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Permalink Reply by Andrea on June 9, 2011 at 6:16pm

If you think about it, you'd have to have done something pretty dishonest to end up in jail in the first place...I think at that point, most people wouldn't think twice about sacrificing their integrity to catch a break. :\

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Permalink Reply by Marcus Orlyus on June 9, 2011 at 7:27pm

:/ the more you're dishonest, the easier it is to do it again. This does not make it any more okay in my eyes.

 

You make a valid point, but then again, if I refuse to even *appear* to renounce my beliefs in the interest of my honesty, whatever crime I did probably wasn't a violation of that honesty.

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Permalink Reply by Steve on June 9, 2011 at 5:33pm

Most people apparently do. It's why 95% or so of the people in prison claim to be Christians. It also plays nice with the parole boards that fall for the "Christian = moral" ploy

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on June 9, 2011 at 5:47pm

Sure.  And I wouldn't even feel like a sell out.  I'd feel better than most of the conflicted people filling pews today that pretend to believe in some god story but deep down they really don't.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Steven Martin on June 9, 2011 at 5:51pm

If everyone else is getting special privileges for saying they believe in fairy tales, then why shouldn't I? As long as favors are being handed out for not doing a damn thing based in reality, then I'm on board. Why the hell not? I'm a convicted convict at this point for crissakes, ha.

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Permalink Reply by Doug Reardon on June 9, 2011 at 6:08pm

Different scenario: you are being questioned by the Spanish Inquisition.

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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on June 9, 2011 at 6:19pm

In that case I would sign over all my property to them and then tell them I was a Satan worshiper capable of making them all impotent if they freed me from my mortal body.

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Permalink Reply by Rosemary LYNDALL WEMM on June 9, 2011 at 6:32pm

That could backfire badly.  They could just torture you to within an inch of your life, and continue to do so.  Death would be preferable.

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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on June 9, 2011 at 6:40pm

Nah, most of them would be happy with my property and the few pious ones would fear a Satan worshiper and let me go - I think.  Nothing you can do to convince them of your innocence so you may as well go the other direction.

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Permalink Reply by Caesar MacEntire on June 9, 2011 at 8:57pm

I wonder if the Spanish appreciated sarcasm...

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Permalink Reply by Michael Steven Martin on June 9, 2011 at 7:13pm

Well that changes EVERYTHING. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

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Permalink Reply by Ralph Day on June 10, 2011 at 5:08pm

Bring out,.,,the Comfy Chair!

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