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Besides, there are plenty more countries beside Sweden with high atheist numbers and high happiness ratings. I linked the info in the other thread.
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If they're so happy, why aren't they able to reproduce at replacement levels? No one seems to have a reasonable answer for this.
From a Darwinian point of view, a happy (fit, successful) species makes lots of offspring. What's going on with these high % atheist countries?
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Yes, those Africans are having a ball in good old Africa...
You can't think of any reasons? For real?
1. Dumb people have more kids. That's fact. Dumb people are also more likely to be religious
2. Many churches shun birth control - the Catholics with over a billion members, forbid it. No birth control = heaps more kids, obviously
3. Religion actually teaches people to multiply. Having heaps of kids is considered a good thing. (Another one of the evils of religion as the world approaches overpopulation).
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This is essentially a dodge. If we're interested in Western countries, and I am, it's difficult to find the secular society that is breeding at replacement. Ireland is the European champ with a 1st class economy, high church attendence and a solid birthrate. Compare that to Spain or Italy (talk about Catholic!), not Nigeria.
There's something in it that makes the atheists understandably uncomfortable. When a cohort is not reproducing, something is amiss. It's easy to say that the cohort is 'too smart' to reproduce but I'm sure you can see how lame that sounds. My own guess is that the cohort is too selfish to reproduce.