Most painfully ironic statistics ever [figures on either link above]:
In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies (Figures 5 and 6).
Keep in mind, as Skeptic's report says, this only proves correlation, not causation, however with such high correlations, the report seems entirely applicable in the real world. Also, I honestly would not have guessed we had higher abortion rates. I would have thought those would be pretty evenly distributed across international lines.
My favorite rather pertinent clips:
- Bill Maher on abstinence
- Penn and Teller on the same
- Jon Stewart defends the Party of Death (The guy he's interviewing exactly fits the bill of a twerp.)
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