sample : "of those executed for murder 65% were
Catholics, 26% Protestants, 6% Hebrew, 2% Pagan, and less than 1/3 of 1%
non-religious."
"The New Criminology," Max D. Schlapp and Edward E. Smith
2006-10-20 11:10:56 · 22 answers · asked by Cindy 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh, c'mon.
This one is easy.
Every inmate "gets religion" in prison. It looks good for parole and early release. Doesn't mean anything. Their actions show what most really are....and it's not "religious."
2006-10-20 11:23:15 · answer #1 · answered by Robert 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it would desire to be that the information for unfastened and prisoned are attained in any different case. How did they get those information? Atheists symbolize 10% of the inhabitants. exchange into this from census effects? if so, it would be as precise stat as you will possibly be able to desire to get, by way of fact no-one is there judging. Atheists symbolize a million% of penal complex inhabitants. whilst a prisoner is admitted to penal complex, how do they arrive across his religious theory? that is not from the census considering that innovations is nameless. So right we've a situation reaching a similar consequence, by way of fact the tactic of achieving it incredibly is diverse? might desire to or no longer that is that they ask what faith have been you christened or an identical question? it incredibly is my theory that it is an faulty statistic except you could coach that a similar techniques are utilized in popular inhabitants and penal complex inhabitants.
2016-10-15 06:00:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok now take the number of theists and atheists, see the difference in numbers?
World Population Percentages by Religious Group
religious 86%, non-religious and anti-religious 14%.
2006-10-20 11:28:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A couple of possible reasons:
1) Atheists commit fewer crimes, therefore they go to prison less often.
2) Atheists commit as many crimes but they're smart enough to get caught less often.
3) A bit of 1 and 2.
You gotta wonder: if god is the source of morality, then why are his followers filling up the prisons....
2006-10-20 11:18:36 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why so many Catholics, they can't all be abused altered boys? I wonder what the reason for that is? There are not enough in the population to be so well represented in prison. I think it might be a problem in the basic belief system.
2006-10-20 11:16:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
And have you noticed that condemned murderers who were convicted of the most heinous of crimes are always on the news talking about their appeals wearing ball caps with scripture references on them.
People convert in prison because they know that there won't be throngs of people outside begging for the life of a non-believer to be spared.
2006-10-20 11:18:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It just goes to show that there are more Christians in this nation than there are pagans/non-religions. Hence, the reason America is so bless.
2006-10-20 11:30:39 · answer #7 · answered by charmaine f 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i had to go and look this up cuz i knew the population of atheists in america was low so thats Y. here ya go:
only 902,000 (0.4%) positively claim to be atheist, with another 991,000 (0.5%) professing agnosticism.
-2001 poll for atheists in N America.
2006-10-20 11:53:23 · answer #8 · answered by Nikki 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You gave some good numbers to prove your point.
maybe atheists are not all hung up about the stress of religious beliefs and punishments. Atheists, well at least the ones I know, follow ethics.
2006-10-20 11:15:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your religious belief have nothing to do with the type of person you actually are.
Look at the preists that molest.
People hide behind their religions.
2006-10-20 11:16:06 · answer #10 · answered by Simply Lovely 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋