Isn't it interesting that atheists have better morals than theists?

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According to the statistics, countries with the highest levels of organic atheism are the ones with the best education, health care, and violent crime rates such as murder and rape. There's also less discrimination and better life satisfaction ratings. Isn't it interesting that atheists have better rates when it comes to these mostly moral related topics than theists that claim to have a god or gods guiding them?


Atheism: Contemporary Rates and Patterns1
Phil Zuckerman
From the Cambridge Companion to Atheism,
edited by Michael Martin, University of Cambridge Press, 2007
 
Well yes, atheists are more tolerant of homosexuals, just one example of better morality.
 
I've always found that fascinating, but certainly not surprising.
 
Interesting, but not surprising....it's far easier for people to be immoral if they can put the responsibility for it all on the shoulders of some divine being.
 
I'm guessing that Christianity has a large number of converts in it who were suffering numerous moral problems, and reached out to God for help. I imagine the largest amount of people who reach out to God do it out of need, not because they are just filled with love for no specific reason. So yes, I would say we Christians probably have a high number of undesirables, because we are needier.
 
If you consider murdering your unborn baby and calling it choice and anal sex between two men good morals, then yes it's interesting.
 
more irony, sex-ed that preaches abstinence leads to higher rates of unplanned pregnancy, who didn't see that one coming?
Since we don't pull our morals from a book that in some parts says it's ok to murder and rape people, we have a head start.
 
And these so called Statistics were complied by, let me guess, an atheist?
 
Now I'm an atheist, but what the hell is "organic atheism"?

Edit: Kathleen - Actually, the CIA World Factbook agrees. Check the statistics yourself if you want.
 
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