Much smaller than the percent of atheists in the general population.
-
Lowtax-86 — 9 years ago(December 30, 2016 09:06 PM)
I think part of the reasoning behind that is because atheists don't believe in an afterlife, so they don't want spend the few years they have on this planet rotting in prison, where as the theist perspective just see this as a temporary realm, so the threat of jail isn't quite as severe.
You're standing on my neck -
AJ_June_forever — 9 years ago(December 30, 2016 09:25 PM)
The important points to consider are:
What kind of economic background atheists have and what kind of social and economic backgrounds theists have. Which countries figures you have quoted and which agency provided the data.You reach, I teach
James Harden -
senseibushido — 9 years ago(December 30, 2016 10:16 PM)
I don't really like this argument.
If there's one thing religion is good at, it's being a coping mechanism. And if there's one thing that would require a lot of coping, it's having your freedom taken away.
Do the polls that people reference when they say stuff like this take into account the likelihood of someone in prison identifying as the predominant religion just to avoid the extra hassle and pressure their fellow inmates might place on them if they out themselves as an "other?"
And given how mistrusted atheists are, it wouldn't surprise me to learn if people who were generally non-religious take up the practice in prison so that they can look like good, upstanding, rehabilitated citizens. -
CashIsSupreme — 9 years ago(December 31, 2016 05:13 AM)
You'll continue to pretend to be completely oblivious as to how your post disproves most of your racist, alt-right bullsh!t.
Hunters have a perverted gun fetish, so sayeth a terrorist supporting kiddie-fiddler.
-
graham-167 — 9 years ago(December 31, 2016 07:26 AM)
But is that actually because atheists commit less crime? Or might there be other factors?
For example, "I am an atheist" does not sound good to parole boards. Whereas "I've found god and given my life over the jesus" does.
Perhaps that could explain the numbers just as well?
If I could stop a rapist from raping a child I would. That's the difference between me and god. -
micCee — 9 years ago(December 31, 2016 07:36 AM)
Atheism doesn't play well with fellow inmates (who will be mostly Christians, even if drawn from a cross section of the population), and as graham mentioned, people can use religion to try and manipulate the parole board into clemency.
So the figures probably aren't quite as good as the ones published; but atheism is known to correlate with higher intelligence and intelligence has a negative correlation with propensity to criminal activity. So I expect that if all the confounding factors could be taken away, atheists would still be significantly less predisposed to crime.
It could be a balloon. It could be Franky. It could be very fresh and clean. It could be those ways.
