Sue Blackmore asks:

Are we better off without religion?

Executive summary: YES!

Study after study reveal a startling correlation between godlessness & goodness in western democracies.
Correlations that are so strong, and dependent only only the religion factor that they quite simply are the giant elephant in the room.

But Sue is merely querying the direction of causation, and is calling for more research on the causal effects, but apparently substantially based on the frequency of typos in the original paper.

OK, as it goes, but what is the point? Maybe you can tell me what the point of determining this is?

Here is her article in the Guardian…