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  1. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    What's this got to do with this OP? Are you an idiot? No, do you?
  2. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    There was no premise stated from the start of this thread discussing the problems of psychological studies. You just dismissing these studies by assertions means nothing.
  3. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    I think this identity more prevalent in nations and communities that have to or want to confront an injustice. Hence, it becomes an important part of their identity, and, in a sense, they think they're doing good and standing up for something. To continue with this thought, you don't see...
  4. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    Next post I'll make sure it's accessible to everyone
  5. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    I don't know how much your trolling or simple minded posts deserve attention but I took a look at the weak study. It's like it was done by an undergrad with like 8 references lol. The paper is abysmal and I can't even find it on web of science, probably because no publisher will accept it...
  6. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    I'm not stopping you.
  7. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    I'll copy and past a large segment, because there is evidence to back it up. Of course, this should be taken, like all studies, with scepticism. Cameron (2004) outlines three non-mutually exclusive factors that constitute social identity. The first factor, centrality, is defined as the...
  8. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    He's trolling. Yep, social control theory. I doubt they are the exception. Schroeder(2017) proposed social identity theory. Atheists and agnostics may have a strong sense of identity, and certain studies reflect this, similar to the highly religious. Therefore, there is a strong sense of...
  9. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    Most studies look at the effects of religiosity, not spiritually. However, this study(Jang, 2013), examined for the first time spirituality as well, but they also, kinda, measured atheism/agnosticism. Not well. mind you, but this was not their hypothesis so it was not important for them. They...
  10. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    Jesus Christ, the amount of times I need to correct people in this thread is astonishing.
  11. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    Yes. Lol, it doesn't, "float a hypothesis." It found evidence. What? First, no, there's a plethora of studies, as shown in the first reference, that religiosity(among the religious lol) correlates with crime. Second, These are correlation studies so they don't know the cause. I underlined...
  12. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    They are. The systematic review shows there is a correlation between religiosity and crime. The other open-source study(Jang, 2013) shows the difference when one measures non-belief and supports the hypothesis that crime correlated with religiosity. Sucks. Then you can talk about, "One...
  13. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    Just for info, for the general consensus(Johnson, 2010) link, press on the "Download full-text PDF," button in the top right to get it in the site.
  14. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    Press on them and you'll find out. Two of them are open-source. The other two, not so much. It's a non-linear association. I don't think it's a bell-curve as that describes something else. You may question me on this if you want. Anyway, the image is from (Schroeder et. al., 2017).
  15. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    Perhaps I didn’t explain myself well in the OP. I’ll try explain more succinctly. Ok, so, correlation does not mean causation. I just want to get that out of the way. There have been numerous studies in the sciences over the last 40 years looking at religiosity and the effects it has. Frankly...
  16. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    Apparently, religiosity is.
  17. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    How would you define someone who identifies with this statement, “While I have doubts, I feel that I do believe in God”?
  18. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    Four. I gave four in the OP with links. I highlighted the links in bold, for you. I also showed where the image came from.
  19. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    Sure... In Schroeder et. al., (2017) study, they measured uncertain believers using three items “I don’t believe in a personal God, but I do believe in a Higher Power of some kind,” and “I find myself believing in God some of the time, but not others,” and “While I have doubts, I feel that I...
  20. charlie sc

    Who is more criminally dangerous: the theist or the atheist?

    They gave enough thought to self-report they believe in god. There were 3 items for the various types of uncertain believers in the study. They all came back positively correlated with crime and drugs.
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