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Vindris_SNH posted...

And you seriously think that Huffington Post, a very liberally biased news site, is intending to suggest that we need more religion to reduce violence?

That is off-topic.

Vindris_SNH posted...

It's clear you don't know what a statement of causation is. I was stating a statistical fact. Statistical facts do not prove that one thing was caused by another.

There is no such thing as a "statistical fact" so you're in no position to tell me what I don't know. From both studies we know that as religious participation goes up, crimes go down. That is a correlation. Stating churchgoers are less likely to commit a crime is an assignment of the cause of the crime to religious participation. When it could have been, for example, "people that participate in routine social events are less likely to commit crimes". You assigned the cause. It wasn't the only possible one.