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New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 11, 2017 at 11:53 am
(July 11, 2017 at 11:33 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Just a notion... but does anybody else notice that a number of comments seem apt to the study?

Could your religious beliefs be wrong?
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 11, 2017 at 4:31 pm
(July 11, 2017 at 11:53 am)Cyberman Wrote:
(July 11, 2017 at 11:33 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Just a notion... but does anybody else notice that a number of comments seem apt to the study?

Could your religious beliefs be wrong?

Sure, I've been wrong before....could be again!  But I look at things more closely, than I used to.

Personally, I don't put a lot of stock in these type of social science studies.   One contradicts another.   I just thought it interesting; how much some comments demonstrate the conclusion.
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 12, 2017 at 5:06 am (This post was last modified: July 12, 2017 at 5:07 am by ignoramus.)
If by meaning we don't tolerate bullshit too well, then yeah, we're close minded to illogical hypotheticals and fairy tales ...Life's too short! (pardon the religious irony!)
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 12, 2017 at 9:28 am
Reading the study more carefully, it seems to support the contention that atheists are less likely to change their minds after obtaining actual evidence that genuinely supports a particular conclusion.
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 12, 2017 at 12:58 pm
Sounds like a reasonable response. I up the requirements when dealing with fundamentally dishonest people - if one tells me the sky is blue, I look up and then ask what's their agenda.

My time is valuable and I hate wasting it on credulous fools when it could be put to better use entertaining the non-fool demographic.

Being skeptical doesn't mean one treats everyone with the same amount of deference - have Alex Jones put forth something truthful and all I could say is that a broken clock may be right twice a day but it is wrong the other 86,398 instances of time normalized to the seconds boundary.
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 12, 2017 at 1:59 pm
@Researcher in OP whose name I cannot pronounce:
Toddlers are overwhelmingly more open-minded than most adults, don't be a toddler, grow up!
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 13, 2017 at 4:15 am
(July 12, 2017 at 1:59 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: @Researcher in OP whose name I cannot pronounce:
Toddlers are overwhelmingly more open-minded than most adults, don't be a toddler, grow up!

Sadly, that's the only way indoctrination can work.
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 13, 2017 at 5:01 pm
The only reason theists are allowed to come here talking shit is because we are tolerant.

I rest my case.
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 13, 2017 at 5:37 pm
I wonder how we atheists would be treated on these Christian message boards.

Would we be welcomed with open arms? Somehow, I doubt it.
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 13, 2017 at 5:42 pm
(July 13, 2017 at 5:37 pm)Cecelia Wrote: I wonder how we atheists would be treated on these Christian message boards.  

Would we be welcomed with open arms?  Somehow, I doubt it.

Depends on the site, but usually not.
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