atheists in prison

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The results of the Christians vs atheists
in prison investigation.

I found it most intriguing that atheists make up only 0.209%. Five tenths of one per cent. I would say atheists are extremely moral people from the figures on this site.

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"I found it most intriguing that atheists make up only 0.209%. Five tenths of one per cent. I would say atheists are extremely moral people from the figures on this site."


Respectfully RebelSnake;

.209 is two tenths of one percent!

Here's a good Jail study. It's an old one but, I would say the MATH is 100% accurate:

Acts 16
22The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten. 23After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. 24Upon receiving such orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

25About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. 26Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody's chains came loose. 27The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped. 28But Paul shouted, "Don't harm yourself! We are all here!"



29The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. 30He then brought them out and asked, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

31They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household." 32Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. 33At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his family were baptized. 34The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole family.

Now for the original post,

Could it be that your 'glasses' are a little clouded by a presupposition that atheists are actually morally good? But how could that be since the -general- atheist does not have a foundation for *morality*?

Or could it be that those statistics show that most atheists are converted to Christianity upon spending jail time as they realize they must pay for their breaking of the secular law and then reflect on God's moral law and repent.

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There are few atheists altogether.

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Atheists just don't admit to an untenable worldview.

Or
<<JOKE>>
there was a mistake in the adding and subtracting by the researcher and the rebelsnakkker. <<END OF JOKE>>

Hope to see you again next month, if I am permitted!

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.209 is two tenths of one percent!


It was all my computer's fault I tell ya!! If people can blame gun violence on guns, then I can blame computing mistakes on my computer.

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Here's a good Jail study.


Quoting bible verses hardly qualifies as any kind of a "study'.

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I would say the MATH is 100% accurate:


I seem to recall the bible is not that reliable when it comes to math.

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Or could it be that those statistics show that most atheists are converted to Christianity ...


C'mon now, get serious.

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Or

There are few atheists altogether.

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Note that atheists, being a moderate proportion of the USA population (about 8-16%) are disproportionately less in the prison populations (0.21%).

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Or

Atheists just don't admit to an untenable worldview.


And exactly what is untenable about atheism?

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Catholic 29267 39.164%
Protestant 26162 35.008%



If anyone is having problems with morality, it seems to be the christians. At 74.172%, they comprise the vast majority of the prison population. I got my math right that time.

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Or could it be that those statistics show that most atheists are converted to Christianity ...


C'mon now, get serious.


Now this is an interesting point. I seem to recall that population statistics for prison inmates was based on information obtained at the time of incarceration. Is that not the case?

Besides, if there was a "conversion" to a religion in prison (I think most conversions in there these days are to Islam, BTW), how serious would you expect to take it after release? If "converting" gets you better treatment or a more likely early release, just how honest do you expect these folks to be?

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the proportion of the population that can be classified as Christian has declined from 86% in 1990 to 77% in 2001;

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the greatest increase in absolute as well as in percentage terms has been among those adults who do not subscribe to any religious identification; their number has more than doubled from 14.3 million in 1990 to 29.4 million in 2001; their proportion has grown from just 8% of the total in 1990 to over 14% in 2001;


From what I found here, it seems rather unlikely there would be very many atheists converting to any religion while in prison. The christian population seems to be having problems though.

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Do you BELIEVE that?


No I don't beLIEve that. I know it.

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RebelSnake wrote:

I seem to recall the bible is not that reliable when it comes to math.

Only when it comes to plane geometry,

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Moreover, Biblical writers often had difficulty in adding figures, and this instance is no exception. Ezra 2:64 says the whole congregation together was 42, 360, whereas, one need only add the figures to see that it is actually 29,818. Neh. 7:66 says the total number of returnees was 42,360, whereas, the actual number of people listed in Nehemiah 7 is 31,089.


I beg to differ, kind sir.

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I got my math right that time

I don't like math either, maybe math don't exist, yea it don't exist so I don't have to do it. Why do I have to believe math? I don't know math, so I don,t believe it! That settles that!