Sometimes people will look at Kim and me, and think we are crazy for being in a atheist relationship, raising a second generation atheist. A popular argument amongst religious supporters is that society and families benefit from religion, historically the United States has a very large proportion on Christians (76%) for their population respectively, but does religion really make society better or does it inhibit its growth? I spent a good portion of this morning researching western societies in Europe and the US, and for the problems in society that I researched; I used the most commonly cited issues by Christians;
Hard Drug Abuse
Teen Pregnancy
Divorce
Prison Population
I also devised a ranking system using points, the more the problem showed up, the more points a country received, the most a country could receive was 10, the lower the society rating, the fewer problems they have. The results from my research do show that statistically, the less Christian a country becomes the fewer problems that country will have. I do have sources for all my statistics; please feel free to email me for a copy of the sources and the complete report. I apologize for such a short post about this. I just wanted to get this out and soon as I could.
*Note; This is not all the data, please email me for a copy of the full report I compiled.*
| United States | Netherlands | Norway | Greece | Avg | |
| Percent Christian | 76.00% | 34.00% | 32.00% | 81.00% | 48.00% |
| Percent Atheist | 15.00% | 27.00% | 17.00% | 3.00% | 18.50% |
| Drug Abuse | 8.90% | 0.50% | 0.30% | 8.60% | 2.21% |
| Teen Pregnancy | 5.56% | 0.77% | 1.36% | 1.22% | 1.65% |
| Divorce Rate (% of Marriages) | 45.80% | 38.30% | 40.40% | 15.70% | 37.66% |
| Jailed Population | 0.74% | 0.10% | 0.07% | 0.11% | 0.16% |
| Education Ranking | 17th | 10th | 12th | 32nd | |
| Society Rating (Out Of 50) | 42 | 17 | 19 | 35 | 26.9 |
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