Re: Atheists put their faith in ethical behavior

Wakboth wrote:
Nancy Norton kirjoitti:

FiveLongYears wrote:
CreateThis wrote:
[.....]
They believe you can live a happy, respectable life
based on human ethics that were derived not from God handing down a
tablet but from a code of rules that emerged naturally through an
evolutionary process in which humans learned how to live together
successfully.
I wonder if there is a study, to show %'s of crime commited by Atheist,
and religious groups.. Do more christians commit fraud? Do
Islamics commit more murder? How do we atheists rank in there. DON'T
take that to mean that I'm including Atheism as a religion, I'm not.
I'm just curious to see how much a lack of belif in God, contributes to
lawful behaviour.. if at all.. mmmmm

If a lack of belief in God makes us not have morals, then prove it.
Show me numbers..

FLY

There's always this study:

http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html

It shows a correlation between indications of societal health and how
secular that society is. More secular countries have lower rates of
things like homicides, suicides, etc. than more religious countries.

Maybe people living in more unstable societies turn more to religion as
a relief?

-- Wakboth


I'm not sure that any of the countries in the study qualify as
"unstable". The title of the article is "Cross-National Correlations of
Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in
the Prosperous Democracies." The countries that are compared are:
Australia, Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, France, Germany, Holland,
Ireland, Japan, Switzerland, Norway, Portugal, Austria, Spain, Italy,
United States, Sweden, and New Zealand.

Is the United States significantly more unstable than England?

Are the southern and mid-western areas of the US more unstable than the
northeast? A quote from the article: "There is evidence that within the
U.S. strong disparities in religious belief versus acceptance of
evolution are correlated with similarly varying rates of societal
dysfunction, the strongly theistic, anti-evolution south and mid-west
having markedly worse homicide, mortality, STD, youth pregnancy, marital
and related problems than the northeast where societal conditions,
secularization, and acceptance of evolution approach European norms
(Aral and Holmes; Beeghley, Doyle, 2002)."

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