Poll: Do People Need God to be Good?

KenL »

Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:46 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 4

No, you do not need god to be good or do good, this story seems to be very biased and contrary to other polls and stats.
Many of you believers think that we are atheist because we don't want to follow rules, But if you look at the stats for population by religion...here in America 74% claim to be christian, 12-14% nonthiests if you were correct it would be fair to say that prison populations would be less than 74% and more than 12% nontheists...a 1999 fed prison study states that 78.2% are christian and .28% non...so as far as atheists not having morals, ethics or wanting to follow rules, we seem to do just fine.
Your only problem seems to be that we won't believe your stories based on a book written by men well after the supposed events as facts when they contradict what we see, test and know to be true

Atheists 'Evangelizing' in America; How Christians Can Respond

KenL »

Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:18 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

correction * don't take my word for it...research it yourself** PS the Barna group is a statistics group usually hired by the church

Atheists 'Evangelizing' in America; How Christians Can Respond

KenL »

Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:17 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

http://atheistempire.com/reference/stats/main.html

Atheists 'Evangelizing' in America; How Christians Can Respond

KenL »

Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:17 am Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

the stats...please look at the references and take my word for it like you do from your preachers

Atheists 'Evangelizing' in America; How Christians Can Respond

KenL »

Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:15 am Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

YES,I will correct you because you are wrong. Many of you believers think that we are atheist because we don't want to follow rules, But if you look at the stats for population by religion...here in America 74% claim to be christian, 12-14% nonthiests if you were correct it would be fair to say that prison populations would be less than 74% and more than 12% nontheists...a 1999 fed prison study states that 78.2% are christian and .28% non...so as far as atheists not having morals, ethics or wanting to follow rules, we seem to do just fine.
Your only problem seems to be that we won't believe your stories based on a book written by men well after the supposed events as facts when they contradict what we see, test and know to be true