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Imagine If All Atheists Left America

1 decade 3 years 8 months 3 weeks ago

Youtube: Highlighting what would happen if all atheists were to leave America. Details of who would leave, what would change, and a look at other countries with virtually no Atheism.

Reuploaded from ConversationWithA - http://www.youtube.com/user/ConversationWithA

SOURCES:
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

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...

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

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

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

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