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Outliers: The USA as the falsifying elephant in the room. Confounders: Stratify data according to types of religiosity. Temporal effect: Correlate religiosity with trends rather than the status quo. Tautologies: Exclude HDIs that axiomatically define non-religious values systems as cultural merit.
And you get a very different picture.
The west rose to pre-eminence with the Reformation and Renaissance, when Anti-Romanist (Biblical) Christianity took hold in Europe. What has the trend been in the 4 or so decades since epistemic naturalism became de rigueur at the popular level?
Least religious:
Canada, UK, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand
I think you have a point but weren't these countries religious at one point? With the exception of a few weren't they mostly Protestant? Shouldn't that be taken into account in their development?
People in poorer countries draw strength from religion. When you're fat and happy, it's easy to put God side. As noted above, most successful countries today experienced their fastest growth while taking their religion seriously. Correlation does not imply causation.
India and Israel. Religious and doing quite well. I don't think Japan is non-religious so you put it on the wrong list.
The USA did much better when it was religious and believed in the protestant work ethic.
Saudi Arabia, very rich, very religious.
I don't think your list has anything to do with religion. I think the divider there is location on the map.
India doing quite well Dirt everywhere, rats running around, people pooping on the streets and washing their body and clothing in rivers.
I said in "general" it doesn't apply to every country, Saudi Arabia is only rich because of their oil and being rich is not the only thing that makes a country successful.
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Dirt everywhere, rats running around, people pooping on the streets and washing their body and clothing in rivers.
