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To: Lane3 who wrote (83191)	9/9/2008 7:55:21 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542043

If you didn't mean to imply that their bad behavior was a function of their lack of religiosity, what did you mean? You are the one injecting causality. I simply stated my observation that in my experience the kids creating problems at school in the areas I described were not coming out of religious homes. I didn't say lack of religious training was causing it....maybe these kids were being abused and neglected. Although I will say that abused and neglected children also don't tend to come out of religious families. These are reasonable observations that I feel sure others have noticed, so I honestly don't know why you seem to be offended. And one could probably make a similar observation about one parent homes vs. two parent homes.

To: Lane3 who wrote (83191)	9/10/2008 11:00:50 PM
From: Bridge Player	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542043

You injected causality when you framed the "bad" kids as predominantly non-religious. That seems to confuse correlation with causality, something I know you would not do intentionally. I submit that the serious troublemakers in any school are far more likely to come from non-religious homes. Just as the number of crimes committed by blacks in the U.S. is higher than whites in proportion to their percentage makeup of the population. But being black per se is not the cause.