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Atheism and divorce (view source)
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The fertility rate is significantly lower in the atheist population (see: [[Atheism and fertility rates]]).
The fertility rate is significantly lower in the atheist population (see: [[Atheism and fertility rates]]).
As far as atheists and divorce, Vox Day wrote in his book ''The Irrational Atheist'' about atheist [[Daniel Dennet]]'s arguments related to divorce:
{{Cquote|As evidence that moral democracy is theoretically functional, he asserts without evidence that the prison population is distributed according to religious affiliation in the general population, an incorrect assertion that was belied in chapter I. Dennett further claims that “brights” have better family values than born-again Christians based on “the lowest divorce rate in the United States” which depends on the flawed 1999 Barna study instead of the 2001 ARIS study he makes use of later in the book, a much larger study that reaches precisely the opposite conclusion. It is certainly a quixotic assertion, considering that these family value atheists
are half as likely to get married, twice as likely to divorce, and have fewer children than any other group in the United States...
Barna calculated divorces as a percentage of the entire group, not as a percentage of marriages within that group. Since according to ARIS 2001 more than half of all atheists and agnostics don’t get married, this is an apple-orange comparison. If one correctly excludes the never-married from the calculation, then atheists are 58.7 percent more likely to get divorced than Pentecostals and Baptists, the two born-again Christian groups with the highest rate of divorce, and more than twice as likely to get divorced than Christians in general.<ref>[https://www.chcpublications.net/IrrationalAtheist.pdf The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, And Hitchens] by Vox Day, ASIN: 1933771364, Publisher: BenBella Books (March 11, 2008)</ref>}}
== Atheism and divorce statistics ==
== Atheism and divorce statistics ==