XPost: sac.politics, can.politics, alt.atheism   
   XPost: alt.politics.homosexuality   
   From: David@block.net   
      
   On 3/18/2015 5:11 PM, mur wrote:   
      
   >>>> Not actually supporting your case there.   
   >>>   
   >>>     Yeah it does.   
   >>   
   >> Your quotation is quite clear.  All sinned.   
   >   
   >      That's a very common belief. In fact I've never met anyone who didn't   
   > believe it.   
      
   Thus we are all damned to hell by default regardless of our particular   
   sins.   
      
   >   
   >>>   
   >>>     That would depend on the beliefs of the individual.   
   >>   
   >> Which are whatever the individual wants them to be.  Hence the actual   
   >> prospect of going to prison being a more likely deterrent.   
   >   
   >      So you're saying we should believe no group of people is more likely to   
   > abuse children than any other?   
   >   
      
   Nope.  That's not what I'm saying. And really I can't recall the last   
   time that someone started a sentence with "So you're saying" and   
   accurately conveyed what the person was saying.  It might in fact be the   
   case that atheists are statistically more likely to molest children than   
   church-goers.  You just haven't made a good argument for it or   
   established that the difference, if it exist is particularly large and   
   significant.  You just kind of assumed that the many reports of child   
   molesting in connection to religious institutions are anomalous or   
   fabricated and a couple of atheists who want to lower the age of   
   majority are indicative.  That's no way to establish a statistical   
   claim, much less a causal link.   
      
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