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> Roy Schestowitz stated in post 7713598.LbZizSxrag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 7/5/11
> 9:54 PM:
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>>> Roy Schestowitz stated in post 2763513.68216eyJUe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 7/5/11
>>> 1:05 AM:
>>>
>>>>>>> To those Southerners, all the things the government was doing were just
>>>>>>> a pretext for eradicating their entire culture, most of which they
>>>>>>> considered to be entirely benign.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> To this date, in YouTube, I occasionally see religious people who justify
>>>>>> slavery using the Holy Book. That helps morality in no way.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I would love to see Homer's evidence that religion tends to lead to
>>>>> greater
>>>>> morality. I have not seen such before.
>>>>>
>>>> The Creationists would have presented such evidence if it existed. Go to a
>>>> US
>>>> prison (about 2 million prisoners in this theistic country, or 40% of the
>>>> world's prison population, IIRC) and do a survey to see how many reject the
>>>> existence of a sky daddy.
>>>
>>> Atheists have a far, far less chance of even going to jail... according to
>>> one study about 1/100th the chance.
>>
>> So that's {1/100}/100 (US jail population) =~ 1/10,000.
>
> No, that is 1:100.
I thought you mean that the chance of atheists "going to jail... according to
one study [is] about 1/100th the chance" of theists going to jail.
>>> I noted this to Homer. He had no reply.
>>
>> I bet that financial crime is likely to be the only offence among them. They
>> have different prison conditions.
>
> Not sure I follow.
Not all crimes are equal. The biggest crimes are actually ones that hurt loads of people
and the criminals who commit them mostly live well and invest in Wall Street, run hedge
funds, etc.
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