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> Countries with strong secular foundations regularly top global indexes of well-being, prosperity, and social progress.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-...

Only 1 of the top 5 countries in this list have neither blasphemy laws or a state church. 2 of them have both.

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If your point is that they're doing good because they still pay some ceremonial tribute to their religious past, or that they're doing good because they had a strong religious foundation at some point, how do you square that with the correlation between these countries doing better and the decrease in the influence of religion?

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