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  2. If you spend any time around public defenders (as I do, being married to one), you will find out that many of their clients do in fact go to church on a regular basis, and have to check with the deity of their choice before taking a plea deal. In the negotiations up to the plea, your average public defender will listen to her client lie with great conviction, right up to the point where they confess.Report

    1. To be clear: I’m not saying that very pious people are necessarily liars. Atheists lie sometimes too. It turns out that piety, religiosity, and belief have nothing whatsoever to do with whether someone is a good person or not.

      When someone offers piety as a proxy for morality, however, it really bugs me. And it should bug genuinely faithful people even more than it bugs someone like me.Report

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