Furthermore, in terms of the large blue areas of the map. not only due the countries have a cultural legacy of [[Protestantism]], [[Australia]] is a land surrounded by oceans which give it natural protection and much of Canada is surrounded by ocean and the United States/Canada have no desire to engage in hostilities. Furthermore, given [[Canada]]'s proximity to the [[United States]] (which is a superpower), it has an ally in the United States which gives it further protection. Post-WWII Japan was greatly influence by Protestant culture (see: [[Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism#Japan|Protestant influence on Japan]]).
As far as the 28 countries in [[NATO]], as of 2016, only 5 of the countries are meeting NATO's official obligations of spending 2% of their GDP on defense - U.S., Greece, Poland, Estonia and the U.K.<ref>[httphttps://money.cnn.com/2016/07/08/news/nato-summit-spending-countries/ These NATO countries are not spending their fair share on defense]</ref> So while certain NATO countries may be deemed more peaceful by the Global Peace Index due to their lower defense budgets (the Global Peace Index uses military expenditure as a percentage of GDP and a countries degree of militarization), they are not living up to their commitments and instead sponging off the NATO members who are meeting their obligations. According to CNN, "NATO admits it has an "over-reliance" on the U.S. for the provision of essential capabilities, including intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, air-to-air refueling, ballistic missile defense and airborne electronic warfare."<ref>[httphttps://money.cnn.com/2016/07/08/news/nato-summit-spending-countries/ These NATO countries are not spending their fair share on defense]</ref> So various countries in [[secular Europe]] are largely sponging off the United States to protect them from [[Russia]] which recently had about a 70 year cultural legacy of [[militant atheism]]. According to ''Bloomberg News'', if [[Denmark]] were to meet its NATO financial obligations, which [[Donald Trump]] is insisting that NATO members do, that would break their [[welfare state]].<ref>[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-20/trump-s-nato-spending-demand-would-break-denmark-s-welfare-state Trump’s NATO Spending Demand Would Break Denmark’s Welfare State], Bloomberg News</ref>
A further analysis of secular European culture is provided below and [[WWI]] and [[WWII]] is discussed below along with the [[European Union]]. In addition, further analysis of the United States, Russia/Soviet Union is given below along with material dealing with [[China]].
Charles Darwin wrote in his work ''[[The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex]]'':
{{cquote|At some future period not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes...will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest Allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as the baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla.<ref>http://www.aim.org/wls/90/</ref><ref name="DoM6">[httphttps://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/dscmn10.txt The Descent of Man], chapter VI</ref>}}
=== WWI and Darwinism ===
== European Union ==
Many political scientists and others credit the [[European Union]] (EU) with largely preventing war in Europe for about the last 70 years (Much of WWI and WWII were fought on European soil).<ref>[httphttps://www.economist.com/node/3194365 Peace in our time], ''The Economist''</ref> In recent years, conflicts dealing with economics (see: [[Eurozone Crisis]]), national sovereignty and immigration has threatened to breakup the EU and recently contributed to Britain leaving the (see: [[Brexit]]).
Economic conditions and Muslim immigration has also caused both violent and peaceful demonstrations in Europe.
As Allied troops entered and occupied Germany during the latter part of [[World War II]], mass rapes occurred in connection with combat operations and during the occupation which followed. Historians in the [[Western World]] generally conclude that the majority of the rapes were committed by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] servicemen.
The majority of the rapes happened in the Soviet occupation zone. Estimates of the number of German women sexually assaulted by Soviet soldiers have ranged up to 2 million.<ref name="ElizabethHeineman">{{cite journal |first=Elizabeth |last=Heineman |title=The Hour of the Woman: Memories of Germany's "Crisis Years" and West German National Identity |journal=American Historical Review|volume=101 |issue=2 |year=1996 |pages=354–395 |jstor=2170395 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Kuwert |first=P. |last2=Freyberger |first2=H. |year=2007 |title=The unspoken secret: Sexual violence in World War II |journal=International Psychogeriatrics |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=782–784 |doi=10.1017/S1041610207005376 }}</ref><ref name="BBC">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/berlin_01.shtml|title=BBC - History - World Wars: The Battle for Berlin in World War Two|publisher=Bbc.co.uk|accessdate=10 December 2014}}</ref><ref name="Schissler">Hanna Schissler ''The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany, 1949–1968'' [httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=00fCzJKt1QMC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=soviet+estimates+rape+tens+of+thousands&source=web&ots=xzyKzJm1sj&sig=cy2AfPmp7ZvT7K9YSWPRkXoyp6E]</ref><ref name="NPR">{{cite web|url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106687768|title=Silence Broken On Red Army Rapes In Germany|date=17 July 2009|work=NPR.org|accessdate=10 December 2014}}</ref> The historian William Hitchcock declared that in many cases women were the victims of repeated rapes, some women experienced as many as 60 to 70 rapes.<ref name="Struggle for Europe">{{cite book |first=William I. |last=Hitchcock |title=The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945 to the Present |publisher=Anchor Books |year=2004 |url=http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385497992&view=excerpt |isbn=978-0-385-49799-2}}</ref>
After the atheist leader of the Soviet Union [[Joseph Stalin]] received a complaint from Yugoslav politician Milovan Djilas about rapes in Yugoslavia, Stalin reportedly said that he should "understand it if a soldier who has crossed thousands of kilometres through blood and fire and death has fun with a woman or takes some trifle."<ref>Anne Applebaum, ''Iron Curtain, The Crushing of Eastern Europe'', p.32</ref> Also, when told that Red Army soldiers sexually assaulted German refugees, Stalin reportedly declared: "We lecture our soldiers too much; let them have their initiative."<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080493/Stalins-army-rapists-The-brutal-war-crime-Russia-Germany-tried-ignore.html | location=London | work=Daily Mail | first=Andrew | last=Roberts | title=Stalin's army of rapists: The brutal war crime that Russia and Germany tried to ignore | date=24 October 2008}}</ref>
[[Communism|Communist]] countries practice [[state atheism]] (See: [[Atheism and communism]]).
[[File:Flag of the PRC.png|thumbnail|200px|left|In 1955, [[China|Chinese]] communist leader Zhou Enlai declared, "We Communists are atheists".<ref>Noebel, David, The Battle for Truth, Harvest House, 2001.</ref> In 2015, the Communist Party of China reaffirmed that members of their party must be atheists.<ref>[httphttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/02/china-communist-party-atheism-zhejiang-ban-religious-members-christianity_n_6599722.html China's Communist Party Bans Believers, Doubles Down On Atheism]</ref>]]
In 1955, [[China|Chinese]] communist leader Zhou Enlai declared, "We Communists are atheists".<ref>Noebel, David, The Battle for Truth, Harvest House, 2001.</ref> In 2014, the Communist Party of China reaffirmed that members of their party must be atheists.<ref>
*[httphttps://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/19567-china-s-communist-party-reaffirms-marxism-maoism-atheism China’s Communist Party Reaffirms Marxism, Maoism, Atheism], ''New American'', 2014*[httphttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/02/china-communist-party-atheism-zhejiang-ban-religious-members-christianity_n_6599722.html China's Communist Party Bans Believers, Doubles Down On Atheism]</ref>
In 2016, the ''International Business Times'' reported:
[[China]] has the largest atheist population in the world.<ref>
*[http://www.thechapmans.nl/news/Atheist.pdf Top 50 Countries With Highest Proportion of Atheists / Agnostics (Zuckerman, 2005)]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/23/a-surprising-map-of-where-the-worlds-atheists-live/ A surprising map of where the world’s atheists live], ''Washington Post'' By Max Fisher and Caitlin Dewey May 23, 2013</ref> In 2014, the Communist Party of China reaffirmed that members of their party must be atheists.<ref>[httphttps://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/19567-china-s-communist-party-reaffirms-marxism-maoism-atheism China’s Communist Party Reaffirms Marxism, Maoism, Atheism], ''New American'', 2014</ref><ref>[httphttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/02/china-communist-party-atheism-zhejiang-ban-religious-members-christianity_n_6599722.html China's Communist Party Bans Believers, Doubles Down On Atheism]</ref>
In [[Communism|communist]] China, there is a degree of religious persecution that occurs and it varies depending on the particular time period, local leaders and the growth of the particular religion (see: [[Atheism and communism#Atheistic communism and repression|Atheistic communism and repression]] and [[Atheistic communism and torture#Atheistic, Chinese communism and torture|Atheistic, Chinese communism and torture]]).
As people age, they are less likely to commit violence. Currently, many countries with significant atheist populations are facing aging populations due to sub-replacement levels of fertility (see: [[Global atheism and aging populations]] and [[Atheism and fertility rates]]).
On the other hand, while China's past one child policy did reduced its fertility rate, it also caused sex selection abortions and now there is a deficit of marriageable women in China. There are concerns that unmarried and angry/frustrated Chinese men will be more aggressive/warlike.<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/angry-young-men-are-making-the-world-less-stable/284364/ Angry Young Men Are Making the World Less Stable], The Atlantic</ref> In recent years, China has been accused of imperialism in the South China sea with its growing naval force.<ref>[httphttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/7/chinas-imperialism-on-the-south-china-sea/ China's imperialism in the South Chinese Sea]</ref>
According to 2012 figures from the National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China, China’s sex ratio at birth (the number of boys born for every 100 girls) was as high as 118, while the sex ratio amongst the total population was about 105.<ref>National Bureau of Statistics of China, Beijing, China</ref> The statistical data from China indicates that the gap between male and female at birth is far larger than the biologically benchmark ratio (a sex ratio at birth of around 105 males per 100 females).<ref>Poston, L. D., & Glover, S. K., Too many males: marriage market implications of gender imbalances in China, 2005</ref>
[[Per capita]] [[atheism|atheists]] and [[agnosticism|agnostics]] in America give significantly less to charity than [[theism|theists]] even when church giving is not counted for theists (See: [[Atheism and charity|Atheism and uncharitableness]]).
Dr. [[William Lane Craig]] points out that the social science research indicates that atheists who have family/social contacts with religious people give more to charity than atheists who do not have such an influence.<ref>[httphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imuaiRO5mSQ&feature=sub Christians Give more to Charity than Atheists] ([[YouTube]] video featuring an audio clip of Dr. [[William Lane Craig]])</ref>
=== Atheist arrogance/anger/quarrelsomeness ===