Saturday, December 22, 2012  Atheist countries more peaceful
Epiphenom is a great blog.  This post is is fascinating:
 Atheist countries more peaceful.  It's well established that
education and religiousness are inversely correlated.  The
trick, of course, is figuring out what the cause is.  Does
education cause religiousness to fall off?  And this is my 300th
post!   Westley said...  Merry Christmas Obi Wan! And Happy New
Year!  Ron Cram said...  I have not read the study in depth.
Have you?  My first guess is the study has methodological
errors. For one thing, it completely ignores history.
Historically, governments with government-imposed atheism have
been the most violent. Just look at the USSR under Stalin or
China under Mao or the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Hundreds of
millions of people died under these atheistic governments.
Knowbody said...  There's the key: government-imposed. The USSR
in particular could almost be described as a religion in itself.
• Atheism is not a belief system. It is by defini