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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 8, 2017 at 1:18 pm
(July 8, 2017 at 9:39 am)Lutrinae Wrote: Quote:Religious people are more tolerant of different viewpoints than atheists, according to researchers at a Catholic university.
A study of 788 people in the UK, France and Spain concluded that atheists and agnostics think of themselves as more open-minded than those with faith, but are are actually less tolerant to differing opinions and ideas.
Religious believers "seem to better perceive and integrate diverging perspectives", according to psychology researchers at the private Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium's largest French-speaking university.
Filip Uzarevic, who co-wrote the paper, said his message was that "closed-mindedness is not necessarily found only among the religious".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scienc...19221.html
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/28/scienc...religious/ HA! (snort) Religious institutions don't understand "skewed scientific studies" (they don't understand scientific studies at all actually) or "fake news" because religious institutions have BEEN "fake news" for millennia. They are now confused because people want PROOF. What? Their whole system is built on "we said it, therefore it's true".
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 8, 2017 at 1:30 pm
(July 8, 2017 at 1:14 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: My parents are Catholic, and sadly, my dad believes everything coming out of the Vatican. Lol Doubtful, a more accurate description would most likely be that he believed that the vatican agreed with whatever was falling out of his headholes. We (and mother church) see time and time again that catholics don't seem to have a solid grasp on what Cathol says.
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 8, 2017 at 1:36 pm
OP: Ah, this explains their tolerance for clergy pedophilia. Thanks.
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 8, 2017 at 2:11 pm
(July 8, 2017 at 1:30 pm)BKhemikal Wrote: (July 8, 2017 at 1:14 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: My parents are Catholic, and sadly, my dad believes everything coming out of the Vatican. Lol Doubtful, a more accurate description would most likely be that he believed that the vatican agreed with whatever was falling out of his headholes. We (and mother church) see time and time again that catholics don't seem to have a solid grasp on what Cathol says.

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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 8, 2017 at 2:20 pm
(July 8, 2017 at 9:39 am)Lutrinae Wrote: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scienc...19221.html
Well I see your problem right there, you've decided to read a digital "newspaper" which a few years ago decided to ditch all it's staff and depend on press releases and listicles for its content. It's not yet quite as bad as the HeilOnline but it's getting there.
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 8, 2017 at 6:28 pm
Does this op strike anyone else as odd?
A theist is accusing atheists of going through the narrow gate, while the theists claim to go through the broad gate.
Well, I think I'll just turn the other cheek. or has that also become a vice when atheists do it?
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 8, 2017 at 7:19 pm
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 8, 2017 at 9:14 pm
(July 8, 2017 at 6:28 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Does this op strike anyone else as odd?
A theist is accusing atheists of going through the narrow gate, while the theists claim to go through the broad gate.
Well, I think I'll just turn the other cheek. or has that also become a vice when atheists do it?
It was always a virtue for the choirboys, hard to see why they'd object.
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 8, 2017 at 9:32 pm
(July 8, 2017 at 9:39 am)Lutrinae Wrote: Quote:Religious people are more tolerant of different viewpoints than atheists, according to researchers at a Catholic university.
A study of 788 people in the UK, France and Spain concluded that atheists and agnostics think of themselves as more open-minded than those with faith, but are are actually less tolerant to differing opinions and ideas.
Religious believers "seem to better perceive and integrate diverging perspectives", according to psychology researchers at the private Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium's largest French-speaking university.
Filip Uzarevic, who co-wrote the paper, said his message was that "closed-mindedness is not necessarily found only among the religious".
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.
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RE: New Study: atheists are less open-minded than theists
July 8, 2017 at 10:18 pm
I could see the necessity of the church poohbahs fostering some open mindedness in the lead up to the 180 degree course change the church was going to take on divorce/remarriage/adultery.
Having the pew warmers rise up and smite church leaders either for having made them live unnecessarily chaste for so long, or to finally succumbing to Satan's licentiousness, the church's change in dogma could have been quite a violent brouhaha.
As it played out, there was nary a whimper. Curiously, I'm the only one in the country wondering why there wasn't a flag on the play . . .
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