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If four atheists such as Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot order the deaths of 100 million victims while a hundred subscribers to Richard Dawkins Youtube channel live lives of bourgeois smugness, but 10 members of Rev. Billy Bob\u2019s Trailer Trash Church of Snake Handling knock over 10 Kwiki Marts, does this mean \u201cbelievers in heaven\u201d commit \u201cmore\u201d crimes?<\/p>\n

I think the takeaway is that if you belong to a tiny sect of atheistic nihilists, every 100 atheists gets a bonus mass murderer, absolutely free of charge!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m an English major, but I think I\u2019m starting to figure out this whole statistics thing\u2013at least as well as the English major who go on to write stories about \u201cstudies\u201d that \u201cprove\u201d extremely dodgy propositions.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"