>>>a lot of people claim that Jesus was an actual person, but in an era that had an extensive bureaucratic system and census, no record was ever made of him
No record, that is, other than dozens of contemporary books and letters (epistles), many of which are contained in the most published book in all of history (that would be The Bible). Many other contemporary records exist that aren't included in The Bible, including the records of Josephus and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
You can question the religion of Christianity, but to deny the existence of "records" of Jesus shows your bias and blind ignorance.
Way to make totally unfounded and patently absurd assertion sound authoritative!
The ability of criminals to commit crimes against society is severely limited while they are in jail. You don't need a study to understand this.
Many studies show that criminals just return to crime when released. (See http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/rpr94.pdf) Longer actual sentences, do prevent crime. Decades of criminal "corrections" efforts have had no result. Prisons should be used as a tool to separate criminals from the rest of society.
The idea is NOT to "imprison the whole population". The idea is to imprison the criminals!
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>>>a lot of people claim that Jesus was an actual person, but in an era that had an extensive bureaucratic system and census, no record was ever made of him
No record, that is, other than dozens of contemporary books and letters (epistles), many of which are contained in the most published book in all of history (that would be The Bible). Many other contemporary records exist that aren't included in The Bible, including the records of Josephus and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
You can question the religion of Christianity, but to deny the existence of "records" of Jesus shows your bias and blind ignorance.
Way to make totally unfounded and patently absurd assertion sound authoritative! The ability of criminals to commit crimes against society is severely limited while they are in jail. You don't need a study to understand this. Many studies show that criminals just return to crime when released. (See http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/rpr94.pdf) Longer actual sentences, do prevent crime. Decades of criminal "corrections" efforts have had no result. Prisons should be used as a tool to separate criminals from the rest of society. The idea is NOT to "imprison the whole population". The idea is to imprison the criminals!