You should follow the link, the Catholics had the worst percentage of all, often half or more.
As for the stats not being truly representative - well, probably not, but I suspect that statistically it has about the same leverl of "truth" as any other social statistic. This report actually was a collection of reports from diff states and demographics. Check it out.
I do not know what this means between religions, I am much more interested in the Atheist, agnostic stats.
Bill Roh
B. Lane Robertson wrote:
> Would be interesting to know how many of these are
> Catholic. I assume not many. Life threatening
> experiences (or those perceived to be life
> threatening... like prison) are known to inspire
> hope in a "savior" and also to bring down the ego
> of those who have established themselves to be
> their own god (or have patterned their lives on
> the off-chance that they, too, might someday
> aspire to godhood... which is the Catholic
> version-- a hierarchy which aspires toward godhood
> at whose pinnacle is the Pope... though who claims
> to represent godhood only symbolically through the
> "pontiff" [an aside]). So I would assume that
> prison encourages a Protestant conversion and that
> statistics to the contrary are not truly
> representing the tendency for christians to go to
> prison).
>
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> ----Original Message Follows----
> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 22:40:23 -0800
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> From: Dave Pape <davepape@dial.pipex.com>
> Subject: Re: virus: Criminals and religion
> Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
>
> At 14:23 01/03/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >Sodom pointed out that ATHEISTS, AGNOSTICS, NON-BELIEVERS
> >MAKE UP ABOUT 10% OF THE U.S. POPULATION, BUT SUPPLY LESS THAN 1% OF
> >PRISON POPULATIONS.
>
> Meaning that... religious people are diproportionately highly
> represented.
> Ah: might be because they're being persecuted...
>
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