Religion Makes Children More Selfish

[ignoramus]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/20...e6eb68670e

The results revealed that secular children shared more stickers. Muslim children appear to be less generous than Christian kids, but this is not statistically significant (labelled ‘ns’ in the bar chart below). All three groups became less altruistic with age, though religious kids had lower generosity, suggesting that longer exposure to religion leads to less altruism

Why are religious people less moral? One factor is a psychological phenomenon known as ‘moral licensing’: a person will justify doing something bad or immoral – like being racist – because they’ve already done something ‘good’, such as praying. “It’s an unconscious bias,” Decety explains. “They don’t even see that’s not compatible with what they’ve been learning in church.”

Hehe, I do that all the time. I order a diet coke with my large meat lovers pizza to alleviate my guilt!

Are you guys surprised at all with this? I see it as just another unforseen negative byproduct of indoctrination.

[robvalue]

I'm not at all surprised.

I've noticed a strong negative correlation between the strength of religious convinction someone has and their morality, throughout my life.

Indoctrination is harmful, on multiple levels.