Posted on 12/02/2015 2:11:58 PM PST by juliosevero
"St. Louis (predominantly Catholic)", that is, 16% Catholic
"Detroit (predominantly Catholic)", that is, 17.3% Catholic
"New Orleans (predominantly Catholic)", that is, 31.16% Catholic
"Baltimore (predominantly Catholic)", that is, 11.85% Catholic.
I supposed that's one way to look at "predominantly" (permit me the subtlest eye-roll)... Anther way to look at those same cities, is that all of them are over 50% Christian (including all denominations).
None of them are, by contrast, A question you'd have to ask,as well, is "What percentage of the homicides in, say, St.Louis, are perpetrated by Catholics?
I'd bet my next dinner is that the number is so small as to be statistically insignificant.
For many of these cities, you have to look at the influences of ancient pagan religions which worship death and engaged in human sacrifices such as those of the Aztecs, Mayans, of South/Central America as well as Voodoo imported from Africa. Many of the drug cartels are using these religions and black magic practices as they execute the drug wars. This is where a large number of deaths are coming from.
Looking at the list, one could with equal validity claim that being of Latino population causes violence.
As a side note, I live near Baltimore, and there aren’t that many Catholics left there, and those that are are not highly represented in the areas with the high violence rates.
Now Catholics are responsible for the coffee trade? You people live in trees - or at least your ancestors did. And as a Catholic, how could I not believe in evolution when people like you are around?
It’s the complete lack of any religion that is responsible for these horrible statistics.
If these statistics are accurate, which they probably are not.
You got your facts wrong on the US cites: New Orleans, Detroit, Baltimore, and St. Louis are predominantly black. The Catholics fled them a long time ago. Those percentages of Catholics look a little too high. I am sure there are many atheists and agnostics who were baptized but do not practice any religion.
HEY!!!
Well... Freepers tend to think that Christian=conservative and conservative=Christian. But the Church tends not to be very conservative on a lot of economic and immigration issues. In fact Catholic=Democrat/Liberal quite often. And Democrat=crime. So... there is that.
Business Insider would have done well working in Goebbel’s Nazi Propaganda Ministry.
No...the Catholics “used” to dominate the coffee trade...the rich Brazilian plantation owners mismanaged their businesses and other countries from around the world was able to take a huge amount of the market away from them.
But true to form, the plantation workers suffered much worse than the plantation owners.
The mismanagement was because they were Catholic? I doubt it. I mean, I really doubt it.
Not sure why you think we would. I think it’s just a red herring to cover up all the violence committed in Muslim states.
When you see so much of the crime being all over Central and South America anyone would ask what is the “common denominator.” Prior to the arrival of Europeans all those areas consisted of unique peoples with different histories and customs.
The Europeans brutally subdued the people, looted and robbed them of a lot of their natural resources, sending them back to Europe.
The only common denominator is Catholicism.
In addition the US was colonized roughly about the same time by Protestants. But the results turned out so differently.
I have worked a lot with “middle class” Brazilians and they are very warm and friendly people. The crime comes from those in poverty. So the question is, why do Catholic colonized countries have such poverty, that naturally leads to crime.
Brazil should have been a wealthy country by now. The question is, why is it still a poverty stricken developing country, with extreme amount of violent crime? It has an abundance of everything necessary to evolve into a prosperous nation.
LOL
Very interesting but like an appetizer, it leaves you wanting something more substantial.
Violence in Brazil, Venezuela has been endemic to poverty and drugs, but both countries have been ruled for years by Marxists (Chavez and Maduro; Lulu and Marxist terrorist Russakopf (sp?).
Colombia - wracked by both communist terrorism and narcoterrorism (both Marxist and anti-Marxist)
South Africa - run by the Marxist ANC/CPSA
Honduras - drug traffickers and corruption
Mexico - corruption, drug gangs, minor Marxist terrorists
Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis - largely black majority cities run for generations by Democrats, white and black. Detroit has a white conservative Republican as mayor but he is up against an entrenched black Democrat machine, old-time Marxists (The Coleman Young/John Conyers Jr. gang), leftist dominated unions, and just plain corrupt politicians.
Baltimore - once “a world class city”. Today, run by incompetent black politicians (the successors to Marxist Martin O’Malley and jailed Mayor Dixon), all Democrats.
The local DA Mosby is racially corrupt as hell and possibly politically corrupt as well.
I was born and raised there. Knew a lot of politicians, many honest, some corrupt, all Democrats.
Don’t see Johannesburg, So. Africa on the list. The are known as the “Murder Capital” of Sub-Saharan Africa”.
“Detroit has a white conservative Republican as mayor”
Mike Duggan Mayor is indeed white but he is a true democrat.
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