School Prayer And Crime Rates

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[Xigano1]

Found this great one regarding school prayer:

Matthew 6:6

"But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."

...

:-)

[frballz]

Yeah, without prayer school gets worse every year. With prayer it gets worse every 10 seconds.

[TheSkunkCat]

Oh there is an easy connection to make about crime rates actually.

Look at how the crime-rates, particularly violent crime (also things like suicides and the like by the way) rise and fall depending on which party is in power.

I'll give you the answer too. If right-wingers are in charge, those in need are told to go screw themselves, and that leads to both more crime, more violence and more suicides. If you don't take care of your weaker citizens, that's a side effect. Simple as that.

[flamingacdc1]

THE US IS AWSOME but some how the words "In god we trust" is STILL in the pledge of allegance

[Trampadoo]

@Diomedes01: Yeah, sorry, that was a misunderstanding. I think we are on the same page there. :)

[Diomedes01]

@Trampadoo Sorry, I didn't make myself clear.

I wasn't implying that religion and crime had no correlation. I was merely indicating that prayer has no effect on crime and that the two largest factors when it came to crime increases in the USA were prohibition and the war on drugs. Which, one can argue, came about as a result of religious zealots pushing their agenda.

[Trampadoo]

@Diomedes01: Who says there is no relation? More fundie theists (and more school prayer), less open minds for education, more violence, more drugs etc.

There definitely seems to be a relation between low religiousity and low violent crime rates (Europe, Japan) and higher religiousity and higher violent crime rates so completely dismissing any realition doesn't seem sensible to me.

[Diomedes01]

In actuality, the two largest driving factors for spikes in crime for the USA are directly correlated with two things:

1) Prohibition (in the 1920s and 1930s)

2) The war on drugs

School prayer had no effect on crime whatsoever.

[elroyrigsby]

Thxs for the website!

[Drgamedood]

@Xigano1 The author of that verse probably wrote that so that christians in ancient rome could avoid being persecuted.

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