{"id":2637,"date":"2005-09-28T09:31:15","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T07:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2005\/09\/28\/got-god"},"modified":"2005-09-28T09:31:15","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T07:31:15","slug":"got-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2005\/09\/28\/got-god","title":{"rendered":"Got God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-1798944,00.html\">indicates<\/a> that belief in and worship of God are not only unnecessary for a healthy society but may actually contribute to social problems:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies.<br \/>\nThe United States is almost always the most dysfunctional of the developing democracies, sometimes spectacularly so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somewhere, FZ&#8217;s nodding &#8220;told you so&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research indicates that belief in and worship of God are not only unnecessary for a healthy society but may actually contribute to social problems: In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2005\/09\/28\/got-god\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}