{"id":9149,"date":"2010-11-26T19:07:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T19:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/11\/26\/is-religion-a-good-or-evil-for\/"},"modified":"2010-11-26T19:07:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T19:07:21","slug":"is-religion-a-good-or-evil-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/26\/is-religion-a-good-or-evil-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Is religion a good or evil force in society?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans and citizens of some of the most Islamic countries tend to agree that it is a force acting on the side of good. Many Europeans say the opposite. There is a rough correlation between the religiosity of a country and how much religion is revered (duh) as a primarily good thing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-d4a21255e6e0a599f0f8e00054d4af67-religion_poll.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-d4a21255e6e0a599f0f8e00054d4af67-religion_poll.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThis poll was conducted in connection with the upcoming debate between Christopher Hitchens and Tony Blaire.  The overall results, combining answers across countries, indicates that a slim majority of humans are rather suspicious of religion&#8217;s value as an ethical or moral compass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans and citizens of some of the most Islamic countries tend to agree that it is a force acting on the side of good. Many Europeans say the opposite. There is a rough correlation between the religiosity of a country and how much religion is revered (duh) as a primarily good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2nz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}