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Here's a discovery that could make secular parents say hallelujah: Children who grow up in non-religious homes are more generous and altruistic than children from observant families. ...
A series of experiments involving 1,170 kids from a variety of religious backgrounds found that the non-believers were more likely to share stickers with their classmates and less likely to endorse harsh punishments for people who pushed or bumped into others.
The results "contradict the common-sense and popular assumption that children from religious households are more altruistic and kind toward others," according to a study published this week in the journal Current Biology.
Worldwide, about 5.8 billion people consider themselves religious, and religion is a primary way for cultures to express their ideas about proper moral behavior — especially behavior that involves self-sacrifice for the sake of others.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 08 2015, @02:57AM
Only the "New Testament" is under 2000 years old, the rest of it is somewhere between 5000-8000 years old.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 08 2015, @08:33PM
Don't forget God III the Final Revelation [wikipedia.org] is even newer than that at a mere 1400 years, give or take.
(Score: 1) by PocketSizeSUn on Sunday November 08 2015, @09:05PM
Judaism and Monotheism isn't that old. So clearly the book cannot be that old either.
At best you could go with the estimated date the Torah was first being written (600 BCE) which would still be closer to 2600 years old. You could use the estimated time of Moses, as the Torah was supposedly dictated to Moses. Using that date would get you to ~1300 BCE so 3300 years old.
The oldest written religious text being the Vedas at ~1500 BCE which only gets you 3500 years old.