I'm looking for statistics such as which religious groups have the highest incidence of crime, divorce, suicide, and all sorts of sociological things like that.  Where can I find such statistics?
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Does this work for you?\n\nhttp://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html\n\n\nI also came across this tidbi you might find interesting.\n\nSome crime statistics from 19th Century India are particularly illuminating with regard to our thesis. In 1881 the frequency of crime by religion was as follows: one of 274 Christian Europeans committed a crime; one of 799 Christian Indians did so; one of 1,361 Hindus; and one of 3,787 Buddhists. If the Jains had been included in this count, one would have expected an even higher ratio for them. With regard to the native Christian count, an English official made the following observation: "It appears from these figures that while we effect a very marked moral deterioration in the natives by converting them to our creed, their natural standard of morality is so high that, however much we Christianize them, we cannot succeed in making them altogether as bad as ourselves." An 1899 statistical dictionary reported that for every 100,000 people in Western Europe there were from 100-230 prisoners; 190 for England; and 38 for India.\n\nhttp://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/hindfund.htm\n\n\n\nThere may be something here:\nhttp://www.thearda.com/\n\nOr here:\nhttp://www.worldchristiandatabase.org/wcd/
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Click on "All Categories."  Find "Society and Culture."  Click on it and you'll find "Religion and Spirituality."
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The Mormon Church and others have great databases that are accessible by internet and in person looking for Geneology.  They can find generations back further than 1700.
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# Christianity: 2.1 billion\n# Islam: 1.3 billion\n# Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion\n# Hinduism: 900 million\n# Chinese traditional religion: 394 million\n# Buddhism: 376 million\n# primal-indigenous: 300 million\n# African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million\n# Sikhism: 23 million\n# Juche: 19 million\n# Spiritism: 15 million\n# Judaism: 14 million\n# Baha'i: 7 million\n# Jainism: 4.2 million\n# Shinto: 4 million\n# Cao Dai: 4 million\n# Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million\n# Tenrikyo: 2 million\n# Neo-Paganism: 1 million\n# Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand\n# Rastafarianism: 600 thousand\n# Scientology: 500 thousand
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The following are the 10 biggest religious bodies in the US. For your purposes, I suspect you can pretty much exclude the Catholics, and I suspect the Methodists aren't what you're looking for either:\n\nThe 2005 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches reported the following figures, based primarily on 2003 denominational reporting data:\n1. Roman Catholic Church: 67.2 million.\n2. Southern Baptist Convention: 16.4 million.\n3. United Methodist Church: 8.2 million.\n4. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 5.5 million.\n5. Church of God in Christ: 5.4 million.\n6. National Baptist Convention USA: 5 million.\n7. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: 4.9 million.\n8. National Baptist Convention of America: 3.5 million.\n9. Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.): 3.2 million.\n10. Assemblies of God: 2.7 million.\n\nI guess the reason why there seem to be so many born-agains on Answers is that it makes a great forum for spouting your believes - proselytizing is a big thing for many born agains. Tell off the sinners.
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you can try www.interfaithcalender.orgor if you are catholic or even christian www.catholicism .com
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The Apologetics Index has much info on many forms of religion and of the ones most considered to be Cults.\nYour  list would not be complete without this.
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The divorce rate is higher because people dont practice religion like they use to....
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Well I'm no American but it's obvious to me, even from outside, that the Republicans, at least, exploit religion and religious people, rather than trying to subdue it, and that the religious right has far more political power in the USA than any other western country. If the article is correct, you are left with having to explain the anomaly that the USA is the most religious western country and ALSO the most consumerist western country. And as far as the best society being based on religious moral codes, then why does the most religious western country have the highest rates of violent crime, teenage pregnancies, abortions, and lowest social justice? (perhaps its relevant that, as shown by psychological experiments and brains scans, cults create barriers where people outside the immediate cultural group are subconsciously seen as less human, or even a threat). Such an article could only convince insular, conspiracy-theory leaning (cultural influence of religious fear?) Americans.\n\nBut yes, everyone is influenced by their cultural environment. The challenge is to see through it as much as possible and everything is worth thinking about.
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http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
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Found a neat website below that has facts.  Peace :-)
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I haven't been able to find a website with that name, but here is a list of the world religions...
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try godhatesfags.com it's kind of on the religious side but alright
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Thats what relgion is about. Look at the history of abuse, torture, inquistions, stonings, sharia, burnings, abuse in kids homes, magdelen laundries (look it up under uk and ireland), gay abuse and sexisim.
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"While murder, lying, stealing are great sins, which can land a person in the Hellfire, belief in any god other than God is called Shirk in Arabic and is unforgivable sin." (http://www.islam101.com/quizes/index.htm)\n\nWith that said many of the terrorist groups are just "groups". They are factions of radicals that kill people in the name of God. What happens in America with factions of highly religious groups that break laws by killing people? The leader or members of the group are dealt with. They are put in jail or taken out. Look at what is happening with the polygamist guy from Utah. He is being hunted down because he is breaking laws. \n\nIn the middle east there is not much security and the governments don't deal with these groups to prevent them from gaining power. If you take Hitler for example he lead a nation that was struggling and was poor. He pushed the blame on someone else for Germany's problems. He blamed the Jewish people. This gave Germans something to believe in. These religious factions or groups are doing the same thing.\n\nThe muslim religion is not bad it is just these factions of people that are causing the issues.\nHope I answered the question from at least my point of view.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam\n\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/islam.htm\n\nhttp://www.carm.org/islam.htm
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http://www.mall-net.com/se_report/#key\nhttp://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stsoc.html#religion\nhttp://www.keyworddensity.com/search_engine_optimization/keyword_density.cgi\nhttps://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordSandbox