My source did compare specific crimes. It compared the number of homicides etc. Doing that has far far fewer problems than just comparing 'crimes' because homicide is less ambigious and more obvious when committed.

In any case as I said, my only point was that there has never been evidence of a causal relationship between atheism and crime, I don't believe there is a causal relationship between religion and crime either. My source showed a correlation (and note that I do know the difference between a corellation and causal relationship) between religion and criminality, but I never claimed the relationship was causal.

Now can we get back to the original discussion, please.

Small price to pay for the end of persecution and bigotry...

And I include christianity... count me out of religion, most are based on fear.  Why is it that the most religious countries seem to be either the poorest or the ones involved in most wars these days?

The only one that seems to make even a bit of sense is Buddhism

Red tape gone mad.

I think to the neutral observer this is obviously not a religious assembly but a social gathering of like minded people. But by definition it is a religious assembly and that is all that matters to government administrators. If they recieve a fine for this then they should kick up a fuss (FOX news will anyway lol).