Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies

A first look at the rate of religiosity in a country and its crime rate, those bible thumpers are not going to like this at all.
"the United States is the only prosperous first world nation to retain rates of religiosity otherwise limited to the second and third worlds" and "the U.S. is the only prosperous democracy that retains high homicide rates,"
Also "A few hundred years ago rates of homicide were astronomical in Christian Europe and the American colonies. In all secular developing democracies a centuries long-term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows"
And on the sex front "The two main curable STDs have been nearly eliminated in strongly secular Scandinavia" wheras in USA "rates of adolescent gonorrhea infection remain six to three hundred times higher"
First saw article mentioned here http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1798944,00.html