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Quote by: sdbest This paper "Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies" concludes that "The U.S. is ... the least efficient western nation in terms of converting wealth into cultural and physical health. Understanding the reasons for this failure is urgent, and doing so requires considering the degree to which cause versus effect is responsible for the observed correlations between social conditions and religiosity versus secularism." In other words, religion appears to hurt societies. Could this be true? I think so.

In other words gross overstatement of personal opinion instead of fact?

Only Bhutan measures gross national happiness as something to be recorded and improved. In Norway with a small population and a socialist medical system there average health is probably superior. Here in the US we have an overweight nation and a healthcare system not everyone can afford.

So yah I'm not surprised people in Norway are "better off" in some ways but I think its ridiculous to say its because their atheists.