CRYBABIES: Atheists demand apology after university head says that secularism ‘threatens American democracy’.

“What will happen to our democracy? Where are the institutions that are going to teach the next generation of Americans that they too need to voluntarily obey the laws?” asks Mr Christensen on the video. “Because if you take away religion, you can’t hire enough police.”

The decision to send the message to all students and staff at Troy – a public university founded in 1887 – angered atheist groups who challenged the notion that only God-fearing people can lead moral and law-abiding lives. . . .

The letter went on to challenge the assertion that religion is necessarily a bulwark against disorder, citing research by Prof Phil Zuckerman, the leading secularist at Pitzer College in Los Angeles, whose work has analysed why non-religious nations, like Sweden and Denmark, have lower crime rates.

First, there’s a big difference between a claim about the aggregate effects of religiosity (or its lack) on society and a claim about the particular effects of an individual’s religiosity on his own behavior. The video message seems (based on the account quoted above) to concern the former, while the response seems to concern the latter.

If they don’t accept this distinction, then maybe they ought to rethink the old, tired claim of their fellow evangelical atheists about religion being the primary cause of wars. After all, plenty of individual religious people don’t go to war. Isn’t it offensive to them to suggest that they’re causing war just by being religious?

(By the way, that old, tired claim is false, as Vox Day pointed out years ago.)

Second, these people might want to reconsider using Sweden and Denmark as examples, given how a massive influx of immigrants can so easily change crime rates:

Staggering rape and assault rape statistics from Sweden from 1985-89 and 1997-2001. Rape committed by Swedish born rapists (blue) were 22.4%. Foreign rapists represent 77.6% . . . Note that the blue bracket of Swedish rapists include foreign born persons with Swedish citizenship as the statistics are only counted on citizenship, and not nationality.

And in Denmark,

People with Somali citizenship were sentenced in 2012 for violations of criminal law almost ten times more often [1000%] as people with Danish citizenship, which taking into account consist of the largest population group.

For every 1000 Somali nationals charged last year 114 were convicted for violations of the Penal Code. The same figures for Danish citizens is 13 (12.9% of 1000), while 54 out of 1000 citizens from other countries got a conviction.

And that figure is rising, reveal the result from data on the development from 2008 to 2012.

One could respond that the crime rates in these countries are rising due to Muslims, not atheists. Yes, but who is letting them in?