everyone (else) seems to be hating on atheists

[Epimethean]

LOL! Aside from having zero data to back up your initial claim, you probably have no clue about the logical fallacies you committed in even this one small piece of the turd you just laid.

Did you forget to read the thread, Epimethean? I will recap for you.

See: http://atheistforums.org/thread-13016-po...#pid291292
in response to your first link (second quotebox from the bottom) and

http://atheistforums.org/thread-13016-po...#pid290638
in response to the second link (second quotebox from the bottom again, my reply to Annik). You may also want to read around there where we actually look at real government stats which do show that irreligious are overrepresented in prison (though as Mister Agenda points out, some atheists do have a religion, and some theists have none).

Needless to say both your links are nonsense, as you already know if you took the time to investigate these claims yourself and look up reputable sources instead of barely sourced email forwards from "skeptictank" and "holysmoke" (Geez.... ).

The second post I link also includes actual scientific journal articles about the association between irreligion and aggression, impulsivity, etc. Of course that does not apply to religious atheists (who make up a small but significant minority) and does apply to irreligious theists.

Earlier, I linked the study which associated irreligion with psychoticism (lower values of both agreeableness/empathy and conscientiousness) but I'll link it again here since I don't want to dig that far:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...6900002336

So yes, I have an abundance of data to back up my own statements.

Did you think we would take an article written by a Catholic at a Catholic university as legitimate when it comes to classifications? You are more foolish than even I thought if you do. That article is rubbish. An interesting detail about that university:

"After Flemish claims of discrimination at the Catholic University of Leuven, the decision was made to split the institution into the Dutch language Katholieke Universiteit Leuven which remained in Leuven, and the Université Catholique de Louvain."

Also,

"The College was founded in 1857 by the bishops of the United States, under the leadership of Bishop Martin J. Spalding of Louisville and Bishop Peter Paul Lefevere of Detroit. Its founding purpose was twofold: to train young European men to serve as missionary priests in North America and to give American seminarians the opportunity to study at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Co...Conception