I certainly dont want this to be a national contest to see who can piss the furthest, and I embrace every culture of the world(as a matter of fact I would like to move to Australia or Africa permanently), HOWEVER, I think if you take all the factors, all the data, the overall picture is that America is One of the most priviledged countries if not THE most priveledged country in the world. Once again, this is NOT a question of who has the best nation...that is foolishness, but if you take all the factors like:

1)Culture-America sets the standard in terms of music, movies, fashion and most other forms of cultural pop culture.

2)Opportunity-America offers anyone the chance to live the American dream as long as they work hard.

3)Freedom of religion, freedom of speech-Americans can worship anywhere they like and they can say anything they like.

4)Military might- America is one of the strongest nations on earth

5)Technology-Microsoft windows, the automobile(which we invented), we even have the most sophisticated game engines,space race

6)Democracy-The United States constitution is the oldest constitution on earth, and our system is a working example of a just republic.

7)Natural resources-Though America is not a great industrial producer, we still grow a lot of corn and wheat, our land is very fertile.

8)Abundance of land area-America is huge and there is plenty of land for everyone.



I am not saying we are perfect or the best, but we indeed ARE most certainly one of the most privelieged nations on earth.

I dont think you also took things like population density into consideration with your crime statistics, and furthermore crime is not caused by evangelicals, it is caused by sinners, so it seems to reinforce my point instead of contradict it.

But all this misses the original point anyway, you have failed to take into consideration the anti-thesis of "priviledge and prosperity", that is "destruction and degradation". The original argument by Marco was that God could somehow stop natural disaster, I made the point that natural disaster seems to strike areas which have a heavy heathen influence, a point that is still undisputed.