Are religious people more violent than nonreligious people?

[Tis_Bearself]

More evidence that you can make a statistic say anything you want it to. Having had about four college and graduate-level statistics courses, I know this to be true.

Not interested in agenda-driven religion-bashing, and that’s what this looks like.

 

[Dovekin]

Imagine there’s no heaven…
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace, ooh

I think John Lennon provides the answer. Violence and religion coexist because they both care enough about something “to kill or die for.” Imagine all the people, not caring about anything. It sounds awful to me. But it is what it comes down to. Religion gives you a reason to live… and sometimes a reason to kill unfortunately. Violence comes from disordered desires for something, from actual things to emotional demands.

 

[EndTimes]

Some believe that religion is a major cause of violence worldwide.

“religion” is a vague-ish term …

Militant Atheism - is responsible for Zillions of Murders of Christians and others.

 

[Neithan]

Violence is motivated by a desire for power or a perceived injustice. Wars are always political. The data you’re looking at conflates countries with individuals and is a poor selection for analysis. We’d have to look within those countries to control for other factors, and compare individuals within those countries to see if the religious people are more violent than the irreligious people.

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

I’m a devout Catholic but religion is indeed partially driven by fear and a desire to be comforted

I’m not so sure.
If I wanted comfort, Catholicism would not be my first choice

 

[EndTimes]

Are religious people more violent than nonreligious people?​

AntiChristians//Atheists are well-known to support that Lie.

 

[ATraveller]

If we wish to label the strength of the association, for absolute values of r, 0-0.19 is regarded as very weak, 0.2-0.39 as weak, 0.40-0.59 as moderate, 0.6-0.79 as strong and 0.8-1 as very strong correlation

https://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/resou...tics-square-one/11-correlation-and-regression

Using the standard put forth by The British Medical Journal, the claim religious people are more violent than nonreligious people, which has a r=-0.25, is junk.

 

[EndTimes]

Using the standard put forth by The British Medical Journal , the claim religious people are more violent than nonreligious people, which has a r=-0.25, is junk.

Secular Medical Societies are almost bound by oath to oppose Christ?

 

[ATraveller]

Secular Medical Societies are almost bound by oath to oppose Christ?

No they aren’t.

 

[ALittleBitCrunchy]

My experience is that nonreligious people are much more likely to be violent than religious people are, adjusting for age and income.

 

[EndTimes]

My experience is that nonreligious people are much more likely to be violent than religious people are, adjusting for age and income.

Militant Atheists have been the worst… AntiChristian to the core…