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Posted by: twinertia
Date: May 01, 2008 03:04PM
The numbers have been rolling in, and the social sciences favor a nontheistic approach to living one's life.
In virtually every category (from adult literacy, per-capita income, life expectancy, matriculation, infant mortality, poverty, homicide, gender equality, spread of infectious disease, etc.), nations with robust levels of skepticism are cleaner, better-educated, more humane, safer, and healthier than countries with higher rates of theism. All recorded by the 2004 CIA World Factbook, the World Health Organization, Fajnzylber's study in 2002's Journal Of Law And Economics, and the United Nations' 2004 Human Development Report.
A real kick to the head for whiny theists who swear up and down that turning from deity leads to unseemly decay.
In virtually every category (from adult literacy, per-capita income, life expectancy, matriculation, infant mortality, poverty, homicide, gender equality, spread of infectious disease, etc.), nations with robust levels of skepticism are cleaner, better-educated, more humane, safer, and healthier than countries with higher rates of theism. All recorded by the 2004 CIA World Factbook, the World Health Organization, Fajnzylber's study in 2002's Journal Of Law And Economics, and the United Nations' 2004 Human Development Report.
A real kick to the head for whiny theists who swear up and down that turning from deity leads to unseemly decay.
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