Thread: Heaven, Hell, and Crime

I think it says Economists make bad statisticians.

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

I think it says Economists make bad statisticians.

James.

That's classic!! Except stats people don't draw any conclusions...

it's one of those meaningless exercises that mean nothing because you don't know any of the parameters and in any case it far too general to provide any valid results. I agree it was probably concocted for a specific point of view and unsophisticated recipients.

As far a Judaism and Heaven and Hell the idea is to live the proper life in the here and now and not worry about or base your life on what comes later on though if you examine the writings you will find buried deep, references to what happens to bad people. It's not as clear cut as Christianity but it's there.

I think David just posted this so he could have someone else generate ideas and potential responses for his latest class assignment. LAZY!!!

Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

As far a Judaism and Heaven and Hell the idea is to live the proper life in the here and now and not worry about or base your life on what comes later on though if you examine the writings you will find buried deep, references to what happens to bad people. It's not as clear cut as Christianity but it's there.

Yes, and it has something to do with our mothers, and if only we'd done this, or done that, and why didn't you marry that nice Jewish girl instead of that unappreciative shiksa, oy... Yeah, there is a Jewish hell.

Originally Posted by honedright

Yes, and it has something to do with our mothers, and if only we'd done this, or done that, and why didn't you marry that nice Jewish girl instead of that unappreciative shiksa, oy... Yeah, there is a Jewish hell.

I stand corrected!

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

I stand corrected!

...and, "My best friends son is a Composer, or a Writer, or a This or a That...and MY son, well...he's... happy, and would it hurt to call your old mother once in a while??"

Jeeze! Dante never imagined a comparable level of Hell to that! I'd take fire and brimstone any day!

Oh, love you Mom!

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

Taken from the accompanying article:
"The researchers found that the degree to which each country’s citizens believed more strongly in heaven than in hell predicted higher national crime rates. It seems that believing more strongly in the forgiveness of sins than in punishment in the after-life may help pave the way for further transgressions."
Thus, in a nutshell, the more likely a society is to believe in deities, the higher the crime rate.

I would say that your deduction is correct. If you look at the current state of religion in the United States and the number of individuals that we have incarcerated :
US is 1; Europe is 4 ; left to right(yes it didn't copy completely)
You can conclude that religion in the US doesn't seem to have a positive societal relationship to crime.