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The vast majority of imprisoned felons in the U.S. are self-professed Christians, not atheists or Muslims or voodoo practitioners.The vast majority of pedophiles are, aside from their predatory acts upon children, straight white men, not gay men or lesbians. Many of them are parents; more than a few have been preachers (not just priests) or active in their local churches.You've diced your brain up into tidy little boxes that contain almost nothing of the real world.

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Thoreau replied, Waldo, the question is what are you doing out there?

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BTW, PD, you seriously need to get off that Purple Majesty Crap.It seems to me that Buzsaw is wrong in his position, but right to support it with hard questions and critiques directed at his interlocutors: How can you debate the moral high ground without addressing the person standing on it?The thread is about more than counting bodies.Thank you, ma'am. Happy New Year. Edited by AdminPD, : No reason given.

Most of the feral religious say they kill because God told them to kill.Even the more benign act of penning the Bible is supposedly a mere act of dictation.Whether I take out Jimmy Hoffa personally or tell an underling to do it, I'm still likely to be convicted, and certainly culpable.But it is charming to think of God using classic cell structures or cut-outs to keep blood off His hands.

I don't think behavioral tenets that can be found throughout the animal kingdom, from rats to chimps--share, mate for life, help those in distress, don't kill each other frivolously, etc.--can be counted exclusively for the religious.