OMFG! Religious beliefs not inannate? lol

[Procrustes Stretched]

just one more nail in THE coffin.

Sharon Begley(Un)wired For God
Religious beliefs may not be innate.

Published Aug 13, 2009

...the number of American non-believers has doubled since 1990, a 2008 Pew survey found, and increased even more in some other advanced democracies. What's curious is not so much the overall decline of belief (which has caused the Vatican to lament the de-Christianization of Europe) as the pattern. In a paper last month in the online journal Evolutionary Psychology, Gregory Paul finds that countries with the lowest rates of social dysfunction—based on 25 measures, including rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, unemployment, and poverty—have become the most secular. Those with the most dysfunction, such as Portugal and the U.S., are the most religious, as measured by self-professed belief, church attendance, habits of prayer, and the like.

 

[amrchaos]

just one more nail in THE coffin.

Sharon Begley(Un)wired For God
Religious beliefs may not be innate.

Published Aug 13, 2009

...the number of American non-believers has doubled since 1990, a 2008 Pew survey found, and increased even more in some other advanced democracies. What's curious is not so much the overall decline of belief (which has caused the Vatican to lament the de-Christianization of Europe) as the pattern. In a paper last month in the online journal Evolutionary Psychology, Gregory Paul finds that countries with the lowest rates of social dysfunction—based on 25 measures, including rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, unemployment, and poverty—have become the most secular. Those with the most dysfunction, such as Portugal and the U.S., are the most religious, as measured by self-professed belief, church attendance, habits of prayer, and the like.

That is easy to explain--in religious countries, pray to God and all crime can be forgiven.

In secualr countries, praying to God does not relieve you from punishment on Earth-as it should be!!

 

[Truthmatters]

hmmmm

 

[eagleseven]

This seems to support the proposition that God is a psychological crutch.


But hey, I'm not about to steal an injured man's crutches.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

This seems to support the proposition that God is a psychological crutch.


But hey, I'm not about to steal an injured man's crutches.

Why not? Then you can them a scooter.