RE: Atheists more compassionate than the highly religious.
May 2, 2012 at 5:34 pm
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2012 at 5:39 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 2, 2012 at 3:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: I might have to go with FNM. Lack of moral responsibility takes away the need for compassion.
I think in many cases it is the other way around.
Lack of moral responsibility enables one to embrace aburdities just because it makes one feel good.
(May 2, 2012 at 5:31 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: I think the believers are less compassionate, because they exist in a state of feeling morally superior. It's easy to have low compassion levels for people that aren't as 'worthy' as yourself.
Do they therefore feel somewhat higher compassion levels for people they deem to be as saved as they themselves are? I doubt it. Their average compassion for their co-superstitionists seem to extend no further than empty mutural congratulations.
I think it is not christianity that facilitated their low compassion levels. Rather it is the same moral deformity that menifested itself in a native lack of compassion that smoothed their paths to christianity.
