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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 Joe Desertrat on Monday November 09 2015, @05:59PM
BTW, for anyone who liked this, let me point out that the Bible all tells Christians not to be "troublesome meddlers." In other words, they are very emphatically supposed to mind their own business and leave everyone else alone.
My observation is that there seem to be two types of Christians (this probably applies to all religions). You have your genuine spiritual Christians who try to live by following the teachings of Christ. These tend to be fairly rare, at least as far as being in the public view goes. Then you have your Christian supremacists. Following the teachings of Christ is something that is only done by accident. What they really try to do is force "Christian" law upon others, everyone should live and work in a proscribed manner, determined by that particular sect, and anyone who does not is to be condemned. This is more an authoritarian thing, it is easier to control people if they are behaving predictably. It depends greatly on cognitive dissonance, the flock bleating thoughtlessly ("Four legs good, two legs better!") repeating the commands of the leaders, and backed by selectively using aspects of their dogma as needed and ignoring anything that contradicts. That dogma becomes all important, it is important to force others to accept it, even the contradictory parts, in order to better be able to use it for even greater control.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Monday November 09 2015, @06:49PM
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