Imagine meeting that oh so dreamy rock star and peace activist, John Lennon, only to have him punch you into oblivion—that’s soooo hot!!!
This is merely one of various characteristics that Lennon shares with his fellow Atheists. Although, this was a younger Lennon, as he stated during a 1980 AD interview with Playboy filth-zine:
It is a diary form of writing. All that “I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved” was me. I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically – any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn’t express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women.
That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything’s the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster.
On the other hand, in his biography The Lives of John Lennon, Albert Goldman claims that Lennon was guilty of spousal abuse; so that may explain Yoko Ono’s primal screams.
Conservapedia has put together some interesting, and disturbing, data on their page Irreligion and domestic violence. For example, they note that “Sweden is one of the most atheistic country in the world…in 2005 46 – 85% of Swedes were agnostics/atheists/non-believers in God. Sweden also has the 3rd highest rate of belief in evolution as far as Western World nations.”
Well, this is hilarious as just a few years ago, the Swedish Humanist Association wasted good money on bus ads promoting Atheism since, apparently, 46-85% is not enough Atheists! (see here).
Well, in March of 2014 AD, The Local, a Swedish news website, published an article entitled “Sweden Stands Out In Domestic Violence Study” that noted:
A new EU review of violence against women has revealed that one in three European women has been assaulted, and one in twenty has been raped, with the Scandinavian countries at the top of the league tables. In the Scandinavian countries, in contrast, around half of the women reported physical or sexual violence, which researchers at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights said could have several explanations…
In Sweden, 81 percent of women said they had been harassed at some point after the age of 15 – compared to the EU average of 55 percent. After Sweden, which had the highest rate, Denmark, France, the Netherland and Finland all saw rates above 70 percent. The EU member state with the lowest rate – 24 percent – was Bulgaria.
Here is an abstract for a 2007 AD article from the journal Violence Against Women that is titled “Race/Ethnicity, Religious Involvement, and Domestic Violence”:
The authors explored the relationship between religious involvement and intimate partner violence by analyzing data from the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households. They found that: (a) religious involvement is correlated with reduced levels of domestic violence; (b) levels of domestic violence vary by race/ethnicity; (c) the effects of religious involvement on domestic violence vary by race/ethnicity; and
(d) religious involvement, specifically church attendance, protects against domestic violence, and this protective effect is stronger for African American men and women and for Hispanic men, groups that, for a variety of reasons, experience elevated risk for this type of violence.
The same journal’s article “Race/Ethnicity, Religious Involvement, and Domestic Violence” noted the following:
Another line of thought suggests that religious people may be less likely to perpetrate domestic violence (Fergusson, Horwood, Kershaw, & Shannon, 1986). A 1999 study of U.S. couples found that both men and women who attend religious services regularly are less likely to commit acts of domestic violence than those who attend rarely or not at all (Ellison et al., 1999). A follow-up study identified three pathways through which religious involvement may operate; namely, increasing levels of social integration and social support, reducing the likelihood of alcohol or substance abuse, and decreasing the risk of psychological problems (Ellison & Anderson, 2001). However, even after considering such indirect effects of religion through the use of statistical controls, that study found that regular religious involvement still had a protective effect against the perpetration of domestic violence by both men and women (Ellison & Anderson, 2001).
In addition, that study showed that evidence of such protective religious effects persisted regardless of whether domestic violence was measured using data from self reports or partner reports, which makes it difficult to attribute these observed religious effects to simple social desirability or other response bias.
This, and much, much more, falls right in line with our previously published gathered date under the title Are Atheists Healthy, Happy, Moral, etc.? Indeed, the troubling results are that Atheists and Agnostics are the least sociable, charitable, moral, etc. amongst us.
Other relevant articles are:
Why do Atheist countries lead the production of child pornography?
Atheist victimizes rape victim
Kavorkatheism: “elevatorgate” and our only purpose for existing
As well as an entire web-section on Atheism and rape.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Resources:
“Sweden stands out in domestic violence study,” The Local, March 5, 2014 AD
“Top 50 Countries With Highest Proportion of Atheists / Agnostics,” Adherents, citing Zuckerman, 2005 AD
“Race/Ethnicity, Religious Involvement, and Domestic Violence,” Violence Against Women, November 2007 vol. 13 no. 11 1094-1112, DOI: 10.1177/1077801207308259
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