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Turns out the less time people spend in church, the more likely they are to support equal rights for their neighbors. Across nearly every religious group, more church means less support for same-sex marriage. Seems pretty clear: less church is better for society.

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Churches are pretty much always "us versus them" institutions. Otherwise people could just read their religious books at home (but most don't want to do that and priests, in particular, don't want the parishioners to read it). Churches are about money and power, and in most cases+

Over the course of history, the Catholic Church has been the deadliest, most overtly “bad” religion - in terms of harming people and society as a whole. But in this particular case, based on the data in this chart, catholics look “better” than all the other listed religions. I find that a little odd