This postorm presents a statistical analysis of occurrence of bad things - like abortions, homicides, Infant deaths and teen suicides in different western developed countries.

The results are damning for the US.

The countries are Australia Canada Denmark Great Britain France Germany Holland Ireland Japan Switzerland Norway Portugal Austria Spain Italy United States Sweden New Zealand.

The US is top in homicides (per capita). Not just top but way ahead of the nearest contender: Portugal, and more than treble every other country.

On Infant mortality, Portugal trumps the US, with Ireland coming in third, but the US is back on top for the number of teenage abortions.

The commonly held religious position in the US is that abortion should be illegal (which based on the US experince with prohibition has nothing to do with whether it happens, but merely with the status of those who do it, and the people who provide it.).

 The report makes an interesting correlation. There is a very clear correlation between abortions and believing in God, and  between infant mortality and believing in God. The more people who believe in God the more abortions occur, and the more infants die. The more people who pray the more abortions occur, and the more infants die. This correlation casts "In God We trust" in a very poor light.

Am I likely to hear support for "Reduce the abortions and infant deaths by stopping believing in God; and stopping praying"? I doubt it, but that's what the numbers say.