Religion and morality

A commenter asks about the relationship over time between religiosity, and crime and " sexual deviance. " You got it!If you will refer to my previous post on declining religiosity in America (or just take my word for it) the trend toward fewer people claiming religious affiliation began in about 1992. What a coinkydink! That ' s exactly when the crime rate began to decline. Here are property crimes (data is from the Bureau of Justice Statistics andI cribbed it from the Wikipedia article):  And whaddya know, that ' s also exactly when the homicide rate started to decline! (Note that it first started to go up sharply in the 1950s, a period of particular piety and conformity.)   I don ' t know what the commenter means by sexual deviance, but if he means sexual abuse of children,I got your sexual deviance right here!   A recent literature review by a University of Alberta cult expert and his former graduate student paints a startling and consistent picture of institutional secrecy and widespread protection of those who abuse children in religious institutions " in ways that often differ from forms of manipulation in secular settings. " It ' s thefirst comprehensive study exposing patterns of sexual abuse in religious settings. . . .The result is " the first of its kind to provide a theoretical framework for analyzing and discussing religiously based child and teen sexual grooming, " he said. One of the best-knowncases of such grooming...
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