Why are there more religious people in prison per population that atheists?

Question

23. DORE'S ARGUMENT
(1) I forgot to take my meds.
(2) Therefore, I AM CHRIST!!
(3) Therefore, God exists.

than atheists?

Evidence one:
http://atheistempire.com/reference/stats/main.html

Evidence two:

http://www.adherents.com/misc/adh_prison.html

Evidence three:

video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Qb56uFD2I

morganaelf:
Do you understand what I meant by per population????

everyone is religious blah blah blah....ok, sorry I thought you would be smart enough to figure out what I mean.

more GOD GOD GOD GOD Luvin people. Does this help????

Answer 1

Atheism is promoted by education system. Educated people are less likely to go to jail.(more economic opportunies) Easy one

Answer 2

That's silly. There are more religious people in prison then atheists (and I'm trusting your stats for the sake of argument) for the same reason there is no such thing as an atheists in a foxhole. When the mortars start falling......people start believing. In situtations where it is life or death people will bet on the life after death option (more often then not). This is Pascal's wage.

Answer 3

Atheists don't rant & rave about the subject the way the "religious"
do, in or out of prison.
Being "religious" often allows a person to hold self-agrandizing notions,
which in turn enable the impulse to do wrong,
then ask "the Lord" to forgive them later.
Atheists know what's done is done...

Answer 4

the techniques would properly be interpreted in distinctive techniques. - Christians commit greater crimes by using fact the morality they sell is against the secular standards, and subsequently Christians commit greater crime and for this reason feed the reformatory equipment. yet their ideology would not help this premise, so it particularly is an exceedingly vulnerable argument. - Christians sell their ethical perspectives on the pollbox. for this reason, aspects the place many Christians stay tend to have stricter regulation or enforcement of regulation, whether the habit of the inhabitants isn't any worse than aspects that are lax in assessment. for this reason greater of the inhabitants is snatched up and placed into the reformatory equipment. i think of it particularly is a greater suitable argument. i think of if Christians embraced the anti-legalism preached by using their handbook, Christ, then they could be greater favorable to libertarian political positions, allowing human beings to exercising their unfastened will in nonviolent habit and working it with faith, wish, and love. Then the point of prisons could be to shelter society from violent persons as a substitute of securing society from nonviolent yet distasteful behaviors consisting of intake of marijuana.

Answer 5

How are the percentages? Atheists are such a minority that there probably would not be that many in prison as opposed to the number of religious.

Answer 6

First - I would point out all people are religious. The question is to whom - themself, pleasure, power, God.
Second - documentation in such questions is helpful in our learning.
Third - should this be the case, then I would understand the need for hope and forgiveness would lead more people to Christianity in prison. Your citation indicates in prison, not convicted and sent to prison.

Answer 7

A questionable claim you make.
State the source of this claim you did not.
That prisoners claim religion to impress the judge or parole board likely enough may be.

Answer 8

A recent poll on torture was taken and it was discovered that atheist actually have a highter sense of morality then christians.
Just because you believe in god does not make one a better person.

Answer 9

Hopefully people want to turnover a new leaf and they have found a positive answer to their lives.

Answer 10

Because prison is as close to Hell as you can get. It's a wake up call.