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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: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Sunday November 08 2015, @04:48PM
you can think of religion as a 'human rootkit'. once its installed (and installed early enough) the bad guys can insert any kind of message they want and the subject has no choice but to accept the programming.
or, maybe a better analogy is a bootloader. religion is a bootloader with the fuse blown; and once the knock-on sequence is triggered, the subject happily will accept the byte stream and 'run it' without questioning it.
oh, and the crc mechanism is broken so even corrupted byte streams still are accepted and run without question.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday November 09 2015, @01:33AM
Do you realize, though, that every guy who refused religious teachings as he grew up, probably including you, is invalidating your pretty metaphor?
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