Posted on 08/18/2020 12:00:30 PM PDT by Teleios Research
Protecting and providing opportunities to potentially vulnerable individuals marks a compassionate society. Teleios evaluated economic and legal measures that could affect wellbeing of women specifically, who in some cultures are considered vulnerable due to repression and abuse. The study found that women in the freest countries, compared to countries that persecute Christians, demonstrated greater wellbeing and better scores in: literacy rate, life expectancy, school life expectancy, labor force participation, maternal mortality rate, lifetime experience of violence, sex trafficking, and life satisfaction (P≤ 0.006). In summary, populations in countries with greater freedom, which typically are Christian, demonstrate better overall wellbeing, and other legal, educational, and social measures that could enhance wellbeing, than in countries that persecute Christians. Read more at https://teleiosresearch.com/effect-christian-persecution-womens-wellbeing/
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I’ve met atheists who agree with this opinion.
If your thesis were true, the decline of the Western Roman Empire would have reversed in the 4th Century. Rome declined faster the more christian it became.
Our Founding Fathers stated that our Common Law was based in Christianity. If we lose our Christianity, we lose the base of our Law.
Correlation. Not causality.
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