Eglaecia wrote:Celritannia wrote:
When you have better education, access to science, medicine, and welfare, you stop believing in things that don;t exist because it is humanity that helps other humans, not the supernatural.
So better education means better reasoning, which leads to questioning things, and then removing religion as a necessity.
The most religious countries tend to be the poorest and use religion as a psychological escape and coping mechanism.
I provided evidence of this to you in the Christian thread and you refused to accept it, so to save both of us some time, don;t respond as you prefer to deny the evidence.'
No you didn't, stop lying. You drew a conclusion that the authors of the evidence you provided didn't make and then proceeded to parrot "its a fact get over it". You're a liar.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/142727/rel ... tions.aspx
One theory is that religion plays a more functional role in the world's poorest countries, helping many residents cope with a daily struggle to provide for themselves and their families. A previous Gallup analysis supports this idea, revealing that the relationship between religiosity and emotional well-being is stronger among poor countries than among those in the developed world.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/do-countr ... -1.1310451
Gregory Paul doesn't think it can. After constructing a "Successful Societies Scale" that compared 25 socioeconomic indicators against statistics on religious belief and practice in 17 developed nations, the Baltimore-based paleontologist concluded in a 2009 study that "religion is most able to thrive in seriously dysfunctional societies."
Paul, who is a freelance researcher not affiliated with any institution, compiled data on everything from homicide rates and income inequality to infant mortality and teenage pregnancies and found that the societies that scored the best on socioeconomic indicators were also the most secular.