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I believe God speaks to people through their conscience and their thoughts. Some only believe God speaks to mankind through the Bible. What about you?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 5020968" data-attributes="member: 4805"><p><em>First off, many highly secular societies in the world today with the lowest rates of belief in God—such as Sweden, Japan, and the Netherlands—are among the safest, most well-functioning, and most humane societies on earth, with the lowest murder rates, violent crime rates, infant mortality rates, child abuse fatality rates, incarceration rates, etc. Conversely, those nations with the highest rates of corruption, murder, inequality, political <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/repression" target="_blank">repression</a>, and <a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1101-zuckerman-violence-secularism-20151101-story.html" target="_blank">violence</a>—such as Colombia, El Salvador, and Jamaica—are among the most religious. Granted, this is merely a correlation, but it is a <a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-09/op-ed-guns-and-god-disproving-the-huckabee-hypothesis" target="_blank">powerful correlation</a> that may knock out the knees of the claim that “only God” can provide morals and values for civilization.</em></p><p><em>Secondly, within the U.S., those <a href="https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/" target="_blank">states</a> with the highest levels of belief in God—like Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama—have much higher rates of violent crime and other "social pathologies" than those states with the lowest levels of belief in God—such as Vermont, Massachusetts, and Oregon. If popular belief in God kept people moral and widespread atheism led to immorality, then we would expect to see an opposite correlation; we would find that those states (and nations) wherein God-belief is strong would have the lowest levels of violent crime, while those states (and nations) wherein God-belief is weak would have the highest. But we typically find just the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm" target="_blank">opposite</a>.</em></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-secular-life/202008/atheism-morality-and-society[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jones, post: 5020968, member: 4805"] [I]First off, many highly secular societies in the world today with the lowest rates of belief in God—such as Sweden, Japan, and the Netherlands—are among the safest, most well-functioning, and most humane societies on earth, with the lowest murder rates, violent crime rates, infant mortality rates, child abuse fatality rates, incarceration rates, etc. Conversely, those nations with the highest rates of corruption, murder, inequality, political [URL='https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/repression']repression[/URL], and [URL='https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-1101-zuckerman-violence-secularism-20151101-story.html']violence[/URL]—such as Colombia, El Salvador, and Jamaica—are among the most religious. Granted, this is merely a correlation, but it is a [URL='https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-09/op-ed-guns-and-god-disproving-the-huckabee-hypothesis']powerful correlation[/URL] that may knock out the knees of the claim that “only God” can provide morals and values for civilization. Secondly, within the U.S., those [URL='https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/']states[/URL] with the highest levels of belief in God—like Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama—have much higher rates of violent crime and other "social pathologies" than those states with the lowest levels of belief in God—such as Vermont, Massachusetts, and Oregon. If popular belief in God kept people moral and widespread atheism led to immorality, then we would expect to see an opposite correlation; we would find that those states (and nations) wherein God-belief is strong would have the lowest levels of violent crime, while those states (and nations) wherein God-belief is weak would have the highest. But we typically find just the [URL='https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm']opposite[/URL].[/I] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-secular-life/202008/atheism-morality-and-society[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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