesser extent, Japan, France all have majority atheist populations.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
