In a recent Washington Post column Max Boot hoped America one day would have an "unapologetic atheist" president. After all, religious people are often hypocrites, evils are committed under religion's cover, and morality can endure without God.
Boot wrote, "Most of China's 1.4 billion people have no religious affiliation, and fewer than 7 percent are monotheists. Is there any reason to believe that China is a less moral place than the United States, where 70.6 percent profess to be Christians? Or that Europeans act worse than Americans because only 27 percent of them believe in the God described in the Bible, compared with 56 percent of Americans? In fact, by many measures, such as crime rates and social welfare, Europe is actually a more moral place."
As to whether China is less moral than America, maybe the hundreds of thousands of interned Muslims in western China undergoing religious deprogramming might answer that question differently than Boot. Christians whose churches have been smashed would also have interesting answers, as would thousands of political prisoners. So too would millions of Chinese women forced to have abortions under the One Child policy.
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