Heaving Dead Cats » Stats http://www.heavingdeadcats.com Skeptical Freethought Atheist Musings to Dispel Ignorance and Enlighten the Mind Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:20:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 What Would An Atheist Free America Be Like? http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/2009/08/12/what-would-an-atheist-free-america-be-like/ http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/2009/08/12/what-would-an-atheist-free-america-be-like/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:34:24 +0000 Neece http://www.heavingdeadcats.com/?p=1928 The other day Mark over at Proud Atheists posted an article titled What If All Atheists Left America? What he wrote is based on the video that he had in the post. It’s very well done, in my opinion and I had to share it with you. It’s 2:18 minutes long:

What is even better is if you go to youtube’s page for it, in the description, the creator, ConversationWithA, lists all the sources used to put it together. Here is the list: (I’ve added a few notes where relevant. My notes are marked with an *)

SOURCES:
Over 10% of American population are atheist:
http://www.atheistempire.com/reference/stats/index.php

*ARIS 2008: Americans claiming no religion has now increased to 15 percent. Given the estimated growth of the American adult population since the last census from 207 million to 228 million, that reflects an additional 4.7 million “Nones.”

Less than 0.25% of prisoners are atheist:
http://holysmoke.org/icr-pri.htm

*Atheist Empire: “Out of convicted rapists, 57% admitted to reading pornography. 95% admitted to reading the Bible.”

*1997 stats from Federal Bureau of Prisons: Atheist: 0.209%  (It would be good if someone would do this study again)

Majority of Nobel Prize winners atheist:
The Religiosity and Religious Affiliation of Nobel Prize Winners (Beit-Hallahmi, 1989)

*List of Atheists in Science and Technology (includes Nobel Prize winners, of course)

Majority of University professors atheist:
Religion and Spirituality among University Scientists (Ecklund, 2007)

* Pdf of the study

Majority of scientists atheist:
http://freethoughtpedia.com/wiki/Scientists_and_atheism

*List of Atheists in Science and Technology

Atheist Intellectuals:
http://brainz.org/50-most-brilliant-atheists-all-time/
http://www.celebatheists.com/?title=Category:Atheist

*Atheist Authors

Atheist Celebrities:
http://www.celebatheists.com/?title=Main_Page

*Atheists in Film, Radio, TV and Theater

Poverty rate lower among atheists:
Society Without God (Zuckerman, 2008)

*Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment

IQ higher among atheists:
http://www.interfaith.org/2008/06/20/study-links-atheism-to-high-iq/

*The study was done by Richard Lynn.

Illiteracy rate lower among atheists:
United Nations Human Development Report (2004)

*Human Development Reports

Average Income higher among atheists:
United Nations Human Development Report (2004)

*Human Development Reports

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)

*The above study is here in full.

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)

*The above study is here in full.

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)

*The above study is here in full.

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

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So, if you haven’t heard, WolframAlpha, the latest, coolest “computational knowledge engine” is out and ready to play with. It still has a long way to go with adding more functionality, but there’s a lot in there. I was asking it questions regarding religions and that wasn’t really an option yet. Go over and try a few questions, watch the video, and see if you won’t at least bookmark the site. It’s geektastic, if you ask me. :)

One question I asked it was how many people per church are in my town? Unfortunately it didn’t know how many churches were here, so that didn’t work. But it told me the population, so that was a start. Also it has handy links down on the right. One was to Wikipedia which had an even newer figure for my town’s population. So then I went to Google Maps and asked it to tell me where all the churches are in my town. Here is a summary of what I found:

  • Population: 19,096 people
  • Area: 8.2 sq. miles
  • Churches: 6302

That’s 3 people per church. WTF? That can’t be right!?

Now, I think some of those 6,302 churches are in the surrounding area outside of town. So I redefined my search to be near the main street of downtown. I got 6,296 churches. Within 8 miles of downtown, I would say the first 10 pages of results would be a fair estimate. That’s about 100 churches. Whew.. that’s much better. I was freaking out there for a minute.

That still means 191 people per church. That makes more sense, I guess. But seriously, driving through our sleepy little town, there’s a church on every corner, it seems. The major denominations competing for the sheeple are catholic and methodist. We have a pentacostal church near our house too.

Well, now that I’ve wasted an hour of my day, and a few minutes of yours, I’ll go work on Butch’s computer. Which reminds me, if you’re a geek, I’d love to be your new BFF! :D I know just enough about computers to get myself deep into trouble and not be able to get back out of it again. So wish me luck. I’m diving in headfirst!

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  • More than 99 percent of terrorists are bread eaters.
  • Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
  • In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.
  • More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
  • Bread is made from “dough.” It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average North American eats more bread than that in one month!
  • Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, and osteoporosis.
  • Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water begged for bread after as little as two days.
  • Bread is often a “gateway” food item, leading the user to “harder” items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.
  • In a recent top secret government report, it has been shown that Hitler, Stalin, Ted Bundy, and ALL 19 highjackers of the 911 Trajedy were frequent bread eaters.
  • Newborn babies can choke on bread and die.
  • Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 350 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
  • 87% of bread consumers cannot distinguish scientific fact from statistical doubletalk.

    • We MUST TAKE ACTION NOW. The Bread Board may seem innocent but these lies and statistics have been buried in secret reports long enough.

    The following proposals must be enacted by Congress now, before it’s too late.

    1. Bread sales to minors must be banned.
    2. We must start a campaign to educate the public of the dangers of bread and bread products. A proposed title is “Just Say No To Toast.”
    3. A 300% federal “sin” tax must be added to all bread products to pay for education and cessation programs.
    4. No animal or human images and no bright, primary colors which may appeal to children and the elderly may be used to promote any bread product or encourage bread usage.
    5. We must establish “Bread Free” Zones around all schools and places frequented by children.
    6. Parents or guardians found feeding their children bread will be arrested and the child will be sent to an established 3 year recovery camp in Idaho.

    Stats and proposals found here, thank you.

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    Catholic                29267   39.164%
    Protestant             26162   35.008%
    Muslim                       5435    7.273%
    American Indian         2408    3.222%
    Nation                        1734    2.320%
    Rasta                          1485    1.987%
    Jewish                         1325    1.773%
    Church of Christ    1303    1.744%
    Pentecostal           1093    1.463%
    Moorish                      1066    1.426%
    Buddhist                     882    1.180%
    Jehovah Witness    665    0.890%
    Adventist              621    0.831%
    Orthodox              375    0.502%
    Mormon                298    0.399%
    Scientology                190    0.254%
    Atheist                 156    0.209%
    Hindu                         119    0.159%
    Santeria                      117    0.157%
    Sikh                            14    0.019%
    Bahai                           9    0.012%
    Krishna                       7    0.009%

    http://holysmoke.org/icr-pri.htm

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