Too much religion hurts society, study says. Press snoozes.
| By xxx - Oct 9th, 2005 at 6:39 pm EDT |
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Religious conservatives say that more religion will heal the problems of the world. Their think tanks have a $400 million annual budget to spew that perspective. Now, there are stats proving they're wrong -- statistics most Americans aren't hearing about.
If the study said that more religion helped the world, we would have heard about it from every Sunday talk show and conservative columnist. But this study gets nothing but a single column in the LA Times.
I want to know what's keeping the liberal media from picking up on this. Maybe it's intelligent design.
The dark side of faith
By ROSA BROOKS, Los Angeles Times, 10/1/2005
Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies: Link
by Gregory S. Paul, Journal of Religion & Society (Vol. 7, 2005)
A new study by evolutionary scientist Gregory S. Paul says that, "… the most religious democracies exhibited substantially higher degrees of social dysfunction than societies with larger percentages of atheists and agnostics."
If the study said that more religion helped the world, we would have heard about it from every Sunday talk show and conservative columnist. But this study gets nothing but a single column in the LA Times.
I want to know what's keeping the liberal media from picking up on this. Maybe it's intelligent design.
The dark side of faith
By ROSA BROOKS, Los Angeles Times, 10/1/2005
Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies: Link
by Gregory S. Paul, Journal of Religion & Society (Vol. 7, 2005)
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