Thursday, June 02, 2011

HOMICIDE AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF

(h/t Andrew Sullivan)

Alex Tabarrok dug up some interesting data on the change in homicide rates in America and Europe over the centuries. There has been a fairly steady decline in both areas:

EUROPE:

AMERICA:

The decline seems to be relatively independent of religious belief because America is at least nominally much more religious than Europe:

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