Why are the most Christian nations (like the US) the least moral?

Question

YOU MUST FOLLOW THE LINK TO SEE THE STUDY


Read what I wrote above.


That's right: The US is one of the most Christian of the developed nations. Yet it has the highest dysfunction defined by such indicators of poor societal health as homicide, suicide, low life expectancy, STD infection, abortion, early pregnancy, and high childhood mortality (under five-years old).


Again, read the top line and follow the link to see the study.

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http://www.skeptic.com/the_magazine/featured_articles/v12n03_are_religious_societies_healthier.html

I don't think most of the Christians here are even reading the question, let alone the study... The US is MORE Christian now then it has ever been. The US is MORE Christian than any of these other nations which are mostly secular. The comparison countries are if anything MORE free than the US and they are more secular.

Yet it is the US who has the highest rates of dysfunction.

Answer 1

Because morality and honesty have nothing to do with religion.

In the Arab countries, where every one is a fundamentalist Muslim, theft cheating and bribery are a way of life.

Answer 2

The United States isn't a Christian nation. While people, when asked, associate themselves with Christianity, most of them don't attend church or follow the tenets.

The social issues have little or nothing to do with Christianity; they have to do with our society punishing the citizen and rewarding the lawbreaker (from white-collar CEO crime to street crime) and the consumerism.

Money and acquiring useless and pointless possessions are the worshipped deities in the U.S., not the Christian God.

Now, I will admit, I find it exceptionally offensive that the McChurches are popping up all over, these multi-million dollar buildings which should have been used to feed the poor. Then again, that's the reason I'm not a Christian.

Good Christians know that Christianity is like this, and the pseudo-Christians do not care. Considering we need good Christians (actually good ones, not the 1/365 seat-warmers or the bigoted zealots), people attacking the good ones doesn't help anyone.

The anti-U.S. stuff is really getting old, people. We know we're not perfect. However, if we're so bad, why do we have so many illegal aliens desperate to cross the borders? Why do people want to immigrate to the U.S.? I may not be a slobbering flag-waver, but instead of complaining how awful the country is then go off to check out the next Bejeweled patch, CHANGE IT.

Answer 3

Because the United States is a Name only Christian nation.

Even "Skeptics" know that a Christian should be a person who reflects the life and values of Christ 24/7.

But the biggest reason to your question is the separation between church and state. The Church is not the ruling body the government is. The danger is when religion becomes the governing body look at the extremist Muslin nations that permit honor killing, stoning and other such atrocities in the name of Allah.

Answer 4

I was just talking about the same thing with some of my friends. I think Christians as a whole do not speak out for what they truly believe is right. This is why prayer was taken out of schools and God taken out of parliament. Wherever you go there is sex, porn, drugs. Not enough people are speaking out against it. there should be no reason for porn mags being sold in corner stores. It seems the people with the least morality are the ones who are the loudest. This country, both USA and Canada used to be a lot more moral and safe. It's just been in the last 50 or so years, even less than that, that it has become a place where I feel I have to protect my children's eyes and ears everywhere we go. If more people, not just Christians (although Christians are supposed to be the ones that speak out and often don't) speak out for what is right instead of what is wanted or should be tolerated then and only then will this world be cleaned up for us and our future generations. Sadly, people amount what is right to an infringement on their personal rights... so unfortunately minorities will always have that one.

Answer 5

I guess I resent calling the US a Christian nation. It's not even as Christian, say, Argentina where it's the state religion. It *is* a whole lot more repressed and conservative however and that's what matters. We're too quick to throw out science in favor of good old fashioned religion when it comes to any issue of public health (e.g. prostitutions is everywhere but illegal so there's no guarantees of health. Abstinence only is about the least effective control of STDs yet it's the only one the feds will pay for).

And as to being moral...that's an entirely unnecessary judgement in itself.

By the way, I'm still not sure suicide (whose chief cause is the chemically caused disease known as depression) really belongs on a list of signs of moral decay. You might as well lump in mononucleosis.

Answer 6

The United States might be full of Christians but it isn't a "Christian Nation." There is no state-sponsored religion that we all must practice. The US was founded on principles of religious freedom and is a secular society. Our laws have Judeo-Christian heritage. Christianity happens to be the majority religion but, contrary to the belief of the people on Yahoo Answers, everyone is free to practice their own thing so long as it doesn't impinge on anybody else's deal. That includes Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Atheists and a bunch of others I can't think of right now.

Answer 7

Skeptic Magazine posted the results of a series of comparisons between religious nations and secular ones. It concluded that in nearly all areas, the more secular the nation's society was, the more moral it was. The US was at the bottom rung of the results with the highest crime, early pregnancy, and abortion rates.

Answer 8

In developed countries, the statistics for adverse indicators are available but in developing and poor countries such information is not available (rather such information is concealed). The fact of the matter is that the adverse indicators mentioned by the questioner ara more frequent in developing and poor countries and these are seldom reported.

Answer 9

Because we are not socialists, communists, etc. We do not have to keep our Christian faith in Jesus Christ hidden in the closet for fear of being slain for not following the religion that the country's leadership says we must follow.

Since we allow the most freedom of any other nation, we have more who choose to live an immoral lifestyle. I am not happy that we are one of the most immoral nations in the world, but would rather live here than in a country where I am told what to do, how to act, and what to think.

The only thing I can do is pray that God never removes His hand from the USA, pray that the US will come to realize the one true God and ammend their ways, and continue to spread the Good News that Jesus Christ is Lord.

Answer 10

Your idea of morality is as filthy rags to God. You will not enter God's kingdom on your morality. We all need the atonement of Christ. I'm not sure what moral country you are from but countries with less freedom may appear to you to be more moral however we are all sinners and it is according to your heart that you will be judged God can not be legislated. Edit: Am I missing somehting or do the graphs show that the US has the highest percentage of believers while having the highest percentage of Athiest and Agnostics?

Answer 11

What link?