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Interesting thesis. The history of religion supports it in the way divine functions have changed as human civilizations have -- new needs, new divine roles; old needs gone, old roles go too.
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In a follow up to his 2005 paper, Gregory Paul argues that high religiosity is not universal to human populations, and it
is actually inversely related to a wide range of socio-economic indicators representing the health of modern democracies.
Paul holds that once a nation's population becomes prosperous and secure, for example through economic security and universal
health care, much of the population looses interest in seeking the aid and protection of supernatural entities. This effect
appears to be so consistent that it may prevent nations from being highly religious while enjoying good internal socioeconomic
conditions.
National level statistics suggest that strong mass religiosity is invariably associated with high levels of stress and anxiety,
which are created by impoverishment, inequality, or economic security, related to high levels of societal dysfunction. These
relationships are largely consistent when the United States, an outlier amongst advanced democracies in the high level of
both religious belief and social decay, is removed from the comparison.
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Clay Burell
Interesting thesis. The history of religion supports it in the way divine functions have changed as human civilizations have -- new needs, new divine roles; old needs gone, old roles go too.
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In a follow up to his 2005 paper, Gregory Paul argues that high religiosity is not universal to human populations, and it
is actually inversely related to a wide range of socio-economic indicators representing the health of modern democracies.
Paul holds that once a nation's population becomes prosperous and secure, for example through economic security and universal
health care, much of the population looses interest in seeking the aid and protection of supernatural entities. This effect
appears to be so consistent that it may prevent nations from being highly religious while enjoying good internal socioeconomic
conditions.
National level statistics suggest that strong mass religiosity is invariably associated with high levels of stress and anxiety,
which are created by impoverishment, inequality, or economic security, related to high levels of societal dysfunction. These
relationships are largely consistent when the United States, an outlier amongst advanced democracies in the high level of
both religious belief and social decay, is removed from the comparison.
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In a follow up to his 2005 paper, Gregory Paul argues that high religiosity is not universal to human populations, and it
is actually inversely related to a wide range of socio-economic indicators representing the health of modern democracies.
Paul holds that once a nation's population becomes prosperous and secure, for example through economic security and universal
health care, much of the population looses interest in seeking the aid and protection of supernatural entities. This effect
appears to be so consistent that it may prevent nations from being highly religious while enjoying good internal socioeconomic
conditions. -
National level statistics suggest that strong mass religiosity is invariably associated with high levels of stress and anxiety,
which are created by impoverishment, inequality, or economic security, related to high levels of societal dysfunction. These
relationships are largely consistent when the United States, an outlier amongst advanced democracies in the high level of
both religious belief and social decay, is removed from the comparison.
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