Religion, Nations, And Well-Being.

[SirNitram]

What will clearly be a controversial study. It deals with the rate of 'religiousity' in prosperous democracies, as well as various forms of societal problems.

Highlights:

The US' 'Religiousity' is far closer to second or third world nations, all other first world nations are much more secular.

As expected, the more religion, the less acceptance of evolution and other scientific theories. Japan, the least religious country, has the highest acceptance, the US, the least.

Secular nations have their homicide rates drop steadily to historical lows. The US retains a relatively high homicide rate.


Though the spread of HIV has been curtailed in all prosperous democracies, the rate in the US is six to three hundred times higher in the US than secular nations.

In general, higher religiousity correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies.