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Originally posted by nostatic
but what's your point? Bad people do bad things. Religion or the absence thereof doesn't really seem to be much of an indicator.
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Earlier, the suggestion had been made the Christians are book burners and killers. The facts don't support that statement. They do support (as do I) your conclusion that Christians (including people who claim to be in spite of their actions being blatently anti-Christian) as a group are no better or worse then the population at large. But then the Christian Creeds all acknowledge that Christians confess themselves to be failures at following Jesus's example in spite of our greater or lesser efforts.
BTW, unfortunately good people also sometimes do bad things, and bad people sometimes do good things. So to judge a group of people buy a select group of actions is not a particularly valid way to draw conclusions. From a scientific and statistical perspective it violates the concept of random sampling, and as a result will often show more about the bias of the sampler then the make-up of the sample.