Thoughtless for the Day

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I just want to take a moment to clear up a misconception about yesterday's Thoughtless. I was by no means implying any causality between the perceived "religiousness" of a country and its rate of violent crime (that'll teach me not to type with my eyes closed). The point I was hoping to make was that having a large segment of a county's population profess a belief in a divine being is not necessarily a guarantee of a stable society...and that all Christians, even the Quakers*, are a bunch of blood-thirsty homicidal maniacs and I have the graphs to prove it!

So if you were planning to show some Fundie the first graph in yesterday's piece expecting him or her to counter with "Yeah, but I America's a lot safer than those other countries", just so you could rebut the poor Babbitt with the second graph, I strongly implore you to abandon this idea. As clearly shown on both graphs, all Christians, even the Shakers**, are scientifically illiterate and violent to the point of psychosis. Those graphs will only anger them. And we all know what happens when Christians get angry: crusades, witch trials, book burning, Jew burning, Queer burning, and Bill O'Reilly rubbing down Brit Hume with a falafel.

Now here's another chart I ripp... found over at Pharygnula:

Apparently, this chart depicts the percentage of Fundies who suddenly decide to no longer be Born Again Christians after attending an assortment of types of colleges. You're all grown-ups. You're all capable of drawing your own conclusions. I don't need to add a single word... except to point out that this chart clearly proves that college cures Christianity...and gout.

There's one last thing I want to share with you today. I was reminded about this clip by a posting over at Reason

*Make that "especially the Quakers"

**Make that "especially the Shakers"