Celritannia wrote:Lower Nubia wrote:
You're putting the cart before the horse. Education -> making atheists already assumes a good education system. Highlighting an already prosperous state. They're not rich or educated because of atheism.
In addition, medicine & education are not Atheistical inventions.
Further, I would suggest not education, but the freedom to pursue self is the factor for more atheists. Most education on religion & atheism is utterly poor.
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1944 1%
1947 3%
1953 1%
1954 1%
1965 2%
1967 1%
2011 7%
2013 11%
2014 11%
2016 10%
The proportion of US population that was atheist. The US was definitely developed in the 1940s, Atheism didn't lead to prosperity, it was a consequence of that freedom of self.
Yet it is the better access to technology, education, and medicine that leads to a decline in religion due to people no longer praying for bountiful harvests or for their loved ones to get better, as seen in poorer countries.
And as I stated previously, the US is a special case.
But when you go by state, the least religious the state, the more freedoms they have for more people, especially LGBT communities, and getting access to birth control.
Not really no. California is one of the least religious states and they're well known for being a bureaucratic hellhole of restrictive governance.
LGBT communities in their entirety make up only 4.5 percent of the US population. While protecting them from discrimination is obviously necessary, that's hardly the key factor in public happiness.