Thursday, November 18, 2010

More questions than answers with faith-based prisons

Premise is for those obvious live in moral space, an imposed first song will also help them to be good and useful members of society.
Family first MLC Robert Brokenshire and Helen Glanville, prison fellowship, want to see the faith-based prison unit introduces south Australia.
They say there is evidence that these items - which are in place international - to help people come out of prison, non-toxic proud, and help them to reward the society.
At first glance, it's a good idea.
If the evidence can be calculated and strictly abide by the Christian reduces the risk of recidivism, good thing.
In the absence of moral, let them have faith?
One thing let me, a bit like chemical castrated.
Can say is effective and can be cured, not really treatment problems, but at least create an obstacle question is expressed. .
This is a moral?
Religious yes selection problem. Australia is becoming a more diverse country, after each day. Non-christian religions in growth, and the proportion of christians in decline.
So let inmates scoring for taking part in the Christian plan seems to be discriminatory, to say the least.
New denominational Christian, even in continuously appear.
The fastest growth units are those who believe in the day of Pentecost, direct experience of the holy spirit, speakers dialect, hallelujah mob.
They have a very different philosophy of catholics and England.
So how do you find a common ethical? It seems that a may have fallen into a "f" simple. And this is reasonable, affirmation some without any ethics should learn.
But even this is based on the assumption that the crime do, because they don't know of any better things, a false assumption for most criminals came from the background, surging opportunity, offending.
If this is true, religion is a good tool to teach people to behave better, so the best people to work, of course, is a buddhist.
If you must create a moral construction, Buddhism is the goods.
Teach prisoners, life is painful, the root cause of suffering is desire, the most important thing is to introduce the karma associated.
Of course teaching actions have consequences have the most striking parallels with judicial system? If it's purpose is to introduce the normal human values, why do you need a religion? There are many ethical philosophers, use a lot of sound and logical empathy and moral existence. Get lecturer, rather than a priest.
But no points from the whole conversation unless you can prove god stop people his crime.
There are various studies that have shown religious people have more self-control and are less likely to commit crimes in the first place - that is, if you remove wars from the equation.
There have also been studies that show atheists tend to have higher levels of education, and that educated people are less likely to commit crimes.
So the idea of bringing God into prisons is an interesting one, one that raises more questions than it answers, not least of which is whether bringing religion into prisons does any more than make prisoners pay lip service to something they do not believe in.
The final question, as posed by AdelaideNow readers, is how would a faith-based prison unit help a paedophile priest?

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