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Originally Posted by Cheese
In the other link on Conservative donations I posted this link with this blurb...
..independent scholar Gregory S. Paul found an inverse correlation between religiosity (measured by belief in God, biblical literalism, and frequency of prayer and service attendance) and societal health (measured by rates of homicide, childhood mortality, life expectancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and teen abortions and pregnancies) in 18 developed democracies. "In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD [sexually transmitted disease] infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies..
So I assume the religious are doing a good enough job corrupting their own children?
Now please dont suggest Im anything akin to a homicidal maniac, because as an Atheist I see nothing positive from a Christian perspective...that is simply just another case of fear mongering that sits so well in the laps of the holy.
Again...I dont give a hoot if you believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster...go ahead and kill yourself sucking on those long strands of pasta...simply leave the kids out of it until they are wise enough to make their own decision without bias.
Oh and one other thing...I dont blame religions for all of the worlds problems...but hey they cause enough issues that to simply turn my back and have a blind eye just doesnt cut it.
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I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with that study because it doesn't appear that there are enough variables taken into consideration. Let's look at bullying. I bet you that Christian kids getbullied more by the athiest kids who don't have to worry about consequences in the afterlife. I know I was bullied a lot by kids that didn't go to church. Made me want to try and fit in more which led me to drugs and sex. Do I blame the religion for that? Well it's not really the religion's fault that I was teased, nor was it the religion's fault that as I child I didn't understand what I was getting into with the sex or the drugs. Is that taken into consideration in the study?
I never said you were a homicidal maniac, I said you blame religion the way the Nazi's did. Let's deflect attention from the fact that we're
all screwing up our children and point out that fundies do it better. That's what the Germans did. The deflected. They wanted to blame someone else so they found a scapegoat and started blaming.
Frankly, the religion you raise your child within is only one of a multitude of contributing factors into why our kids are screwed up. It matters what's happening in school. It matters that this has become a materialistic world and if you don't "fit in" in school, you're going to do whatever you can to try.