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Originally Posted by peter12
No, quite the opposite, actually. What I meant is that on a fairly concrete scale, communities with a strong moral and religious centre tend to weather storms better than those without, especially given that Western social safety nets and institutions are decaying.
Religious communities provide charity, but also moral support, and indeed, judgement that help people who are down get back up.
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Black communities have some of the strongest religious affiliations in the US. They attend church on par with religious conservatives.
Also, by the way, black fathers are more likely to be regularly present in their children's lives, according to the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/op...st-of-all.html
There's also the fact that crime in the US has dropped per capita just as the marriage rate has declined.
The "breakdown of traditional family" is a myth. Black communities are plagued with limited resources, poor education, excessive enforcement of archaic drug laws, excessive punishment for minor non-violent crimes, for-profit prisons which reward recidivism, etc.
Again, morality helps communities. Religion may or may not play a role in that.