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Old 29-08-2016, 01:20
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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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Old 29-08-2016, 01:26
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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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Old 29-08-2016, 01:32
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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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Old 29-08-2016, 01:54
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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.
Really. So you believe the majority of rapists or pedophiles are of a religious background? Got a source for that?
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Old 29-08-2016, 02:03
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Really. So you believe the majority of rapists or pedophiles are of a religious background? Got a source for that?
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
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Old 29-08-2016, 02:04
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Really. So you believe the majority of rapists or pedophiles are of a religious background? Got a source for that?
I don't know about "majority" I doubt it, though i think a priest would be higher up than a hell of a lot of other professions if you had a look a list of known pedophiles.
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Old 29-08-2016, 02:11
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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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Old 29-08-2016, 02:22
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Exactly y wd atheists commit more crimes ? It's an incoherent idea.
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Old 29-08-2016, 02:35
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Atheists are far more likely to commit crimes than devout Christians.

Source......basic common sense.
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Old 29-08-2016, 02:36
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Atheists are far more likely to commit crimes than devout Christians.

Source......basic common sense.
I'm glad you mentioned your source because for a minute there, I was thinking you were talking utter bollocks.
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Old 29-08-2016, 03:09
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I'm glad you mentioned your source because for a minute there, I was thinking you were talking utter bollocks.
I don't see much of a link between human empathy and blind faith in the completely unproven.
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Old 29-08-2016, 03:16
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I don't see much of a link between human empathy and blind faith in the completely unproven.
Agree.

You got the sarcasm in my post, right?
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Old 29-08-2016, 03:17
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...it might have been more obvious if you'd read my other post here.
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Old 29-08-2016, 07:44
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Exactly y wd atheists commit more crimes ? It's an incoherent idea.
Nope, it's just a wind-up thread from a PBU.
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Old 29-08-2016, 07:57
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Atheists are far more likely to commit crimes than devout Christians.

Source......basic common sense.
Have you read a history book lately? Human behaviour throughout history - when 99% of people had a firm belief in God - was less moral and more violent that it is today. The Romans for example would often leave unwanted babies to starve to death through 'exposure', English Kings often lobed each others heads off in order to gain power or burned people alive for teaching a different religion to their own and we created black slavery in an era when the vast majority of people were so called Christians.

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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Old 29-08-2016, 09:09
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Exactly y wd atheists commit more crimes ? It's an incoherent idea.
It's as coherent idea as you could get actually.
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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Old 29-08-2016, 09:19
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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.
What agenda? And whose agenda? I know you know better, but pretend you don't for a minute.
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Old 29-08-2016, 10:26
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Atheists are far more likely to commit crimes than devout Christians.

Source......basic common sense.
Atheists don't have the "It doesn't matter what I do wrong in my life, all I have to do is say sorry right before I die!" card to play. When we do something wrong we actually feel guilty for it.
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Old 29-08-2016, 10:30
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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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Old 29-08-2016, 10:42
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The vast majority of offenders in the UK tick "no religion" on their equalities monitoring form.
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Old 29-08-2016, 10:44
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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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Old 29-08-2016, 10:49
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The vast majority of offenders in the UK tick "no religion" on their equalities monitoring form.
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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Old 29-08-2016, 10:56
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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
Because when you get to prison pretending you've gone all lovely dovey new leaf Christian goes a way to helping in any appeals or parole, and gets you out of your cell for church related activities.

No source but I have that on good authority from someone who works in a prison.
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Old 29-08-2016, 11:03
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Oh dear it's another anti-theist bash fest.
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Old 29-08-2016, 11:05
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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.
Perhaps because radicals attempt to target the dispossessed and marginalised for radicalisation.
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