In Reply to: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: caption competition posted by tiempo presente on August 26, 2009 at 23:28:38:

You added the phrase "that do not worship Our Lord" to my more general category of religions. While the Muslims and Jews do not worship Christ they are just as capable of those that call themselves Christians of waging war for their religion too. But the Crusades, the Inquisition, The Holocaust, and even our own super-abundance of paedophile priests preying on children - all would also claim to be Christian and worship the Lord - if you ask them.

The academic paper on religiosity that I referred to above asked people whether they actually prayed to a God and how often - a kind of practical check on their other answers such as do you believe in God. And on that basis the Finns are very low down on the scale with Sweden, Norway, France and Denmark even lower - Ireland is much higher in terms of prayer than any of these countries but yet more violent than these countries.

I think the conclusion is that the more religious a country claims to be the more nasty the country in terms of violence, etc.