Numbers don't lie: Godless families raise better children

You've clearly never been around many Duke alumni. Along those lines ...

Many moons ago I was shooting the breeze with this guy I met after a round of golf. His wife was at her high school reunion the next room over, and he was killing time away from the madness. Turns out we were both alums of the same school. He'd gone on to become a muckety-muck at a big, multi-state power company. Once, a meeting of muckety-mucks of said company was held on the morning of the Duke homecoming parade. As the band played within earshot, the guy leading the minute said, "I think we should pause a moment in honor of the most religious students and alumni in America." Everybody else looked around quizzically, and the guy said, "Yeah, they worship one another!"

 

I don't disagree with this. When I think of "godless" people, I think of highly-educated, often pacifist, Vermont types with good (if not spectacular) incomes. Likely in higher-end teaching, public administration, etc.

When I think of Christian or faith-based families, it splits into two groups -- the nuclear family where the six-figure income father who pays for everything or the middle-class to lower-income family scraping by.

 

As somebody who has lived among Catholics, Jews, Christian Jews, Muslims, Budhists, Non-Roman Catholics, Orthodox and the South, all I can do is learn and try to respect different cultures.

One of my brothers or myself was suppossed to be a catholic priest, its a Roman Catholic tradition but my mom was converted baptist in South Carolina.

Being multi-cultural can be good or bad... it depends on how you look at it.

 

That's actually good to know. It's the one game my kids have where they clearly lose track of time when they're playing.

 

I'm betting a lot of people arrive in prison quite godless and with nothing but a lifetime of prison ahead of them convert to God.

 

No alums are quicker on the draw than those from THE Ohio State University. And that was true long before this latest national championship.

 

HEY! I WENT TO A REALLY SHITTY SCHOOL!!!

 

Tony, yep, I covered that earlier with the soap on a rope comment. I imagine atheists have it rough in the tank.

 

Let's say, for argument's sake, that there is actually not a god.

Are atheists still inherently worse people than Christians?

 

Revise/resubmit ... I don't know what in the eff you're getting at.

 

Depends on your definition of "worse."

Hitler was Christian, Mussolini, Franco...

All the European nobility that killed millions of people around the world were christians...