Christianity has NOTHING to do with whether or not a society is civilized. Your secular yuppie is much more of a contributor and less of a leach than the overwhelmingly Christian ghetto dwellers. If you look at sectors of the population that are overwhelmingly religious versus those that are secular, and then see which ones are committing most of our violent crime, you would come to a different conclusion than that you have currently.
Education and IQ are better indicators of the chance of one becoming a violent sociopath than belief in Jesus, Allah, or any of the other sky-gods.
Wish I could site the source of this debate...
a Christian apologetic asks an atheist...
if your car breaks down in the middle of southcentral LA at 10pm, would you prefer the first people you see are a group of young men coming from a Bible study, or some other group of young men, which would you chose...
the atheist admitted that the first choice was better...
what’s your choice?
What, no word from the high IQ atheist to those of us who by virtue of being believers must be stupid?
I never doubt the intelligence of a non-believer...
anyone who is earnestly seeking and hungry for Truth will find it in the one whose name is Truth.
you can't call people who swing machetes and maim and kill particularly spiritual...
“Jamaica is overwhelmingly Christian ...”
You really believe that syncretistic half-voodoo half-Catholic pagan nonsense is “Christianity?” I guess just anything can be called Christian, eh?
Hank
Agree with you up to here:
Education and IQ are better indicators of the chance of one becoming a violent sociopath than belief in Jesus, Allah, or any of the other sky-gods.
Education and IQ are usually a non-issue when it comes to fanatical belief in islam. Bright or stupid and educated or not, islam can make violent suicide bombers.