the more secular a US state, the less crime-ridden it is.
At the risk of opening a Pandora’s Box, I’m gonna ask what evidence there is of this.
Yeah even I don’t get that one.
States like Louisiana, which is more religious than other states, has a far greater crime and murder rate than more secular states like Vermont or New Hampshire. I’m using it as an example of how it’s totally false that religion makes a society less criminal.
And the Bear Patrol kept the bears away from Springfield. You could tell because there were no bears in Springfield.
Seriously, how can you possibly claim that religion is the reason that Louisiana has more crime than Vermont?
I’m not. I’m saying that it proves that religious populations don’t deter crime and secular ones don’t invite crime.
The whole reason I brought it up was to debunk the claims of people like Jordan Peterson who claim that religion is a necessity in order to keep society from collapsing. Obviously it isn’t because secular societies are by and large doing fine and often are doing better than the religious ones.