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Japanese are in large Atheist/polytheist, so why is it that it has less crime than the christian countries?
Japan is one of the safest countries in the world & they are pagans, so why is it that it has more peace than christian countries?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Japan
More peace? It depends what one means.
For me there are two kinds of peace, the inner and the outer (with others).
Japan has one of the world’s highest suicide rates. This should tell you something about their inner peace…
As for the wikipedia article you provided, it’s based on a survey done in 2004. We’re in 2010 now.
Are you relating crime to religion?
The thing about Japan is the shame or what is called guilt culture.
This is what keeps crime low: the traditional emphasis on the individual as a member of groups to which he or she must not bring shame. Within these groups (family, friends, and associates at work or school), a Japanese citizen has social rights and obligations, may derive emotional support, and meets powerful expectations to conform. These informal social sanctions display potency despite competing values in a changing society.
The low crime in Japan is only due to this culture, and NOT to religion.
As for what you called “Christian countries”, crime is due to many reasons where religion plays a microscopic role. Society, discrimination, racism, corruption, poverty, new laws that encourage dissolution of values, TV and medias, and the list is long…
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