quote:Originally posted by DeepFat:quote:Drugs, gang violence, school shootings, are all the result of the decline of the worshiping of God
Rubbish.
I have no data on the subject, but I imagine god-believing drug addicts are proportionately the same as the population.
I live in LA. I know gangs. You're hard-pressed to find a gangster without crosses and Blessed Virgins tattood all over them. Please. The Mafia does not allow atheists.
School shootings have to do more with bullying, easy access to daddy's gun, and modern teens' sense of ultimate entitlement from a culture that "puts children first". Those sufficiently mentally ill to perpetrate such an act will not let religion get in the way.
Man becomes arrogant? How arrogant is it to invent gods very much like us?
I'll leave you with this: Atheists make up 10-14% of the US population. We make up about 1/2 of 1% of prison populations.
DF
Fat, I would think that someone as intelligent as yourself would recognize when someone was speaking of society in general, not in terms of micro societal issues.