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Atheists more compassionate than the highly religious.
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RE: Atheists more compassionate than the highly religious.
May 3, 2012 at 10:10 pm
(May 2, 2012 at 2:51 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: A scientific study that shows what most of us have suspected for quite a while.

Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers.
How exactly do you test compassion? BTW aren't like 99% of scientists atheists? (go figure)

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RE: Atheists more compassionate than the highly religious.
May 3, 2012 at 10:13 pm
As to why there needed to be a study on this, I don't know. After all, we're not the ones telling children that if they don't believe then they're going to hell.
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RE: Atheists more compassionate than the highly religious.
May 3, 2012 at 10:18 pm
(May 3, 2012 at 10:10 pm)Abishalom Wrote:
(May 2, 2012 at 2:51 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: A scientific study that shows what most of us have suspected for quite a while.

Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers.
How exactly do you test compassion? BTW aren't like 99% of scientists atheists? (go figure)

The group which does NOT tie other people to stakes and set them on fire tends to be the more compassionate one.
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RE: Atheists more compassionate than the highly religious.
May 3, 2012 at 10:24 pm
(May 2, 2012 at 2:51 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: A scientific study that shows what most of us have suspected for quite a while.

Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers.

Towards whom?
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RE: Atheists more compassionate than the highly religious.
May 3, 2012 at 10:28 pm
(May 3, 2012 at 10:18 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
(May 3, 2012 at 10:10 pm)Abishalom Wrote: How exactly do you test compassion? BTW aren't like 99% of scientists atheists? (go figure)

The group which does NOT tie other people to stakes and set them on fire tends to be the more compassionate one.

Well I agree.
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RE: Atheists more compassionate than the highly religious.
May 3, 2012 at 11:13 pm



Well thank God. I finally have an explanation for why I'm such a heartless bitch.
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RE: Atheists more compassionate than the highly religious.
May 4, 2012 at 12:55 am
Wait WHAT WHAT?!?!? Confusedhock:

I'm so confused. I thought christians provided us with all our social conscience and kindness?? I thought they were our only gauge for measuring our own morality and without them we'd all start raping and killing eachother??

I thought christians were the only reason women don't get raped by missionaries and children don't get molested in churches ............... oh wait ........... nevermind.

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RE: Atheists more compassionate than the highly religious.
May 4, 2012 at 4:18 pm
I don't think compassion/lack of compassion is the same axis as theist/atheist. I think you can get theists who are compassionate, and theists who aren't, and the same goes for atheists. Same with intelligent/stupid - there are theists and atheists in both camps.

I happen to be a liberal, pluralist, tolerant theist, and I have far more in common with liberal, pluralist, tolerant atheists than I do with nut-nut religious types. I think the whole dividing line of this thread is wrong.
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RE: Atheists more compassionate than the highly religious.
May 4, 2012 at 4:22 pm
God point, colin but it is what we do here.

Give it some time. Some jesus or allah freak will say something terribly stupid and you'll know what i mean.
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RE: Atheists more compassionate than the highly religious.
May 4, 2012 at 4:27 pm
ColinClout1972 Wrote:I don't think compassion/lack of compassion is the same axis as theist/atheist. I think you can get theists who are compassionate, and theists who aren't, and the same goes for atheists. Same with intelligent/stupid - there are theists and atheists in both camps

Absolutely correct, but you'll notice in the article that the dividing line is not actually between atheist and theist. It is between the highly religious and those that are either a little religious or none at all.
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