[daniel1212]

America may have some place in there, but in if you are into correlations, you’all (is that how you say it) may find this interesting, w/ many factors to consider. http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Statistical_Correlations.html

[Cronos]

True, however, I meant to put the caveat that I was focussing purely on Europe (including European Russia and Turkey). In any case, the focus was on economic development, not political affiliations.

With respect to economic and scientific innovations in the Americans, how much percentage is due to Jews? Or Orthodox? yes, "Protestants" will be a large %, but how many are Anglicans, Baptists-Congregationalists, Lutherans-Reformed (clubbing them together in the US), Catholics? I don't know about the split by various branches of Western Christianity, but I can be sure that the Jewish representation in scientific discovery will be far larger than their population percentages.

[Cronos]

True, however, I meant to put the caveat that I was focussing purely on Europe (including European Russia and Turkey). In any case, the focus was on economic development, not political affiliations.

With respect to economic and scientific innovations in the Americans, how much percentage is due to Jews? Or Orthodox? yes, "Protestants" will be a large %, but how many are Anglicans, Baptists-Congregationalists, Lutherans-Reformed (clubbing them together in the US), Catholics? I don't know about the split by various branches of Western Christianity, but I can be sure that the Jewish representation in scientific discovery will be far larger than their population percentages.

This would signify my point that:

1. Religion played a role in the sense of whether it was a state-religion (most of Europe) or not (America) and whether the religion was flexible for different viewpoints (Anglicanism and maybe Judaism) or not (in Europe Catholicism, Calvinism, Lutheranism etc.)
2. Critical mass of "smart folks" and innovation breeds more scientific and economic discoveries. This is what happened in Sumeria, in Harappa, in Magadha, in ancient Greece, in the medieval Italian city-states, in the S-E of England and N-W of France and in the N-E of the US and Southern California