Rodney Stark

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America is an unusually religious nation.

Can anyone seriously imagine a society without stable families? Maybe we should raise all the kids in state orphanages.

Regular church-goers are substantially more likely than non-attenders to read, to take newspapers and magazines, to listen to classical music, to attend symphony concerts, operas, and stage plays.

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For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

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Theology necessitates an image of God as a conscious, rational, supernatural being of unlimited power and scope who cares about humans and imposes moral codes and responsibilities upon them, thereby generating serious intellectual questions such as: 'Why does God allow us to sin?' 'Does the Sixth Commandment prohibit war?'

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