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The undeniable correlation is in demographics. Is it a coincidence that America is the most priviledged country on earth? Or does it correlate with us having the largest percentage of evangelicals on earth?



Hmm. That must be a strange sort of privilege. If you count the amount of crimes, homicides, gang violence, analphabetism, superstition, sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancies, abortions, poverty, slums etc. as privileges, the US are indeed a lot more privileged than most secular countries, but still a step behind Uganda, Zaire, or Congo. There are some studies that indeed correlate the social problems of America to its percentage of evangelicals:

http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html

http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2006/2006-7.html

"Data correlations show that in almost all regards the highly secular democracies consistently enjoy low rates of societal dysfunction, while pro-religious and anti-evolution America performs poorly."