Increased Religiosity linked to poor morality
February 21, 2010 1:44 pm
Wow, now I know I’ve made the claim that religiosity doesn’t make you more moral (and often makes you more racist), but I barely qualify as edutainment, and absolutely no one should ever take me too seriously. How fucking crazy controversial is this study? Religious folks are going to lose their minds over this! Is it wrong that I’m secretly happy and feel vindicated for every time some religious douchebag tried to tell me I must be immoral simply because I don’t believe in their Bronze Age God?
(props to Atheist News for the find)
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17 Comments
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February 21, 2010
ITS ABOUT TIME…
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February 21, 2010
So, what’s new?
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February 21, 2010
This clip has been edited and shows bias.
Here is the whole thing – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxTZv8c_GBM&feature=related
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February 21, 2010
The full version vs the edited version of the video still doesn’t negate the results of the study.
And I’m glad that the paper actually states that religion doesn’t cause immorality, but that there is still a correlation. Only because a lot of us used to be religious before we became atheists/agnostics . Take that apologists!
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February 21, 2010
Agreed.
However, this papers has been out since sept 2009.
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February 21, 2010
Nevertheless, it’s a good policy to state the facts… all of it. If one shows any bias (like the apologetics do), they could easily be called out on it. If one simply presents all the facts and let that do the talking, the apologetics will have less (somehow, they always find a way) to refute the evidence with.
Start leaving shit out, and one becomes the enemy.
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February 21, 2010
Makes sense to me. This is two years old though, so I imagine religious people have just decided to ignore it along with everything else.
Reminds me of this statistic on prison population. A prisoner is 50 times less likely to identify themselves as an atheists\agnostic than the public at large:
http://holysmoke.org/icr-pri.htm
Which is pretty fucking amazing.
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February 21, 2010
Religionuts are zombies……dangerous yes quite dangerous!
Praise Sagan and pass the ammo.
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February 22, 2010
@Jim: I can’t find the original study of those statistics and, as far as I can tell, neither can anyone else.
http://atheistblogger.com/2009/03/13/atheists-in-prison-what-are-the-facts/
If you can find the study please let us know but until you do please don’t bring it up to try and prove a point.
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February 22, 2010
@Oscar
Actually Jim’s comment makes a lot of sense anyway.
As Atheists are more rational people who reason things out they are less likely to be criminals. Further they are likely to be better at evading the cops as they wouldn’t commit a crime based on the faith of not being caught. They would make a reasonable escape. If you don’t believe me then just watch America’s Dumbest Criminals – none of them can reason and therefore I reason they are religious.Yes this post was written in jest. I hope you liked it.
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February 22, 2010
Actually it’s almost exactly what a big chunk of Jesus’ preaching was about.
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February 22, 2010
Okay Oscar chill, wasn’t trying to prove a point. It’s just something I’s heard before and this Post made me think of it. The link I gave was from this article:
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/atheism-rare-among-prison-population
Type in “atheist prison population” into goggle and you get a boat load of them, from various Atheist sites, so it’s either legit or Atheist’s are lying bastards!
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February 22, 2010
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February 22, 2010
@Jim: You’re right point taken. Thanks for the link.
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February 22, 2010
Well this is nothing new, move along folks nothing to see here.
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February 23, 2010
i read the journal of religion and society paper a few years ago, it’s 5 years old.
http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html
here’s a more recent paper he wrote.
http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP07398441_c.pdf
and about being religious in prison, i imagine religious conversions are pretty high in prison, it would probably help around parole time. that’s not to say that atheists would necessarily be converting. i find a lot of people who don’t claim a religion still have a lot of magical thinking which to me precludes atheism.
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April 26, 2010
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