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This Could Be the Most Laughable Example of a Forced Outcome “Study”
The results of this study don’t even make sense.
The conclusion of this tax payer salaried horseshit study is that people who believe in hell commit less crime, but people who believe in heaven commit more crime.
This is like concluding a study with the extrapolation that “people who believe that butter leads to heart disease eat healthier, while the people who believe that eating less butter is ultimate rewarding eat unhealthy.
One only has to read the part where the “study” interviewed people from “all around the world” to understand where they’ve ridden off the rails. This renders the study completely useless in their effort to promote a Godless society.
Believing if you are on a “highway to hell” could impact whether or not if you commit a crime.
A study published in the scientific journal PLoS One by University of Oregon’s Azim Shariff and University of Kansas’s Mijke Rhemtulla finds that people who believe in hell are less likely to commit a crime while people who believe in heaven more likely are to get in trouble with the law.
The two professors collected data for belief in hell, heaven and God from the World and European Values Surveys that were conducted between 1981 until 2007 with 143,197 participants based in 67 countries. They compared the data to the mean standardized crime rate in those countries based on homicides, robberies, rapes, kidnappings, assaults, thefts, auto thefts, drug crimes, burglaries and human trafficking.
I may not be a professor, but shouldn’t they ask people in prisons if they believe in heaven or hell, neither or both?
Why traverse the globe to ask random people their beliefs, only to conclude that the people who believe in heaven are the problem? (I think we know the answer.)
Perhaps they could have also asked the prisoners if they believed in heaven before they were caught committing their crimes. T(here are plenty of devout people in prison, finding that old time religion the moment the iron door slammed.)
It seems the pointy-headed professors also missed the possibility that areas with high crime could have a majority of the people praying to God, hoping for a better fate awaiting them in heaven, while a minority of the people are the ones committing the crimes.
The entire report is an insult to logic and reason.
I’ve reread the last part of this CBS story about 5 times and I still have no idea what they are talking about. I don’t think CBS does either. They published it because it slams religion. That’s good enough for them.
“[R]ates of belief in heaven and hell had significant, unique, and opposing effects on crime rates,” Shariff and Rhemtulla found in the study. “Belief in hell predicted lower crime rates … whereas belief in heaven predicted higher crime rates.”
They also found that a recent social psychological experiment found that Christian participants who believe in a forgiving God gave themselves more money for the study.
“Participants in the punishing God and both human conditions overpaid themselves less than 50 cents more than what they deserved for their anagrams, and did not statistically differ from the neutral condition, those who wrote about a forgiving God overpaid themselves significantly more-nearly two dollars,” the study found.
Shariff and Rhemtulla believe that the study raises “important questions about the potential impact of religious beliefs on global crime.”
What are they yammering about?
MN Patriot
June 24th, 2012
They are the kind of people I meet around here all the time. The kind that the first words out of their mouth’s are ” I have a Masters degree so I’m intellectually and morally superior to you. “
Moe Tom
June 24th, 2012
26 year study and a lot of travelling. Wonder who picked up the tab?
Moe Tom
June 24th, 2012
They paid themselves? WTF?
Roadmaster
June 24th, 2012
Too clever by half? Maybe 5/8ths, 3/4rs? They actually believed they had done some good work?
I think I’ll put in for a gubmint grant for a study that proves Libdolts want the rest of us living in hell. It’ll be easy – we’re almost there….
RosalindJ
June 24th, 2012
I know they managed to make themselves sound as if they were asking Important Questions, but they basically sat around blue-skying ideas until they settled on a couple. And then got other people to pay the freight.
What a racket.
webby h
June 24th, 2012
gee, and coming from two uber-lefty universities
MAJ Mike
June 24th, 2012
Milk is a gateway drug to cocaine.
Edith McCrotch
June 24th, 2012
So what they are saying is that if you are overtly religious you don’t know wrong from right AND that if your beliefs are obscure then you don’t know right from wrong.
NAILED IT !!!!
Mark Zist
June 24th, 2012
Not to mention that the definition of “crime” varies from country to country.
Wyatt, Insensitive Jerk
June 24th, 2012
I would think that for most people, the concepts of heaven and hell are intertwined. How can one believe in a heaven without a hell, or vice versa? Would this concept not invalidate the basic criteria underlying the study?
Besides, the people who believe in hell are lying – that’s why they believe in hell.
MN Patriot
June 24th, 2012
By “here” I mean where I’m at, not IOTW.
AQT214
June 24th, 2012
I think that surveys and polls indicate that approximately 95% of the Earth’s population believe in some form of afterlife, i.e., “paradise” or Heaven, or what have you.
Therefore, if HALF of 95% of people commit a crime, even jaywalking, it seems like people who believe in (Heaven) are some kind of hypocrites.
This is just more proof that we are infested with Satanic Leftists who think daily of new ways to need their attitudes adjusted.
House of Kell
June 25th, 2012
Isn’t this basically the same premise behind political correctness….’that it IS possible to pick up a piece of shit by the clean end’?
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muddjuice
June 25th, 2012
BUZZ! Wrong answer.
More aply put. This who believe in the truth about Heaven and hell, that there is eternal consequences for you actions, are less likely to commit crimes. Those who believe that everyone goes to “heaven” regardless of what you do, are most likey to be evil, liberal, terrorists, etc.
I just did the study and came to the proper, truthful conclusion with no use of taxpayer money. You’re welcome……
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