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Irreligious Australia and intelligence (view source)
Revision as of 05:22, March 17, 2017
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Currently, there is a downward trend in intelligence scores in secular countries (see: [[Intelligence trends in religious countries and secular countries]]).
Currently, there is a downward trend in intelligence scores in secular countries (see: [[Intelligence trends in religious countries and secular countries]]).
== Australia, societal decline and intelligence ==
Children in dysfunctional homes/communities and/or homes/communities with financial problems often perform poorer on intelligence tests as result.<ref>[http://articles.latimes.com/1991-02-17/news/mn-2176_1_sexual-abuse Studies Link Childhood Abuse to Adult Social Dysfunction : Research: Neglect is tied to lower IQs and misuse of drugs, alcohol. Results also dispel notions related to temperament and prostitution.] February 17, 1991|THOMAS H. MAUGH II | TIMES SCIENCE WRITER</ref><ref>[http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/science-and-technology/intelligence-quotient-james-flynn Received wisdom: Average IQ is falling in Britain and beyond, explains Philip Hunter] by Philip Hunt, March 21, 2012, Published in April 2012 issue of Prospect Magazine</ref>
Peter Costello wrote in the Australian publication The Age:
{{Cquote|Our society was founded by British colonists. And the single most decisive feature that determined the way it developed was the Judeo-Christian-Western tradition. As a society, we are who we are because of that heritage.
I am not sure this is well understood in Australia today. It may be that a majority of Australians no longer believes the orthodox Christian faith. But whether they believe it or not, the society they share is one founded on that faith and one that draws on the Judeo-Christian tradition....
Unfortunately today we see that legacy fraying all around us.
We do not have to look far to see evidence of moral decay around us. We can see it and hear it in entertainment like rap music, in songs that glorify violence or suicide or exploitation of others.
As we speak, drug barons compete for the distribution rights to sell drugs to our children in Melbourne. These rights are so lucrative that they are prepared to kill to protect their profits, with 24 or 25 unsolved gangland murders in Victoria since 1998.
These barons sell young people into addiction. Drugs break up families and marriages. Many addicts end up in prostitution or burglary. These outcomes are the very antitheses of all those values set out in the Ten Commandments about how to order society.
People well known to the police apparently live in luxury with no visible means of support or explanation as to how they maintain their lifestyles. And it seems to me that as a society we have become complacent about this issue - in some cases, the media have glamorised it.<ref>[The moral decay of Australia] by Peter Costello, ''The Age'', 2004</ref>}}
As far as a comparison between atheistic/[[theism|theistic]] homes/individuals, see:
*[[Secular Europe and intelligence#Secular Europe, culture and intelligence|Secular Europe, culture and intelligence]]
*[[Atheism and culture]]
*[[Atheism and health]]
*[[Atheism and alcoholism]]
*[[Atheism and drug addiction]]
*[[Atheism statistics]]
*[[Atheism and suicide]]
*[[Irreligion and domestic violence]]
*[[Atheism and emotional/intrapersonal intelligence|Atheism and emotional intelligence]]
*[[Atheism and social/interpersonal intelligence|Atheism and social intelligence]]
*[[Atheism and marriage]]
* [[Atheism and poor relationships with parents]]
*[[Atheism and the theory of multiple intelligences]]
For more information, including how economic/societal deterioration is lowering intelligence scores in some secular countries, please see: [[Intelligence trends in religious countries and secular countries]]
== See also ==
== See also ==