This Chris Kelly headline [1] says it all:
America: #1 in Bibles. #37 in Infant Mortality.
Here’s an excerpt from Kelly’s Huffpo article:
Europeans are feeling pretty smug lately, with their sturdy currency, “health care,” and rising rates of life expectancy, but there’s one area where we kick their ass: American Christians read the bible a lot more often than European Christians do.
Here are a few interesting tidbits about the Bible (these are some of my previous Bible-relevant posts from Dangerous Intersection):
Reading violent Bible stories can make you more violent [2].
If you’re a Bible literalist who’s going to read the Bible, don’t cherry-pick [3]. Make sure you read these parts too [4].
The Bible is not really inerrant [5].
Adam might have had a belly button [6].
You can love going to church, even if you’re an atheist [7].
The New Testament says some bizarre things about morality [8] (in addition to saying some very good things).
And finally (as Kelly suggests), most Americans who claim to read the Bible are liars [9].
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I’ll end on a bleak note, because I’ve made the mistake of paying too much attention to the “news” today: The intellectual deterioration of the United States [10] is about to his critical mass (or has it already?).
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