RE: Personal relationships with deities
December 29, 2015 at 5:03 pm
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2015 at 5:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 29, 2015 at 9:16 am)popsthebuilder Wrote:(December 29, 2015 at 5:45 am)Rhythm Wrote: If religion were effective, a puzzling mystery presents itself. The believing demographic is grossly over-represented in our prison system even -after- the assumed beneficial effect of religion(and however many people that keeps -out- of prison).That's ridiculous.
..............What is going on with that demographic to have so many fucked up people?
The ratio of believers to non believers is most likely similar in jail and out.
Faith in selfless Unity for Good.
Not even close. A paltry .07% of inmates in our system were atheists as of 2013. Perhaps you could answer that one?
@Mia, you might like to think of it as an "intangible force of nature" but it clearly isn't...since it's a non-natural force. Magic. Many christians tell us that their beliefs keep them doing the right thing..and that even if their beliefs were not accurate it would still be good to believe for that reason, if no other. Those things you think about, those questions you asked above, have decidedly less magical and better demonstrated answers than "karma".
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