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I suspect that excessive influence of religion led to all those other problems.

• tomjakubowski 14y ago
  Excessive influence of religion leads to poverty, poor health, and a high child mortality rate? Do you have any sources to back this besides a general feeling that religion is "bad"?
  • d0mine 14y ago
    TED Talk Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset: Religion has very little to do with the number of babies per woman. All the religions in the world are fully [able] to maintain their values and adapt to this new world. </quote> http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/hans_rosling_at_state.html http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/hans_rosling_at_state.html
    • genwin 14y ago
      Yes religions can adapt, but of course they don't want to and needn't, so Rosling's reasoning isn't convincing. Utah has the highest birth rate in the US. I doubt that has very little to do with Mormonism.
      • flyinRyan 14y ago
        Have you been to Utah? There isn't much else to do there...
  • genwin 14y ago
    It's not based on a general feeling. It's based on the fact that resources are limited. Any religion that successfully promotes "be fruitful and multiply" will certainly bump against that limit eventually. I can only suspect in any particular case because something else besides religion could be the main contributor to the bad things.