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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.

the reason is laziness, not religion. Although it is scary to think that beleif in an afterlife may excuse you for doing what you should do in this one, hardly anyone thinks this way and it'd be foolish to blame religion for the current state of affairs...Blame yourself and get to work