Do Christian Parents Abuse their Children?

[John V]

Sure, here's some:

http://www.skepticfiles.org/american/prison.htm

No, an article from a biased source paraphrasing other articles without linking to the source isn't evidence. If a theist presented something similar from religionfiles.org or some such, the atheists here would appropriately reject it.

Let's go to a more neutral source:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are...-atheists/



As you can see, you're partially correct. Atheists are only 1 in 100 Americans (Kind of surprising; thought it was higher), but only 1 in 1000 among American prisoners.

First a question - is prison representation a fair measure of whether a "child is ill equipped to make their own way in the world when they go out on their own"?

If so, then we'd apparently do best if everyone were Pentecostal. The atheist ratio is 10:1, but the Pentecostal is 35:1.

Your argument is against Christians in general. Protestants and Catholics make up most US Christians. Protestants are underrepresented in prison, while Catholics are equally represented. So, while we'd be best off as Pentecostal, Christianity in general isn't churning out felons.

Of course, correlation doesn't prove causation. I doubt that American Indian religions per se turn people into criminals. I'd guess that it has more to do with poverty and perhaps discrimination. Maybe Pentecostals and atheists have more education and wealth than other groups, and that's why they look so good.

Plus, those stats are on religion reported today. We don't know about conversions.

So, you need to do better on evidence.

Or send your kids to a Pentecostal school.