== Atheists in prison - controversies about statistics ==
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== Atheists in prison: Controversies about statistics ==
As alluded to above, Theodore Beale declared in 2011: "While the USA doesn't keep comprehensive statistics related to religion, the UK does..."<ref>[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2011/06/explosive-growth-of-atheism-in-prison.html The explosive growth of atheism... in prison] by [[Vox Day|Theodore Beale]]</ref>
As alluded to above, Theodore Beale declared in 2011: "While the USA doesn't keep comprehensive statistics related to religion, the UK does..."<ref>[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2011/06/explosive-growth-of-atheism-in-prison.html The explosive growth of atheism... in prison] by [[Vox Day|Theodore Beale]]</ref>
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Furthermore, the atheist at Luke Muehlhauser at the website Common Sense Atheism indicated in 2009:
Furthermore, the atheist at Luke Muehlhauser at the website Common Sense Atheism indicated in 2009:
{{Cquote|To show that atheists are morally better than Christians, some atheists claim that less than one percent of imprisoned Americans are atheist, even though atheists represent 10% of the population. Such statistics are either made up or based on a questionable 1925 study. In [http://www.adherents.com/misc/adh_prison.html truth], “the segment of the prison population which self-identifies as non-religious is approximately twice as large as found in the general population.”<ref>[Common Atheist Mistakes] by Luke Muehlhauser, Common Sense Atheism</ref>}}
{{Cquote|To show that atheists are morally better than Christians, some atheists claim that less than one percent of imprisoned Americans are atheist, even though atheists represent 10% of the population. Such statistics are either made up or based on a questionable 1925 study. In [http://www.adherents.com/misc/adh_prison.html truth], “the segment of the prison population which self-identifies as non-religious is approximately twice as large as found in the general population.”<ref>[Common Atheist Mistakes] by Luke Muehlhauser, Common Sense Atheism</ref>}}
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See also: [http://www.adherents.com/misc/adh_prison.html Prison Incarceration and Religious Preference] at Adherents.com