[ShadowDancer]

but one can trot out all sorts of statistics that would support that believers do behave better in society in general.

Will all due respect, that's crap. That may have been the case 200 years ago, it is not so now.

[highlander_UW]

Will all due respect, that's crap. That may have been the case 200 years ago, it is not so now.

With all due respect, you're simply wrong. For example, just recently there was some study that indicated that people of faith gave much more to charity. That is not from 200 years ago.