I don't know that with the way my parents raised me that even if I had been an atheist that I wouldn't have done stupid shit. I think what young kids and teens do that are stupid are more a product of contested relationships with the parents, peer pressure and or abuse and or bullying.
But the hypocrisy certainly is there when parents talk about how good god is and their kid still fucks up. You can be good and religious, but what the religious don't understand is that religion is not required to be good, nor does it prevent you from doing bad.
Evolution will always produce a ratio of good behavior and bad behavior. If you go to every country in the world and it's prisions, those prisions will be full of a minority of people who commit crime, BUT will also have a population that reflects ratio wise the same majority in which they live.
Texas prisons are full of a majority of Christians, not because all Christians will commit crimes, but because that is the culture those prisoners come from. Just like if you went to a Mexican prison the majority of the prisoners will be Mexican. Same with Turkey. Go to one of their prisons and survey their inmates and they would be a majority Muslim.
The point being that labels will never make an individual automatically good or bad, and we have always been the same species long before our modern myths, long before our current boarders. That is the part people of all religions don't want to face.
But the hypocrisy certainly is there when parents talk about how good god is and their kid still fucks up. You can be good and religious, but what the religious don't understand is that religion is not required to be good, nor does it prevent you from doing bad.
Evolution will always produce a ratio of good behavior and bad behavior. If you go to every country in the world and it's prisions, those prisions will be full of a minority of people who commit crime, BUT will also have a population that reflects ratio wise the same majority in which they live.
Texas prisons are full of a majority of Christians, not because all Christians will commit crimes, but because that is the culture those prisoners come from. Just like if you went to a Mexican prison the majority of the prisoners will be Mexican. Same with Turkey. Go to one of their prisons and survey their inmates and they would be a majority Muslim.
The point being that labels will never make an individual automatically good or bad, and we have always been the same species long before our modern myths, long before our current boarders. That is the part people of all religions don't want to face.
