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December 14, 2009

Atheism increases trust

In modern, industrialised societies, we put an awful lot of trust in strangers. That's good, because if we couldn't trust strangers then most of our economic and social transactions would struggle. In fact, trust is a cornerstone of economic growth.It's hardly surprising, then, that nations with high levels of trust are also the wealthiest. They also often have a high number of atheists - Sweden

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