Morgan

However, in general, churches do not preach the more unsavoury aspects of the Bible. I believe that religion should go, but we need something to replace it.

On the criminal's faith point, you'll have to give me a little time to get my sources.

raindropple

Pascal

Do you care to comment on this statement of yours?

Thanks

I ate Pascal's Wafer

Sure. I don't know how accurate my sources are, but both say that Islam is growing at about 2.9% a year, while the world population is only growing about 2.3% a year. If you have more accurate sources feel free to post them.

Mine are: <a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/worldrel.htm" target="_blank">religioustolerance.org</a> and <a href="http://www.top-education.com/Religions/islam1.htm" target="_blank">top-education.com</a>

-Nick

NOGO2

Religion is here to stay.

However, its influence is definitely declining and has been for some time.

Eventuallu religion will be like astrology.

Gringo

I was watching a discussion on tv about this very question with various pundits. The Jewish guy, I think, answered it best. He said nowadays, people like to take a little Muslim, a little Christianity, a little Buddhism and whatever else, mix it with some vodka and call it religion. New religions will rehash what worked best in the dying or dead ones and resell the program to the masses who will swallow it up. But whatever happens, most people are not going to become critical thinkers or logical reasoners. We're a long way from that, and probably getting further away all the time. I just hope Scientology doesn't take over as the dominant religion.

Sci_Fidelity

This is an unsupported assertion. You have no way of knowing whether theistic law or secular law is responsible.

You've actually made several unsupported assertions. Here's another:


This is dead wrong. Most criminals in prison are religious; the vast majority in U.S. prisons are christian. As soon as I find the link, I'll post a reference on this.

Also, if criminals are not "of faith", how does religious law prevent crime?

Sci_Fidelity

Here you go-

The following are total number of inmates per religion category:

Adventist 621
American Indian 2408
Atheist 156
Bahai 9
Buddhist 882
Catholic 29267
Church of Christ 1303
Hindu 119
Jehovah Witness 665
Jewish 1325
Krishna 7
Moorish 1066
Mormon 298
Muslim 5435
Nation 1734
No Preference 13878
Orthodox 375
Pentecostal 1093
Protestant 26162
Rasta 1485
Santeria 117
Scientology 190
Sikh 14
Unknown 4503
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Total 96,968

Source: Federal Bureau of Prisons

beoba

That "No Preference" entry leaves a lot of uncertainty..