The under represented Atheist prison population claim.

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It doesnt surprise me at all that that's the case with the "views" of people inside the prison system- if the stats are true. People who're religious are more likely to have the same level of intelligence of a man who'd commit a crime and have the stupidity to get caught and locked up for it.. LOL .. BUT prison isn't really a truthful comment on its society, or maybe it is in fact, but if you would perceive it as a more hopeless cage as apposed to the reservation metaphor of our society i.e we have relative freedom, but within strict boundries.

Prison is a very hopeless place for the most part, it's not the case anymore that you can get locked up for stealing car and while you're inside you learn about credit card fraud- like we used to see in movies, or how the russian mafia referred to prisons as colleges- and it's the on going product of institutionalisation. Today in the UK specifically the inmates of a prison are a collective of hopeless and desperate people who're likely to turn to anything for a glimmer of redemption, whether because they feel it genuinely or simply because it looks better to a parole board.

But of course, with statistics for nations, going back to the point about people with mild belief in "something" being taken by the censors as a religious orientation; whether they believe in the bible, torah or the ideals of buddism or they've just made up some idea about god over a glass of beer. It really is the case that, like Malcolm X said, if you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything (and repeated to my dismay by George Bush), and if people don't make it plain who they are and what they believe they'll just get buried under the statistics.