{"id":1409,"date":"2005-09-28T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/2005\/09\/cross-national-correlations-of.html"},"modified":"2005-09-28T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T10:56:00","slug":"cross-national-correlations-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>A first look at the rate of religiosity in a country and its crime rate, those bible thumpers are not going to like this at all.<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8220;the United States is the only prosperous first world nation to retain rates of religiosity otherwise limited to the second and third worlds&#8221; and &#8220;the U.S. is the only prosperous democracy that retains high homicide rates,&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>Also &#8220;A few hundred years ago rates of homicide were astronomical in Christian Europe and the American colonies. In all secular developing democracies a centuries long-term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>And on the sex front &#8220;The two main curable STDs have been nearly eliminated in strongly secular Scandinavia&#8221; wheras in USA &#8220;rates of adolescent gonorrhea infection remain six to three hundred times higher&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>First saw article mentioned here http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-1798944,00.html<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A first look at the rate of religiosity in a country and its crime rate, those bible thumpers are not going to like this at all. &#8220;the United States is the only prosperous first world nation to retain rates of religiosity otherwise limited to the second and third worlds&#8221; and &#8220;the U.S. is the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}