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Title: what % of people in jail in America are christians?
Post by: ToxicAvenger on August 06, 2010, 08:42:04 PM

99.9%

prove me wrong

Christianity is the religion of sin and crime  :)

you fuckers r evil and are responsible for 99% of rape and murder in America  >:(



lets play!  ;)

Title: Re: what % of people in jail in America are christians?
Post by: Dos Equis on August 07, 2010, 06:22:16 PM

You pulled a statistic out of your rear end and challenged people to prove you wrong?  Uh . . . no. 

Dude are you drunk when you post this stuff? 

Title: Re: what % of people in jail in America are christians?
Post by: ToxicAvenger on August 08, 2010, 06:16:09 AM

Quote from: Beach Bum on August 07, 2010, 06:22:16 PM

You pulled a statistic out of your rear end and challenged people to prove you wrong?  Uh . . . no. 

my point proven

Quote

Dude are you drunk when you post this stuff? 

nah..just bored

Title: Re: what % of people in jail in America are christians?
Post by: Agnostic007 on August 08, 2010, 04:41:06 PM

1997, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 0.21% of inmates were atheist[7]
The Federal Bureau of Prisons does have statistics on religious affiliations of inmates. The following are total number of inmates per religion category:[8]


Catholic 29267 39.164%
Protestant 26162 35.008%
Muslim 5435 7.273%
American Indian 2408 3.222%
Nation 1734 2.320%
Rasta 1485 1.987%
Jewish 1325 1.773%
Church of Christ 1303 1.744%
Pentecostal 1093 1.463%
Moorish 1066 1.426%
Buddhist 882 1.180%
Jehovah Witness 665 0.890%
Adventist 621 0.831%
Orthodox 375 0.502%
Mormon 298 0.399%
Scientology 190 0.254%
Atheist 156 0.209%
Hindu 119 0.159%
Santeria 117 0.157%
Sikh 14 0.019%
Bahai 9 0.012%
Krishna 7 0.009%

Title: Re: what % of people in jail in America are christians?
Post by: loco on August 09, 2010, 06:32:39 AM

Quote from: Agnostic007 on August 08, 2010, 04:41:06 PM

1997, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 0.21% of inmates were atheist[7]
The Federal Bureau of Prisons does have statistics on religious affiliations of inmates. The following are total number of inmates per religion category:[8]


Catholic 29267 39.164%
Protestant 26162 35.008%
Muslim 5435 7.273%
American Indian 2408 3.222%
Nation 1734 2.320%
Rasta 1485 1.987%
Jewish 1325 1.773%
Church of Christ 1303 1.744%
Pentecostal 1093 1.463%
Moorish 1066 1.426%
Buddhist 882 1.180%
Jehovah Witness 665 0.890%
Adventist 621 0.831%
Orthodox 375 0.502%
Mormon 298 0.399%
Scientology 190 0.254%
Atheist 156 0.209%
Hindu 119 0.159%
Santeria 117 0.157%
Sikh 14 0.019%
Bahai 9 0.012%
Krishna 7 0.009%

So does this mean that once in prison, more inmates prefer to convert to Christianity than to convert to Islam?

Title: Re: what % of people in jail in America are christians?
Post by: Dos Equis on August 09, 2010, 02:54:04 PM

Quote from: ToxicAvenger on August 08, 2010, 06:16:09 AM

my point proven

You proved a point by making up statistics and asking to be proved wrong?  What point was that exactly? 

Title: Re: what % of people in jail in America are christians?
Post by: Dos Equis on August 09, 2010, 02:56:36 PM

Quote from: Agnostic007 on August 08, 2010, 04:41:06 PM

1997, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 0.21% of inmates were atheist[7]
The Federal Bureau of Prisons does have statistics on religious affiliations of inmates. The following are total number of inmates per religion category:[8]


Catholic 29267 39.164%
Protestant 26162 35.008%
Muslim 5435 7.273%
American Indian 2408 3.222%
Nation 1734 2.320%
Rasta 1485 1.987%
Jewish 1325 1.773%
Church of Christ 1303 1.744%
Pentecostal 1093 1.463%
Moorish 1066 1.426%
Buddhist 882 1.180%
Jehovah Witness 665 0.890%
Adventist 621 0.831%
Orthodox 375 0.502%
Mormon 298 0.399%
Scientology 190 0.254%
Atheist 156 0.209%
Hindu 119 0.159%
Santeria 117 0.157%
Sikh 14 0.019%
Bahai 9 0.012%
Krishna 7 0.009%

I wonder if the low number of atheists in prison has anything to do with the fact about 90 percent of the country believes in God? 

Title: Re: what % of people in jail in America are christians?
Post by: Agnostic007 on August 10, 2010, 12:49:53 AM

Well, I remember reading when I was looking for some stats about prison populations, that the % of atheist in prison was low compared to the number of atheists in the population. but.. I dunno

Title: Re: what % of people in jail in America are christians?
Post by: dbdb on August 10, 2010, 01:30:07 AM

I would have though Jedi would have been in there somwhere eh.