What Good Is Christianity?

I just ran across a fas­ci­nat­ing com­pil­i­a­tion of the pos­i­tive influ­ence of reli­gion (and Chris­tian­i­ty in par­tic­u­lar) on soci­ety: Good Faith.

The author gives extreme­ly spe­cif­ic exam­ples of how faith helps with issues such as sub­stance abuse, mar­riage, par­ent­ing, altru­ism, sex, crime rates, health, hap­pi­ness, and free­dom.

It’s an impres­sive list.

So the next time a class­mate (or pro­fes­sor) begins talk­ing about all the evils that reli­gion is respon­si­ble for, be sure to men­tion all the good that reli­gion is respon­si­ble for as well.