How ironic. A group with no morals has more moral than people with morals.
It's okay, though. You were probably raised by theists that told you secular people have no morals, being a naive boy - you never questioned this.
I forgive your fooly misjudgement. Hopefully one day you get a step closer to thinking like a scientist and learn how to question commonplace assertions.
Because it fits his agenda, if he acknowledges that the teacher is a Christian herself, then he can't use the "immoral atheist attack Christianity" card.
Children from religious families are less kind and more punitive than those from non-religious households, according to a new study.
Academics from seven universities across the world studied Christian, Muslim and non-religious children to test the relationship between religion and morality.
They found that religious belief is a negative influence on children’s altruism.
"Overall, our findings ... contradict the commonsense and popular assumption that children from religious households are more altruistic and kind towards others,” said the authors of The Negative Association Between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism Across the World, published this week in Current Biology.
"More generally, they call into question whether religion is vital for moral development, supporting the idea that secularisation of moral discourse will not reduce human kindness – in fact, it will do just the opposite." -endsnip
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