Alert: religion can harm society
RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards
high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according
to research published today.
According to the study, belief in and worship of God are not only
unnecessary for a healthy society but may actually contribute to social
problems.
The study counters the view of believers that religion is necessary to
provide the moral and ethical foundations of a healthy society.
Many liberal Christians and believers of other faiths hold that
religious belief is socially beneficial, believing that it helps to
lower rates of violent crime, murder, suicide, sexual promiscuity and
abortion.
But the study claims that the devotion of many in the US may actually
contribute to its ills.
The paper, published in the Journal of Religion and Society, a US
academic journal, reports: "Many Americans agree that their churchgoing
nation is an exceptional, God-blessed, shining city on the hill that
stands as an impressive example for an increasingly sceptical world.
"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. The US is almost always the most dysfunctional
of the developing democracies, sometimes spectacularly so."
Gregory Paul, the author of the study and a social scientist, used data
from the International Social Survey Programme, Gallup and other
research bodies to reach his conclusions.
The study concluded that the US was the world's only prosperous
democracy where murder rates were still high, and that the least devout
nations were the least dysfunctional.
Mr Paul said that rate of gonorrhoea in US adolescents was up to 300
times higher than in less devout democratic countries. The US also
suffered from "uniquely high" adolescent and adult syphilis infection
rates and adolescent abortion rates, the study suggested. (=A9 The
Times, London)=20
Ruth Gledhill
in London
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: For the religious freaks! |
28 Sep 2005 03:52:19 PM |
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*HIS* "ELECT" *WROTE*:
*SINCE* "YOU" *POSTED* "THIS" *RIDICULOUS* "STUDY" *LETS* "SUM" *IT*
"ALL" *UP* "IN" *ONE* "NUTSHELL" *FOR* "YOU"!!!
*RELIGIONIST* "AS" *SOME* "CALL" *THEM* "WERE" *YOUR* "ANCESTORS" *AND*
"THEY" *WERE* "BRINGING" *FORTH* "THE" *UNDERSTANDINGS* "GOD"
*IMPARTED* "TO" *THEM* "IN" *ORDER* "TO" *HELP* "THE" *PEOPLE*
"CORRECT" *THE* "WRONGS" *BEING* "TAUGHT" *TO* "THEM" *BY* "UNGODLY"
*AND* "COMPLETELY" *DEFILED* "SOULS" *WHO* "WERE" *CRIMINAL* "IN"
*MANY* "REGARDS"!!!
*THE* "LAWS" *OF* "GOD" *WERE* "ESTABLISHED" *WITH* "THE" *ISRAELITES*
"AS" *THEY* "AGREED" *TO* "ADHERE" *TO* "THE" *LAWS* "AND" *BY*
"MAKING" *THIS* "AGREEMENT" *WITH* "GOD" *THRU* "MOSES" *THEY* "WERE"
*INFORMED* "BY" *MOSES* "FROM" *GOD* "THAT" *GOD* "WOULD" *ACCEPT*
"THEM" *AS* "HIS" *PEOPLE* "AND" *THEY* "COULD" *SEEK* "HIS" *HELP*
"IN" *TIMES* "OF" *TROUBLE*!!!
*ALL* "THAT" *WAS* "REQUIRED" *OF* "THE" *ISRAELITES* "WAS" *TO*
"REMAIN" *COMMITTED* "TO" *GOD* "AND" *FOLLOW* "THE" *LAWS* "OF" *GOD*
"AND" *ANY* "NATION" *OR* "PERSON" *THAT* "CAME" *AGAINST* "THEM"
*WOULD* "BE" *ADDRESSED* "BY" *GOD* "AND" *WHAT* "DID" *THEY* "DO"
*THEY* "BROKE" *THEIR* "COVENANT" *OF* "AGREEMENT" *WITH* "GOD" *AND*
"WENT" *CHASING* "AFTER" *THE* "UNGODLY" *WAYS* "OF" *THEIR* "OWN"
*IMAGINATIONS* "AND" *THE* "IMAGINATIONS" *OF* "THEIR" *NEIGHBORS*!!!
*THEREFORE*, "THE" *ONES* "WHO" *HAVE* "TAKEN" *OVER* "HIS" *PEOPLE*
"AS" *BEING* "THEIR" *GOD* "AND" *PROTECTOR* "WILL" *FIND* "OUT" *FROM*
"GOD" *HIMSELF* "THAT" *THEY* "HAVE" *ROBBED* "GOD" *AND* "THEY" *MUST*
"BE" *ACCOUNTABLE* "TO" *HIS* "JUSTICE" *FOR* "INTERFERRING" *WITH*
"HIS" *ESTABLSIHED* "ORDER"!!!
*SO* "YOU" *PEOPLE* "CAN" *SAY* "AND" *DO* "WHAT" *YOU* "WANT" *RIGHT*
"NOW" *AND* "I" *ASSURE* "YOU" *THAT* "WHEN" *GOD* "HAS" *HIS* "SAY"
*ABOUT* "THIS" *SITUATION* "THERE" *WILL* "BE" *UNDERSTANDING* "FOR"
*ALL*!!!
"HAVE" *A* "NICE" *DAY*...
"HIS" *ELECT*
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| User: "WH" |
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| Title: Re: For the religious freaks! |
29 Sep 2005 04:22:53 AM |
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wrote:
*HIS* "ELECT" *WROTE*:
*SINCE* "YOU" *POSTED* "THIS" *RIDICULOUS* "STUDY" *LETS* "SUM" *IT*
"ALL" *UP* "IN" *ONE* "NUTSHELL" *FOR* "YOU"!!!
*RELIGIONIST* "AS" *SOME* "CALL" *THEM* "WERE" *YOUR* "ANCESTORS" *AND*
"THEY" *WERE* "BRINGING" *FORTH* "THE" *UNDERSTANDINGS* "GOD"
*IMPARTED* "TO" *THEM* "IN" *ORDER* "TO" *HELP* "THE" *PEOPLE*
"CORRECT" *THE* "WRONGS" *BEING* "TAUGHT" *TO* "THEM" *BY* "UNGODLY"
*AND* "COMPLETELY" *DEFILED* "SOULS" *WHO* "WERE" *CRIMINAL* "IN"
*MANY* "REGARDS"!!!
*THE* "LAWS" *OF* "GOD" *WERE* "ESTABLISHED" *WITH* "THE" *ISRAELITES*
"AS" *THEY* "AGREED" *TO* "ADHERE" *TO* "THE" *LAWS* "AND" *BY*
"MAKING" *THIS* "AGREEMENT" *WITH* "GOD" *THRU* "MOSES" *THEY* "WERE"
*INFORMED* "BY" *MOSES* "FROM" *GOD* "THAT" *GOD* "WOULD" *ACCEPT*
"THEM" *AS* "HIS" *PEOPLE* "AND" *THEY* "COULD" *SEEK* "HIS" *HELP*
"IN" *TIMES* "OF" *TROUBLE*!!!
*ALL* "THAT" *WAS* "REQUIRED" *OF* "THE" *ISRAELITES* "WAS" *TO*
"REMAIN" *COMMITTED* "TO" *GOD* "AND" *FOLLOW* "THE" *LAWS* "OF" *GOD*
"AND" *ANY* "NATION" *OR* "PERSON" *THAT* "CAME" *AGAINST* "THEM"
*WOULD* "BE" *ADDRESSED* "BY" *GOD* "AND" *WHAT* "DID" *THEY* "DO"
*THEY* "BROKE" *THEIR* "COVENANT" *OF* "AGREEMENT" *WITH* "GOD" *AND*
"WENT" *CHASING* "AFTER" *THE* "UNGODLY" *WAYS* "OF" *THEIR* "OWN"
*IMAGINATIONS* "AND" *THE* "IMAGINATIONS" *OF* "THEIR" *NEIGHBORS*!!!
*THEREFORE*, "THE" *ONES* "WHO" *HAVE* "TAKEN" *OVER* "HIS" *PEOPLE*
"AS" *BEING* "THEIR" *GOD* "AND" *PROTECTOR* "WILL" *FIND* "OUT" *FROM*
"GOD" *HIMSELF* "THAT" *THEY* "HAVE" *ROBBED* "GOD" *AND* "THEY" *MUST*
"BE" *ACCOUNTABLE* "TO" *HIS* "JUSTICE" *FOR* "INTERFERRING" *WITH*
"HIS" *ESTABLSIHED* "ORDER"!!!
*SO* "YOU" *PEOPLE* "CAN" *SAY* "AND" *DO* "WHAT" *YOU* "WANT" *RIGHT*
"NOW" *AND* "I" *ASSURE* "YOU" *THAT* "WHEN" *GOD* "HAS" *HIS* "SAY"
*ABOUT* "THIS" *SITUATION* "THERE" *WILL* "BE" *UNDERSTANDING* "FOR"
*ALL*!!!
"HAVE" *A* "NICE" *DAY*...
"HIS" *ELECT*
Keep out of my threads until you learn to turn off the
asterisks/qoutation marks and push the caps lock tangent *****!
WH
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| User: "Fred Garvin" |
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| Title: Re: For the religious freaks! |
28 Sep 2005 07:08:36 PM |
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On 2005-09-28 16:52:19 -0400, said:
*HIS* "ELECT" *WROTE*:
*SINCE* "YOU" *POSTED* "THIS" *RIDICULOUS* "STUDY" *LETS* "SUM" *IT*
"ALL" *UP* "IN" *ONE* "NUTSHELL" *FOR* "YOU"!!!
*RELIGIONIST* "AS" *SOME* "CALL" *THEM* "WERE" *YOUR* "ANCESTORS" *AND*
"THEY" *WERE* "BRINGING" *FORTH* "THE" *UNDERSTANDINGS* "GOD"
*IMPARTED* "TO" *THEM* "IN" *ORDER* "TO" *HELP* "THE" *PEOPLE*
"CORRECT" *THE* "WRONGS" *BEING* "TAUGHT" *TO* "THEM" *BY* "UNGODLY"
*AND* "COMPLETELY" *DEFILED* "SOULS" *WHO* "WERE" *CRIMINAL* "IN"
*MANY* "REGARDS"!!!
(SNIP!)
Dickheadtionary Definition:
GODERRHEA (noun)
A mental venereal disease characterized by a ***** oozing his/her
religious dogma in endless dribbles on Usenet.
--
PCs, like air-conditioners, are useless when you open Windows.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: For the religious freaks! |
27 Sep 2005 06:14:40 PM |
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The whole premise is a farce. The strong polarization of good and evil
in the USA is the result of true freedom and diversity of belief, not
the presence of some christians. You can not measure the happiness of
individuals by looking at average crime rates etc. The study is
anti-religious propaganda.
WH wrote:
Alert: religion can harm society
RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards
high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according
to research published today.
According to the study, belief in and worship of God are not only
unnecessary for a healthy society but may actually contribute to social
problems.
The study counters the view of believers that religion is necessary to
provide the moral and ethical foundations of a healthy society.
Many liberal Christians and believers of other faiths hold that
religious belief is socially beneficial, believing that it helps to
lower rates of violent crime, murder, suicide, sexual promiscuity and
abortion.
But the study claims that the devotion of many in the US may actually
contribute to its ills.
The paper, published in the Journal of Religion and Society, a US
academic journal, reports: "Many Americans agree that their churchgoing
nation is an exceptional, God-blessed, shining city on the hill that
stands as an impressive example for an increasingly sceptical world.
"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. The US is almost always the most dysfunctional
of the developing democracies, sometimes spectacularly so."
Gregory Paul, the author of the study and a social scientist, used data
from the International Social Survey Programme, Gallup and other
research bodies to reach his conclusions.
The study concluded that the US was the world's only prosperous
democracy where murder rates were still high, and that the least devout
nations were the least dysfunctional.
Mr Paul said that rate of gonorrhoea in US adolescents was up to 300
times higher than in less devout democratic countries. The US also
suffered from "uniquely high" adolescent and adult syphilis infection
rates and adolescent abortion rates, the study suggested. (=A9 The
Times, London)=20
=20
Ruth Gledhill
in London
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