[Christ]

I'll state once again:

There were studies done through the 80's and into the 90's that showed explicitly that areas which had more than one Catholic Church undoubtedly had a higher violent crime rate.













That DOESN'T make Catholics criminals, it just means that someone made the wrong assumptions about studies that were released.

What should have been gotten from those studies (and eventually was gotten, after the media and public forums had their way molesting the study by proliferating the same crap that the OP has here) was that areas with more than one Catholic Church are also more highly/densely populated. Now, you can make an inference that the higher population concentration is the cause of the elevated crime rate, and not the Catholic religion.

Figure out what studies were incorrectly referred to, and you'll almost certainly debunk anything of the sort.