Originally posted by Astner
It's kind of difficult to be immoral when you don't have morals.
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.
Originally posted by Surtur
Are you sure this is the stance you want to take? Since for me the comment didn't actually seem to specify if he is saying religious kids have no morals or if secular kids have no morals.BTW I ask again why you keep calling the teacher an atheist?
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.
Originally posted by Van Hohenheim
Speaking of morals...has anyone made a threat about the paper that came out indicating that religious kids are less moral than secular kids?
Are you referring to this?
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