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We're going to have to lie about it. (Original Post)
cleanhippie
Sep 2014
OP
"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil...
alterfurz
Sep 2014
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rock
(13,218 posts)1. File under
News for the Religious.
rug
(82,333 posts)2. Oh, good, a morning cartoon.
alterfurz
(2,474 posts)3. "With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil...
...but for good people to do evil -- that takes religion." -- Steven Weinberg
MisterP
(23,730 posts)5. "boycotting Israel indicated a moral blindness for which it is hard to find any explanation other
than antisemitism" -- Steven Weinberg
alterfurz
(2,474 posts)7. Fuck every cause...
...that ends in murder and children crying. -- Iain Banks
MisterP
(23,730 posts)9. hahahaha, did Roberto D'Aubuisson make that image macro?
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)4. HA!
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)6. 75% of prisoners are Christian
and less than 1 of 1000 are atheist.
rug
(82,333 posts)8. Most Arabs speak Arabic.
Statistics!
edhopper
(33,606 posts)10. But the statistics Erik posted
do not correlate with the general population. Especially the .001% atheists.
There is a chance of significance there, though more research would be needed.
Your stats are meaningless.
rug
(82,333 posts)11. So is that unsourced one.
An analysis of the actual statistic would likely reveal the set being examined is a self-selected set with demographic privileges not found in the general prison population.
edhopper
(33,606 posts)12. If that's the case yes
Still more apt than your flimsy reply.
rug
(82,333 posts)13. The reply suited the post.