Posted on 02/16/2009 2:08:49 AM PST by Seth_Stuck
Gallop recently released polling research which suggests the median proportion of residents worldwide who said religion is important in their daily lives is 82%. Not surprisingly, America's average was 65%, well below the worldwide average. (...)
Profitability can expand irrespective of religiosity, but measurable social corruption expands in direct correlation to religious recession. While America may be the wealthiest nation on the planet by virtue of its free market capitalism, its social problems are the direct results of a belief system which increasingly values material possessions above moral responsibility.
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