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Imagine If All Atheists Left America

Filed Jan 05 2012 in: Atheism by: DeltaV
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Over 10% of American population are atheist:
http://www.atheistempire.com/reference/stats/index.php

Less than 0.21% of prisoners are atheist:
http://holysmoke.org/icr-pri.htm
In response to a freedom of information act request, the Federal Bureau of Prisons says that on February 12, 2010 atheists accounted for just 0.08% of the prison population:http://bornatheist.com/files/Federal_prison_statistics.pdf

Majority of Nobel Prize winners atheist:
The Religiosity and Religious Affiliation of Nobel Prize Winners (Beit-Hallahmi, 1989)

Majority of University professors atheist:
Religion and Spirituality among University Scientists (Ecklund, 2007)

Majority of scientists atheist:
http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Scientists_and_atheism
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html

Atheist Intellectuals:
http://brainz.org/50-most-brilliant-atheists-all-time/
http://www.celebatheists.com/?title=Category:Atheist

Atheist Celebrities:
http://www.celebatheists.com/?title=Main_Page

Poverty rate lower among atheists:
Society Without God (Zuckerman, 2008)
http://www.amazon.com/Society-without-God-Religious-Contentment/dp/0814797148
http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=pzuckerman_…
http://www.pitzer.edu/academics/faculty/zuckerman/Zuckerman_on_Atheism.pdf

IQ higher among atheists:
http://www.interfaith.org/2008/06/20/study-links-atheism-to-high-iq/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2111174/Intelligent-people-less-likely…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence#Studies_comparing_r…
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W4M-4TFV93D-1&…
http://www.humanreligions.info/intelligence.html
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=402381

Illiteracy rate lower among secular counties:
United Nations Human Development Report (2004)
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr04_complete.pdf

Average Income higher among secular countries:
United Nations Human Development Report (2004)
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr04_complete.pdf

Divorce rate lower among atheists:
http://atheism.about.com/od/atheistfamiliesmarriage/a/AtheistsDivorce.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm

Teen pregnancy rate lower among atheists:
http://www.americablog.com/2009/01/red-states-dominate-teen-pregnancy.html

Abortions lower among atheists:
Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies: A First Look (Paul, 2005)
http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html

STD infection lower among atheists:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article571206.ece

Crime rate lower among atheists:
Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies: A First Look (Paul, 2005)

Homicide rate lower among atheists:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article571206.ece
Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies: A First Look (Paul, 2005)
http://www.psychwww.com/psyrelig/zuckerman.htm

Religiosity linked to racial prejudice:
http://uscnews.usc.edu/university/study_links_religion_and_racism.html
http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/5025/53/

Proof that peace is non-theistic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdtwTeBPYQA

Global Peace Index Rankings 2009
• http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi/results/rankings/2009/

Percentage of atheists in the countries mentioned:
http://www.adherents.com

A collection of resources for secular morality:
http://www.reddit.com/r/atheistgems/comments/gsbte/better_without_god_a_colle…
http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=main&page=affirmations

Peace is Non-theistic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRYP4NmWJnE


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