A little thought experiment (see details)...?

Good one, but the answer would be No. Let me explain. Your main assumption in the experiment (let's just call it that...) is that God created human mind and consciousness. Your next assumption is though, that if God did, those nations that are most religious therefore should be most influential. This would be the case if God had created human consciousness in a way that it could not but act according to religious beliefs. Therein lies the problem...

Humans have free will. We can choose. (We could talk about whether that is true or not, and I am more than happy to, but for now let me just state the obvious...) So if God created our minds (in other words, if we are substances and our mind is an essence of our species), then we were still created with free will... And as such, we can turn from God and religion and become very, very influential even though we are not religious.

If you look at it a little deeper you will find that the most influential nations of the world are the most religious. 9/11 was brought on by religion. World War II was brought on by religion. There is a connection between religion and social parties in other countries. We try to keep that separate in the U.S. However, I would like to caution you that just because someone is religious doesn't make them "righteous" or "good". Religion takes a lot of different forms.

If god created mind and consciousness, dont make the assumption that it is for worship. If we were made to worship god and take the sabbath off, etc., we wouldn't need sustenance because we would be in a permanent state of bliss in an immaterial world which is absurd. We live in a material world which cannot have been created by an immaterial force or entity, because something immaterial does not in fact exist. An immaterial force: the concept is contradictory and backwards.

Think it is the blind belief factor which causes the problem, open mind searching belief is quite often possitive, a lot of ground breaking science developed in such climes!

The problem of blind belief seems to be cause of economic decay and social decline!

If one looks at the fever pitch of Fundamentalism in the last few years and compare it with the the economy and social system, you can clearly see a correlation!

Blind belief brings in dark times!

Not necessarily, God has nothing to do with religion. Religion is totally human creation. God created everybody the same, if He wanted to create religion, it would have been 1 religion. As there are so many religions, and every faith vying for the number 1 spot says something don't you think

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God gave us the freedom of choice, thus we can believe in whatever we want. Satan has dominion over this world because Adam geve it up to him. God has let him have control of all those that chose not to follow Him because of sin. Satan wants us all to not believe in God so not believing in any religion works for him. that is why most political leaders are not religious or do not fully use the Bible as a guide.

This is not a thought experiment - just an observation of the facts.

Uneducated, poor countries tend to be the most religious/superstitious - which tells you something about the validity of religion (it's mickey-mouse mate).

Nope. You are not basing your conclusion on anything sound. That may be a somewhat valid argument, but that's about it. There should be a connection, but many claiming to be religious really have no idea what they believe, and those who have found the truth don't force their beliefs on anybody else.

I don't think politics particularly concern God. Man usually messes that up enough without His help.