(05-28-2012, 05:44 PM)IDmad link Wrote: Those statistics are over 15 years old and u can't reflect them to the present day. Even on that link it says u can't link religion to suicides since there's so many other variables that affect person's mental health and suicide risk (social factors, climate etc). Like Maddolis said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
For example on #4th place there's Kazakhstan where 70% of the population is muslim.
On the 1st place is Lithuania which has 80% Roman-Catholic population.
Most of the muslim countries seem to have a bit under the average suicide rates but nothing drastic. Like I said religion doesn't prove anything on this part.

Since Quran stricly forbits suicide it may also lower the amount of muslim suicides and in some cases a person's suicide might be denied or covered so that the family and the person won't be put into shame. That way the statistics become twisted and flawed since all the suicides aren't reported.

I'm atheist myself but I couldn't give a shit about what everyone believes in as long as they keep it to themselves. Only the fundamentalist believers from each religion should be sent to a one big deserted island and they could fight there who's religion is the best.
The reason why I don't believe in anything is because after u read those holy books u realise what it would take to live like they expect u to. It's insane and totally unrealistic. Maybe 1000-2000 years ago it could've worked to some degree but not today nor in the future.

I'm not gonna argue about anyone's religion since it's a never ending fight where u can argue as much as u can/want but it eventually takes u nowhere. A total waste of time.

(06-14-2012, 07:30 PM)STyL4 link Wrote: I'll not even get into this like last time when it was more than fun for more but ... If you really believe something is a complete bullshit or doesn't exist then just don't bother wasting your time to disprove that, in your belief that's like fighting for the existance of nothing which gets you nowhere. 

(06-15-2012, 07:25 AM)Maddolis link Wrote: It needs to be done when the "complete bullshit" is pushed as truth in the sectors of education and politics and impedes our progress as a species.