{"id":688,"date":"2007-03-26T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2007-03-26T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T16:27:00","slug":"those-brits-do-pick-on-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"Those Brits do pick on religion&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/eo20070322gd.html\">Does Religion Do More Harm Than Good?<\/a>, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/galbinus_caeli.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">galbinus_caeli<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A quote of a quote of the original study, regarding religious belief in developed, democratic countries&#8230;<br \/>\n<i>&#8220;In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, (venereal disease), teen pregnancy, and abortion,&#8221; while &#8220;none of the strongly secularized, pro-evolution democracies is experiencing high levels of measurable dysfunction.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>First off, I hate that they dropped &#8220;pro-evolution&#8221; in there.  Religion and Evolution are not opposites.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, is this an increase-in-preachers-causes-increase-in-criminals sort of false correlation?  (or, if you prefer, decrease-in-pirates-causes-increase-in-global-warming)  Perhaps is there selective data being reviewed?  Dunno.<\/p>\n<p>As the author of the article mentions, all of these issues are more likely to happen with the economically disadvantaged and countries with stronger belief in a higher power tend to have fewer social programs (at least, fewer governmental social programs).<\/p>\n<p>My instinct is to resist the blow to religion.  In a country where there are few social programs and a harsher form of poverty, I would hypothesize a tendency to look towards satisfaction in the afterlife when satisfaction in present life seems unattainable.  Thus, poverty and its accompanying ills beget religion, rather than the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>And Britain is &#8220;post-Christian&#8221;?  Who knew?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Religion Do More Harm Than Good?, courtesy of galbinus_caeli. A quote of a quote of the original study, regarding religious belief in developed, democratic countries&#8230; &#8220;In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=688\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}