{"id":2145,"date":"2015-09-08T10:42:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T14:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2015-09-08T11:05:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T15:05:27","slug":"pathology-and-religiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2145","title":{"rendered":"Pathology and religiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has long been known that social and family pathologies are most acute where religiosity is strongest; <a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/07\/the-correlation-of-high-religiosity-in-america-with-everything-bad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jerry Coyne<\/a> rounds-up a nice collection of the graphics.<\/p>\n<p>Typical:<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/tbrr.jpg\" width=550><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Coyne has compiled, published and presented a lot of data over the years which appear to point toward the conclusion that social stresses precede intense religiosity, that religion grows best where there is a sick, stressed, decadent culture.  He&#8217;s got the data, so I don&#8217;t want to pick a fight with him, but I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the entire story.  Once rooted, religious communities conspire against the progress that would relieve those stresses; Christianity <i>needs<\/i> sickness to flourish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has long been known that social and family pathologies are most acute where religiosity is strongest; Jerry Coyne rounds-up a nice collection of the graphics. Typical: Coyne has compiled, published and presented a lot of data over the years &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2145\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}