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Why aren't more atheists committing crimes?
You would think with the lack of moral fibres that God teaches, they would be responsible for more crimes. However, all you hear about is "Muslim rapes young woman" "paster touched young boys" You almost never hear "Atheist robs bank" "Atheist stabs Yorkshire man" etc..
If I didn't know better, I'd say there was an agenda. |
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Along the same lines, you would think that more atheists would die of life threatening illnesses such as cancer and life threatening injuries caused from car crashes and accidents. The sort of scenarios where I know that Christians pray for their loved ones to be saved and ask their church congregations to pray for. If prayer is that powerful and there is a benevolent God that listens to these prayers you would think there would be noticeable statistical blip in the recovery rates for the loved ones of believers.
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Because religion is something the impoverished use to feel better about their lives. Most of the more affluent areas of the world are the least religious.
Kind of proves prayer is bullshit and enlightenment actually means knocking the invisible man on the head. |
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You would think with the lack of moral fibres that God teaches, they would be responsible for more crimes. However, all you hear about is "Muslim rapes young woman" "paster touched young boys" You almost never hear "Atheist robs bank" "Atheist stabs Yorkshire man" etc..
If I didn't know better, I'd say there was an agenda. |
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Really. So you believe the majority of rapists or pedophiles are of a religious background? Got a source for that?
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-an...ent-its-prison |
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Really. So you believe the majority of rapists or pedophiles are of a religious background? Got a source for that?
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There's probably no difference than ever before it's just that religion has never been focused much before
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Exactly y wd atheists commit more crimes ? It's an incoherent idea.
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Atheists are far more likely to commit crimes than devout Christians.
Source......basic common sense. |
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Atheists are far more likely to commit crimes than devout Christians.
Source......basic common sense. |
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I'm glad you mentioned your source because for a minute there, I was thinking you were talking utter bollocks.
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I don't see much of a link between human empathy and blind faith in the completely unproven.
You got the sarcasm in my post, right?
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...it might have been more obvious if you'd read my other post here.
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Exactly y wd atheists commit more crimes ? It's an incoherent idea.
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Atheists are far more likely to commit crimes than devout Christians.
Source......basic common sense. In the west today, life is safer, farer and more moral than it's ever been, which shows what a success modern secular countries are. Yes we still have problems with alcohol and crime amongst certain groups in society but that's always been the case. As a woman, my life is better than ever in modern secular Britain. Only extreme Islam compares to the bad behaviour of our Christian ancestors. |
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Exactly y wd atheists commit more crimes ? It's an incoherent idea.
There should be a massive difference in the criminality of religious people and atheists and there isn't. In fact most studies into this suggest the religious are slightly more criminally minded. It's impressive that most religious people can ignore this. (well not really, cognitive dissonance is extra strong in the religious) |
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You would think with the lack of moral fibres that God teaches, they would be responsible for more crimes. However, all you hear about is "Muslim rapes young woman" "paster touched young boys" You almost never hear "Atheist robs bank" "Atheist stabs Yorkshire man" etc..
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Atheists are far more likely to commit crimes than devout Christians.
Source......basic common sense. |
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So atheists are prone to commit more crimes because they "lack moral fibre" and think they can do what they like?
Forgive me, but I don't think that's how it works, |
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The vast majority of offenders in the UK tick "no religion" on their equalities monitoring form.
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Let's not forget in America a lot of criminals, "find Jesus" because they think that it would help their parole hearing.
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The vast majority of offenders in the UK tick "no religion" on their equalities monitoring form.
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US figures are interesting - a whopping 0.07% of the prison population are atheists but non-believers make up 85% of scientists (the filthy heathen scum).
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-an...ent-its-prison No source but I have that on good authority from someone who works in a prison. |
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Oh dear it's another anti-theist bash fest.
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Muslims are apparently the fastest growing inmates group in prisons and apparently they have their religious needs tended to - despite the fact that their belief in Allah apparently didn't stop them from committing crime in the first place.. It's quite clear that human nature will overpower religious belief every time.
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