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@aclark903 incorrect, the most successful countries have always applied secular values, not religious ones. These values have been shared by a greater or lesser extent by any culture that develops a modicum of philosophical or scientific progress, weather it’s pre-crusades Islam, Ancient Greek and Roman, Chinese, or Japanese cultures. Basically you need a level of tolerance and acceptance to allow progress to be made in spite of religious doctrine, so an easing or dogmatic adherence to a set of principles is the commonality, not Christianity. Look at China, they have eased there dogmatic adherence to there variant of communist authoritarianism and are now starting to become a world leader in science and technology. America on the other are going down a rabbit hole of religious fundamentalism which will at some point reduce their scientific output.
The theory of Evolution is an excellent example of a discovery being made in spite of religion, not because of it. It was not a welcome discovery and it created major theological problems. Two hundred years prior and Darwin would likely have been a heretic.
No country in the west follows christian biblical teachings literally as that would take us back to the heretic burning of the pre-enlightenment.
Finally, North Korea is hardly an atheist (and I struggle to understand what an atheist country is if I’m honest, do you mean an authoritarian country with bans on “religions”. Or a country with no state religion?) country, it’s more of a cult of leader worship, where the leaders are effectively treated as gods. They even have a triumvirate like Christianity now.
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