[Sudetenland]

Yes, and that is clearly as a result of going to church. /sarc

The facts are clear and undeniable that crime has risen as the belief in and respect for God has fallen. Surely you are not going to argue that the crime rate of today is lower than it was in the fifties and sixties.

Or maybe you would like to compare the crime rates among the secular whites in the Northeast versus those of religious whites in the South.

Remove minorities from the crime rate statistics and the United States has one of, if not the, lowest per capita crime rates in the world. Remove illegitimacy from the African American population and the crime rates among them are very comparable to those among whites. Clearly moral decay is the cause of high crime...religion is the antidote to moral decay...government programs are a catalyst to that same moral decay.

[Clemenza]

Per most FBI stats that I have seen in the past, whites in the South have a higher rate of criminality (in terms of violent offenses) than whites in the north, although both have rates far lower than that for blacks of either region. Levels of education are more closely tied to criminal behavior (to say nothing of divorce) moreso than religious affiliation.

You don't see too many pregnant teenage white girls in the northeast relative to other regions of the country. I seriously doubt that religion has anything to do with that.