New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists

[Astonished]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scienc...19221.html

http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/28/scienc...religious/

Both sides are extremely close minded, just about different things is all.

'Extremely'? Fuck off with that bullshit. Per capita it's vastly skewed the opposite way they're claiming. Or is 'critical examination of the facts' considered to be the definition of closed-minded? A rational skeptic can't help but believe anything for which there is compelling evidence. Indoctrinating someone into a theistic tradition quite literally suspends this ability towards a broad spectrum of topics. Is wanting evidence of something that seems logically impossible, morally unsound and contrary to all other established knowledge really closed-minded or just yet another one of the many examples of how theists project their own intellectual and moral failings onto their opponents?

As I've said before, most atheists emerged from a faith tradition. They didn't reject it outright from the start, it had to fail to convince them at some point but was believed for at least some period of time. So how the fuck does closed-minded factor in there if they've by and large walked on both sides of the fence?

Aron Ra said it quite nicely: "While my mind is open, it is not EMPTY."