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Bible Belt leads the Nation in Black Friday Violence

[patheos.com]

RavenCT 9 Nov 24
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The comments are all 3 years old so im guessing so is the article

Yup it's a couple years old. You are right.

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No mention of the Black Friday shooting that resulted in one death. (& yes, it occurred in a southern state, I just can't remember which one.)

Carin Level 8 Nov 25, 2018
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Why did that make me laugh 😀 ...I know folks have suggested we should have cut the south loose when we had the chance … but if we had, they’d have likely killed us by now..

Varn Level 8 Nov 25, 2018
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That's because the term "Black Friday" was accidentally translated from the original Hebrew bible to "The Purge" in the Christian version.

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Apparently we are supposed to think that since religious behaviors are a few percentage points more prominent in the South, and fights are somewhat more likely in some southern places, then the cause of fighting is religion. It is a flawed way of thinking IMO. In the first place, the South is a vast region containing over one third of the nation’s population. Do people really think they have neatly summed up the South when they throw out that “Bible Belt” moniker? How do you know it’s the religious ones who are doing the fighting? Half the population seldom or never goes to church. Do you think maybe some of them are the ones fighting?

I clicked on that link and then clicked on the Estately.com link which supposedly conducted the study. What I found was an advertisement for a real estate company along with a silly, frivolous piece about levels of interest in Black Friday by state, and one person’s unprofessional attempt to correlate that with crime rates. The correlation is very shaky, and the named states only roughly overlap the South. Even if there were some sort of correlation, what serious use could possibly be made of the information? And there was no reference to religion at all.

If you want to understand criminal behavior don’t look to churches. My impression is that the people prone to criminal acts are not interested in religion. They don’t call themselves atheists—atheists are a select group. They are selfish people who are looking only for gratification of their own selfish desires. There are studies showing that regular church attendees are much less likely to be charged with misdemeanors. So far as felonies, regular church attendees rarely commit felonies and there’s not enough data to even make up a meaningful study.

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And almost no atheists in prisons so I kind of believe this could be true.

Of course it could be a false equivalency too. Perhaps more persons per store?

@RavenCT Atheists are people with the courage, education and intelligence to break away from religious dogma, or they were raised as atheists. Either way, it is perfectly understandable that there would be but few atheists in prison.

You can not from that infer that religious people are more likely to be criminals. As I pointed out, there is a different class of person who tends to do criminal acts, and I gave a link showing various studies that show confirmation.

The so-called study was worthless. They didn’t look specifically at fighting in stores. They merely looked at government data on crime rates for each state and pretended to correlate that with some data they claim they gleaned from Facebook.

If you want to launch a hateful attack on some of your fellow citizens, it is easy to point to some online article to back up your point of view. Never mind that other articles refute that point of view.

@WilliamFleming So a false equivalency then?

@RavenCT I suppose you could call it that. It’s the taking of an advertisement by a real estate company that had a frivolous “study” attached and turning that into a vicious attack against one third of the country and against all religious people everywhere through over-generalization, also known as stereotyping.

@WilliamFleming

As most of the population is religious most behavior is from that population - not the agnostics.

I absolutely did not fact check - but now folks can read this and see the flaws. ?

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Isn't that like the 11th commandment,thou shall shop until you drop or go bankrupt??

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It figures....

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