Atheists are Intolerant

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Oh no I wasn't saying that. I was essentially suggesting that your argument of expectations of said event occurring due to said group's proportion distribution in society could go both ways. Perhaps I should have worded it better. I was saying that atheist will claim that atheists are less likely to commit a crime. But if you examine their proportion in related to the societies they live in that is what we should expect. Is that more clear?

Yes, that's more clear, I understand. Yes, if atheists make up 5% of society X and someone says "it's less likely in society X for a crime to be committed by an atheist", while technically being correctly, it could simply be that atheists are less responsible for crime because there are less of them. I agree it goes both ways.

Perhaps people who suggest atheists are less likely to commit a crime are taking those proportions into account? Perhaps they're calculating the likelihood of percentages within groups - for example, 20% of atheists have committed a crime, while for the general population it's 30%. This way everything would be kept proportional. Again, I have no idea whether that's true or not that atheists are less (or more) likely to commit a crime - and even if they were there's other factors to take into consideration.