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> Countries with strong secular foundations regularly top global indexes of well-being, prosperity, and social progress. https://worldpopulationreview.com/coun

> Countries with strong secular foundations regularly top global indexes of well-being, prosperity, and social progress. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-countries-in-the-world https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-... Only 1 of the top 5 countries in this list have neither blasphemy laws or a state church. 2 of them have both.

spiderfarmer 2y ago
If your point is that they're doing good because they still pay some ceremonial tribute to their religious past, or that they're doing good because they had a strong religious foundation at some point, how do you square that with the correlation between these countries doing better and the decrease in the influence of religion?