Why do murderers in prison always seem to turn religious before they are about to die?
I don’t think the “always” turn religious – I think a few do, and the religious make a big thing of it. And beyond that, I agree with “trouble” as to the detailed reasoning. As an atheist, I believe that we invent god to explain why, incomprehensibly, most of us are nice most of the time when it seems we could do so much better by being nasty. Actually, we would lose by all being nasty because society would collapse: you can be better of by being nasty only if everybody else stays nice. So we have evolved to be mostly nice – but occasionally nasty when we think we can get away with it. But we don’t understand why we are nice – and fear that others won’t be. So we invent a rule-maker to tell us to be nice (which we were going to do anyway – mostly) and others (which we feared they wouldn’t). So when someone has been condemned to the ultimate punishment for being not-nice, it is not surprising that that they suddenly “discover” the being that enforces nice-ness, and hope to make up for t
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