Is Belief in God Hurting America?

"According to a new study, prosperity is highest in countries that practice religion the least.
From Dostoyevsky to right-wing commentator Ann Coulter we are warned of the perils of godlessness. "If there is no God," Dostoyevsky wrote, "everything is permitted." Coulter routinely attributes our nation's most intractable troubles to the moral vacuum of atheism."