Those who believe in heaven commit more crimes

patriot66 said:
And you have never been to the lower peninsula's upper west region around Travers City, beautiful
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don't be so harsh.....Ohio has its nice spots too......

here are some trees.....I think they borrowed them from Michigan for the winter.....
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SuperstringTheory said:
The quote is from the study. I assumed you could find it from the link desh/evince provided. I did a cut and paste and the "table" link apparently broke in the process.

Here is a direct link.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0039048

The paragraph is quoted is the first paragraph under the section Results.
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I found the table long ago.....please tell us from the data in the table what the results were for people who believe in both heaven and hell....what's that?......you say the data isn't on the table?......what a surprise.....

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PostmodernProphet said:
I found the table long ago.....please tell us from the data in the table what the results were for people who believe in both heaven and hell....what's that?......you say the data isn't on the table?......what a surprise.....

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Therefore, the title was NOT "Those who believe in heaven AND hell commit more crimes." You fail.
 
Threedee said:
Who believes in hell (not some analogy, but actual hell) but not heaven?
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Yeah, as I mentioned previously and was forced to embarass pmp in another tangent, that seems odd. But look at Figure 1. Apparently, it's not that uncommon, though far less common than the reverse. It appears to be a part of some eastern religion(s).
 
SuperstringTheory said:
Yeah, as I mentioned previously and was forced to embarass pmp in another tangent, that seems odd. But look at Figure 1. Apparently, it's not that uncommon, though far less common than the reverse. It appears to be a part of some eastern religion(s).
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I think people get confused. There is a long history of a monolithic afterlife in some religions such as Judaism. That doesn't make the afterlife either a version of hell or of heaven. It's just Christians, Muslims, etc. being confused because we have a clearly defined heaven and hell.
 
SuperstringTheory said:
It was not shown that the study disagrees with the title. Quite the opposite. The study showed that belief in heaven and belief in hell had unique and opposing effect on crime.

As predicted, rates of belief in heaven and hell had significant, unique, and opposing effects on crime rates. Belief in hell predicted lower crime rates, B_hell = −1.941, p<.001; whereas belief in heaven predicted higher crime rates, B_heaven = 1.958, p<.001 (Note that these are standardized regression coefficients, so they may be interpreted as effect sizes). Controlling for the effect of belief in heaven, a 1 SD increase in belief in hell resulted in an almost 2 SD decrease in national crime rate; conversely, controlling for the effect of hell, a 1 SD increase in belief in heaven resulted in an almost 2 SD increase in national crime rate. Analyzing each crime individually revealed the same significant pattern of effects for 8 of the 10 individual crimes (kidnapping and human trafficking excepted; see Table 1).
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What the hell is wrong with you?
The only comment I made was where I made mention of an "OP" that had been posted on AOL.
 
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