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John Loftus has a comprehensive new paper on #Atheist morality: his peer-reviewed paper, "An Atheist Morality Without God", has been published at Religions. http://www.debunking-christianity.com/2025/11/my-peer-reviewed-paper-atheist-morality.html
“As has been amply documented by contemporary economists, criminologists, and sociologists, the nations with the lowest murder rates, violent crimes rates, infant mortality rates, child abuse fatality cases, incarceration rates, etc., are the most secular, while those nations with the highest rates of corruption, murder, violent crime, inequality, political repression, and violence, are the most God-worshiping and church-attending.”
“Looking just at the United States alone, the states with “the highest levels of belief in God” such as Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama, “have much higher rates of violent crime, and other social pathologies than those in states with the lowest levels of belief in God” such as Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Oregon (Zuckerman 2019, p. xxiv).”
“Lindsay comments, “In fact, atheists are underrepresented in the prison population. Of course, if there are relatively few atheists in prisons, this implies the overwhelming majority of felons are theists” (Lindsay 2016, p. 139).”
“The correlation is clear and strong: The more secular tend to fare better than the more religious on a vast host of measures, including homicide and violent crime rates, poverty rates, obesity and diabetes rates, child abuse rates, educational attainment levels, income levels, unemployment rates, rates of sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancy, etc.”
