[Vision2020] Blue States, Crime and religion

[Phil Nisbet]

The article put forward here on V2020 by the radical elements of the 
evangelical atheists suggesting that religion in the United States was a 
major reason for crime seems good to bring back up now that the annual crime 
reporting for the USA and its various subdivisions is out from the FBI.

Of particluar interest is the crime rate per hundred thousand for metro 
areas versus rural areas.  The same can be noted in Red counties versus Blue 
Counties and initial ganders at the stats seem to indicate that violent 
crime is more likely to get you in a Blue district than in a Red one.

Using the same silly technique used for the United States as a whole versus 
European countries, we would draw the conclusion that an area that Voted for 
Kerry in 2004 was a dangerous place filled with sociopaths.  Far be it from 
me to suggest that membership in the Democratic party leads a person to be 
immoral and likely to beat somebody else's skull in with a hammer, but if we 
use the technique propsed by our radical atheists, we can draw no other 
conclusion.

So if it can be propsed that people be taught not to accept the morality of 
religion, perhaps a similar nonsensical proposal could be fronted that Kerry 
Voters must also be inherently immoral and dangerous?

Phil Nisbet

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