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"When you look at crime rates, divorce statistics, and so on, atheists seem to behave more morally than evangelical Christians." Do you have data source for th
by usaphp 10y ago
"When you look at crime rates, divorce statistics, and so on, atheists seem to behave more morally than evangelical Christians."
Do you have data source for this?
- philh 10y agoISTR looking into the divorce statistics once, and mostly finding articles that (through malice or stupidity) compared divorce rates per capita, instead of per marriage. Evangelicals had a higher divorce rate than atheists, but married evangelicals had a lower rate. Don't put too much weight on this.
- btilly 10y agoFirst thing I found in Google is http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/382901/little-religion-terrible-marriage-heres-why-david-french http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/382901/little-religion-.... If you identify evangelical Christians by self-identification, my statement is clearly true. Digging into the difference between self-identification and religious practice is not something that I saw before, and is a fascinating data point.
- philh 10y agoLike I warned about in my sibling comment, the map is comparing divorce rates per capita, not per marriage. It does not say what you claim. (Also, eyeballing it I couldn't even tell you whether the south has an unusually high divorce rate per capita. It's an awful presentation of the wrong data.) The bar chart is comparing divorce rates per marriage, and does not find that religious affiliation affects divorce rate; but churchgoing does, at least in some religious groups.