Hi RazD

Yes I’m starting to get the idea that Russ T is not generally interested in the discussions he stirs up.

I think the differences in divorce rates are significant in every sense of that word, the sample sizes were sufficient to establish statistical significance, the differences were well outside the error bars, and the picture it paints is clearly significant to this discussion.

LOL I wonder what the divorce rate is among gay couples? Now that could add an interesting twist to this discussion. I guess there are not enough of them to assemble a statistically significant cohort at this stage at least.

The federal prison statistics could be skewed by a number of factors not the least being that it is seen as an out from prison to find god. The figures are however consistent world wide where this is not the case and they are statistically significant so I think they are worthy of discussion. You are right that socioeconomic factors may well play a part but many of those factors are also telling. It’s interesting to note both that the more educated someone is the more money they are likely to make and the less likely they are to be a believer? Why is there an inverse relationship between level of education and fundamentalist religious beliefs?

I think we can show a link between religiosity and immorality. Now whether that link is causal or the two correlate due to other factors I think is open to debate but there is a statistically significant inverse correlation between religiosity and morality I would suggest.

All the best.

Russell