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Edited by DemonWarfare:
5/27/2015 11:36:07 AM
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Majority of federal prisoners are theist
[url=http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/why-atheists-make-85-percent-americas-scientists-and-07-percent-its-prison]Within the United States Federal Prison system, 0.07% of inmates are Atheist[/url]
The reason I am posting this is because of the stereotype [u]Atheist have no morals because there is no God to hold them accountable for their actions.[/u]
If the stereotype was true, that number should be much higher than 0.07%.
My main point with this, i[b]t doesn't matter what your belief system is because belief systems don't necessarily correlate with morals.[/b] This isn't a knock against theist just trying to shed some light on really negative assumptions.
Sidenote: I see some Christians/Catholics saying that prisoners aren't real Theist. To those that have this view i ask you:[spoiler]1) Who are you to decide what a good Christian/Catholic/etc is? Isn't God the only one who would know and your just giving your opinion?
2) Aren't all sins equal, from white lies to genocide? [u](In context of religion not law[/u]) So if all sins are equal doesn't that make them just as real as you?[/spoiler]
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7 RepliesYour source is very flawed OP here is the source that your source used http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/07/16/what-percentage-of-prisoners-are-atheists-its-a-lot-smaller-than-we-ever-imagined/ The source its self points out many flaws with the .02% statistic [quote]There were always a lot of problems with that information: The percentages did not take into account prisoners whose religious affiliations were unknown or who did not respond at all. The data in question is more than 15 years old. Whatever it may have represented in the past, it’s practically irrelevant now. There’s no link to any official document with this data, only HTML code that has gone unverified for well over a decade. The websites talking about this data aren’t unbiased. They’re clearly atheist sites trying to make atheists look good. While numbers don’t lie, without the primary documents, it’s hard to evaluate how objective this information is. Golumbaski, the research analyst, no longer works at the Federal Bureau of Prisons… so we couldn’t even confirm that she did this research. The Holysmoke.org website this information appears on doesn’t exactly exude credibility. It has been said that the U.S. doesn’t even keep any data on the religious beliefs of inmates. Tom Flynn once wrote in Free Inquiry: “… no prison I know of has permitted researchers to catalogue inmates’ religious affiliations. No such data has been kept by any department of corrections — or if kept, no such data has been released.” Simply put, if a pastor offered this as evidence that Christians were all-but-absent in the U.S. prison system, we’d mock the hell out of them. We’d ask for better evidence. We wouldn’t let them get away with such flimsy data.[/quote] while it later goes on to point out that it's actually less than .02% it also points out that the statistics only account for the federal prison population of about 200,000 people and of those 200,000 only the people who chose to take part in the survey are counted TL;DR OP's statistic is so flawed that it's basically meaningless
