Re: Pim and Russell - Food for Thought

Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Thu, 19 Jun 1997 23:18:40 -0600

At 12:27 PM 6/19/97 EDT, you wrote:
>Chuck wrote:
>
><<"[I]nmates who received as little as 10 hours of Bible studies
>a year via Prison Fellowhip were rearrested one year after
>release at a rate of 14 percent, while otherwise comparable
>(i.e., same offense history, same age) inmates who did not
>receive the [Prison Fellowship] intervention recidivated [committed
>another crime] at three times that rate." [This is cited by
>John J. DiIluio, Jr, in his article "The Coming of the Super-Preachers,"
>published in the June 23, 1997 edition of 'The Weekly Standard'.]>>
>
>That's a great report, and confirms similar tracking in other studies.

Which other studies?

>Even
>more impressive are the personal stories of people like Nicky Cruz, Raul
Ruiz,
>Tom Ramsey, etc. All were at the top of the violence chart and about to
commit
>murder when a Damascus road experience INSTANTLY turned them around.

Those are individual cases which hardly represent a statistical sample.

Furthermore, none of this goes towards proving the other half of
the argument -- your assertion that humanist morality would be
ineffective in such a role.

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