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To: watchin
PS - According to prison population figures, 80% of murderers in jail are Christians.

This doesn't mean a Christian is 80 times more likely to commit murder.

72 posted on 02/02/2002 10:28:10 AM PST by Doctor Doom
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To: Doctor Doom
"According to prison population figures, 80% of murderers in jail are Christians. This doesn't mean a Christian is 80 times more likely to commit murder. "

I think you're being facetious, but I'll say it anyway - you're comparing apples with oranges, I think. First of all, the behavior and the beliefs you speak of are not only unrelated, but diametrically opposed. A brief look at the Bible will confirm that criminal activity is in no way condoned or encouraged. But when we speak of homosexual activity and homosexual child sexual abuse, the two are closely related - both being sexual activities separated only by the age of the participants. The point being that it would be counterintuitive to say that Christianity causes criminal behavior, but a reasonable conclusion to say that a man who wants to put his **** in another man's *** might find a smaller and younger *** a temptation.

I realize that the corresponding argument could then be attempted - that heterosexual activity leads to heterosexual child molestation for the same reason, but the statistics seem to indicate that heterosexuals are far more able to draw that line than homosexuals. That was my original point - that something is "broken" in the homosexual community to produce such numbers. That is, homosexual activity seems to lead to child molestation at 50 times the rate of heterosexual activity.

Another distinction: Those inmates you speak of come in at least three varieties

1. those who have converted to Christianity since their convictions
2. those who think they're Christians because parents were
3. those who were truly believers when they commited a crime.

Let's try those categories again, this time for man/boy offenders

1. those who have converted to homosexuality since raping a boy? (huh?)
2. Those who think they're homosexual because they're parents were? (Hey, that would clinch the homosexual gene argument)
3. And, finally, those who were truly homosexuals when they commited the crime.

My main point was this: any demographic that produces half of a given crime with 2% of the population is wacked somehow, and needs to answer for that.

102 posted on 02/02/2002 4:02:03 PM PST by watchin
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