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The more "Christian" a place is, the greater the social ills and
crime of the area.
That's the primary conclusion of an exhaustive
scientific study done by Gregory S. Paul and published
in the scholarly onling journal, Journal of Religion and
Science of the Creighton university of Omaha, Nebraska, a
Jesuit school.
The study showed that the most "Christian' parts of the United States, the South and Midwest, have the highest rates of social ills and crime including murder, sexually transmitted diseases, mortality and so forth. The study also showed that the United States as a whole has far higher rates of crime and social ills than the rest of the developed world including all of Europe. The US is much more "Christian" than civilized nations. There is no escaping the reality that Christian dogma goes hand-in-glove with a sick society. Religious fanatics and extremist are worse social dangers than drugs. Most rational persons recognize that Christian mythology is farcicaly pathetic and that the Christians, especially the "evangelicals" or fundamentalists, are hypocrites who use religion as a weapon to demean others. Doctor Paul's study is one of the first to quantify the real social effects of Christian doctrine. It may be that religious zealots of all cults, not just Christian, produce a similar effect of social evil. Certainly the Catholic church spent centuries oppressing its subjects into poverty and misery. The Moslem dogma has the same appeal: violence, revenge, exclusion and oppression. One is constrained to wonder why sane persons would invent such mythologies. Religion should not go hand-in-hand with cruelty the way it does in America.
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