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fshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 02:15 PM
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Another, rather amazing number....
Edited on Sat Nov-20-04 02:18 PM by fshrink
I'm googling to try to find an answer to my question and I stumbled on this number from the Federal Bureau of Prisons: 0.209 % (that's right people!) of the prison population is atheist. Do convicts lie, hoping that the system, or their cell-"mate", will go softer on them?

Edited to add another one: polling from the journal "Nature": 72.2% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences have a "personal disbelief in god" while 20 more % "doubt" or opt for "agnosticism"...
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slutticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 07:22 PM
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1. Well..
...I guess we CAN tell the difference between right and wrong after all.

0.209%? That's amazing. Can you give me a link to that?
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fshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 09:25 PM
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2. Here
http://www.atheistempire.com/reference/stats/index.html scroll down.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 10:29 PM
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3. it's because xtians are criminal law breakers
while we are good, honest, positive, law abiding citizens.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-25-04 11:27 PM
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4. Well, considering Mafia are ususally practicing Catholics, it
does make you wonder.
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-27-04 08:19 AM
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5. And they usually find Jesus in there
:evilgrin:
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