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Belief In Hell Predicts a Country's Crime Rates Better Than Other Factors
An anonymous reader writes "Religion is often thought of as psychological defense against bad behavior, but researchers have recently found that the effect of religion on pro-social behaviors may actually be driven by the belief in hell and supernatural punishment rather than faith in heaven and spiritual benevolence. In a large analysis of 26 years of data consisting of 143,197 people in 67 countries, psychologists found significantly lower crime rates in societies where many people believe in hell compared to those where more people believed in heaven."
Therefore, the only logical choice is to believe in religion as an evolutionary strategy to advance the human race!
Ha! Suck it fundamentalist atheists! You're on the losing side of the evolution fight this time!
what about those of us who long ago realized hell is all there is and we're there now, broadcasting live -- HI MOM!!!
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As an atheist, I didn't used to, but then I spent a few weeks in Arkansas. If that's not hell, I don't know what is...
They were going to include Jedi, but after some hand-waving they "forgot" to.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Where can I get hired to turn our crap like this and never have to produce on solid thing that can be measured against the real world?
Washington, D.C.
People who live in Detroit? All they have to do is open a window and look outside.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8 and depending on the rounding used it can translate to 2 + 2 = 5
Wall Street should have just about no crime, then.
Where can I get hired to turn our crap like this and never have to produce on solid thing that can be measured against the real world?
Trick is, you can dig at the softness of the soft sciences all you want; but it's a knife-fight-in-a-telephone-booth to get a decent tenure track job in them. For every one who gets to bullshit in public, there are probably 20 or more grading freshman philosophy papers for $12,000/year.
How's that for true hell? A brutal, dog-eat-dog competition, with no real world metrics against which to measure yourself? An endless, inter-subjective void, with nothing but brutal struggle for the few jobs that exist, and lots of Derrida. Flee crying back to the hard sciences while you still can, grasshopper...
Wow, way to miss the point and look like a pompous ass.
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