RE: Atheists are Intolerant
May 7, 2012 at 4:11 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2012 at 4:59 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(May 6, 2012 at 10:15 am)Abishalom Wrote: Yeah I see where you're coming from. It's like when the atheist claims that atheists are less like to commit a crime. Well when you compare their proportion to the society they live in, one would expect that number to be lower...wouldn't we?
Yes, we would. We would expect it to be only 2 or 3% actually, because that's roughly the percentage of the US population people who identify as atheist make up. And when we look at the available relevant prison statistics, we see that atheists make up about 0.2% of the prison population, about a tenth of the representation you would expect if they committed crimes at a similar rate to Christians and Muslims.
I suspect that percentage will go up as the percentage of atheists in society rises, currently we're a small group that tends to select for education and affluence. It won't always be that way, some day your average idjit will be an atheist.
(May 6, 2012 at 12:59 pm)Abishalom Wrote: Yeah and I not surprised that you brought up the Catholic church even though I'M NOT CATHOLIC! You do know that there were other branches of Christianity right?
How many of us do you suppose are communists? You do know that not all atheists are communists, right?
(May 7, 2012 at 3:56 pm)Abishalom Wrote: Pregnancies can be dangerous sometimes. But you've got to be freakin kidding me...
Number one cause of death for women for most of human history. If the Bible had commanded women not to marry until they were in their twenties, when their bodies were more likely to be able to survive the rigor of childbirth, untold millions would have lived longer lives.
