[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So we agree that hair splitting on numbers from various sources is not
worthwhile ... so let's focus on the big picture ...
> christians? Do you have any independent evidence to test this
> hyposthesis (how do you measure "patriarchal mind set" and does it vary
> by religion as birth rates vary by religion?)
On a scale from zero to one, where zero is perfect gender balance and
one is perfect patriarchal imbalance, which of the following religions
is the most patriarchal? Which is the least patriarchal?
A. Bahai
B. Evangelical Christianity
C. Hindi
D. Islam
E. Roman Catholic
> You focus on religious institutions, but have you ruled out a competing
> hypothesis: poverty? Education seems like an appropriate response
> either way, but I suspect you will have difficulty passing legislation
> to pay for your educational program by taxing some religious
> institutions and not others. You might have better luck paying for sex
> education in public schools by taxing proportional to income,
> regardless of religion.
As I have stated, I have not ruled out any other factors, including
poverty ... I am simply focusing on religious violence because it is a
factor that is seldom considered.
> Glad to see you agree with the conclusions of a scientific literature
> review on religion and fertility.
I am very familiar with the scientific literature on religion and the
relationship of religion to several other knowledge domains including
fertility, but I don't presume I have read every article that has been
written. Will try to get a copy of the McQuillan article but, while his
conclusions are reasonable, they do not explicitly consider the issue of
religious violence ... do they?
Luis
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