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I mean, seriously, it's a fucking religion. They find the justification they need for the violence they want to commit.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Feb 21st, 2011 at 10:50:48 AM EST
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hmm.  Level of violence varies with religion even within a country like the USA, so I tend to disagree.  
by stevesim on Mon Feb 21st, 2011 at 10:57:53 AM EST
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In the US, the relationship is the other way around: More religious areas have elevated levels of violent crime, substance abuse and a couple of other things generally considered dysfunctional. But religion (at least as it is measured in these surveys) correlates with poverty and poor education, which are known risk factors for all these things. I am not aware of any body of studies that has stripped out those confounders, nor established which way(s) the cause-and-effect relationship runs between an excess of piety and a lack of wealth and education.

- Jake

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Feb 22nd, 2011 at 05:59:22 AM EST
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