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Talk:Essay: Indian Christian culture is better than low-class atheist "culture" (view source)
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:::::You can expect an answer in Hindi, followed by a smilie, shortly. That's the character of the "man" you are debating. [[User:TracyS|TracyS]] 10:47, 19 July 2011 (EDT)
:::::You can expect an answer in Hindi, followed by a smilie, shortly. That's the character of the "man" you are debating. [[User:TracyS|TracyS]] 10:47, 19 July 2011 (EDT)
:::::::Nate, the Roman Catholic country of Mexico has the second highest obesity rate in the world.[http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity] I cited other data for the [[atheism and obesity]] article. Next, the Bible belt has a number of important demographic/cultural variables not just religion. Fourth, there are more Protestant Christians in the thin Eastern World than in the West. Lastly, in relation to Roman Catholicism, when you type "friar" into search engines some of the top suggestions are "friars table" and "Friar Tuck" which are commonly not associated with slimness. :) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 12:18, 19 July 2011 (EDT)
:::::::Nate, the Roman Catholic country of Mexico has the second highest obesity rate in the world.[http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity] I cited other data for the [[atheism and obesity]] article. Next, the Bible belt has a number of important demographic/cultural variables not just religion. Fourth, there are more Protestant Christians in the thin Eastern World than in the West. Lastly, in relation to Roman Catholicism, when you type "friar" into search engines some of the top suggestions are "friars table" and "Friar Tuck" which are commonly not associated with slimness. :) [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 12:18, 19 July 2011 (EDT)
::::::::The overwhelmingly protestant country of the United States has the first highest obesity rate in the world. You didn't cite any data in support of the proposition that atheists are more likely to be obese. The only data you cited related to the effects of obesity, which is irrelevant to which population is affected by obesity most. Please just admit this and move on. The Bible Belt, which is overwhelmingly protestant, is nonetheless the fattest region in the nation. The correlation is very clear. Causation is not. Studies of the nature I'm referring to state they don't provide insight into causation so I'm not interested in hearing your off the cuff speculations about why the Bible Belt is obese but somehow the clear correlation doesn't matter. All we can talk about is correlation, not causation. I hope you don't deny that. As to there being more protestants in the "thin Eastern World" than in the West, a) you're wrong, and b) so what? The population of India is 1,200,000,000 people in 2011 with 2.3% Christian - that's 27,600,000 people. The population of the United States alone is 311,000,000 with 51% protestant - that's 158,610,000 people. 5.75 times more protestants than in India. Just as you don't know anything about causal factors for obesity in the United States you don't know anything about causal factors for whatever you're calling thinness in the "thin Eastern World" other than what you're going to make up. Just as you're pretending it has to do with their religion, I can say that the correlation between poverty in Central Africa and South Asia is a better example of "thinness" that I would call malnourishment. 40% of people in South Asia and 51% of people in sub Saharan Africa live on less than $1.25 a day. only 2.1% of hungry people live in developed countries. Even if you're right that it is possible to determine a causal relation between religion and thinness, the example of India is a striking opposite of the United States. The US is 51% protestant (25% Catholic) and states in the protestant Bible Belt are all over 30% obese. India is 2% Christian and men are 18% obese and women are 14% obese. So even if you're right you can't draw any good conclusion from numbers like this. And I'm telling you smearing Catholics by pretending Catholicism provides a causal factor in obesity is yet another slander against the Church. Typing "friar" into google doesn't do or mean anything. Just stop it with the anti-Catholic slurs please. [[User:NKeaton|Nate]] 13:03, 19 July 2011 (EDT)