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Zombieguy1987

History has shown that religion has been violent, but are religious nations better than non-religious
Try to persuade me

Agility_Dude

I agree with Wowsil. I find that religion often creates ignorance and a lack of critical thinking, because it give people the mentality of "god knows best".

MayCaesar

This is a bit of a loaded question. There are different religious nations out there, and different non-religious nations out there. I would say that atheist Finland is better than religious Yemen, but religious UAE is better than atheist North Korea.

"All other things equal", however... Religious nations tend to severely under-perform economically and socially, since their political systems are based on old holy books and not on the economical and political sciences, and religion can never replace science when it comes to practical implementation of complex systems.