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koriwhore
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Date: January 09, 2018 03:52PM
Atari Wrote:
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> Honestly, the best people I know are atheist.
> Religions have propagated the myth that the world
> needs them.
Unfortunately in America "atheists" are less trusted than rapists.
https://www.thoughtco.com/atheists-trusted-less-than-rapists-248477The researchers were looking to compare how often people mistrust four groups: Christian, Muslim, rapist, and atheist:
Christian: 4%
Muslim: 15%
Rapist: 46%
Atheist: 48%
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-atheists-we-distrust/"Will Gervais at the University of British Columbia recently published a set of studies looking at why atheists are so disliked. His conclusion: It comes down to trust.
Gervais and his colleagues presented participants with a story about a person who accidentally hits a parked car and then fails to leave behind valid insurance information for the other driver. Participants were asked to choose the probability that the person in question was a Christian, a Muslim, a rapist, or an atheist. They thought it equally probable the culprit was an atheist or a rapist, and unlikely the person was a Muslim or Christian. In a different study, Gervais looked at how atheism influences people’s hiring decisions. People were asked to choose between an atheist or a religious candidate for a job requiring either a high or low degree of trust. For the high-trust job of daycare worker, people were more likely to prefer the religious candidate. For the job of waitress, which requires less trust, the atheists fared much better.
It wasn’t just the highly religious participants who expressed a distrust of atheists. People identifying themselves as having no religious affiliation held similar opinions. Gervais and his colleagues discovered that people distrust atheists because of the belief that people behave better when they think that God is watching over them. This belief may have some truth to it. Gervais and his colleague Ara Norenzayan have found that reminding people about God’s presence has the same effect as telling people they are being watched by others: it increases their feelings of self-consciousness and leads them to behave in more socially acceptable ways."
I think this is due in large part to the lingering effects of the "Red Scare" when 'atheist' became synonymous with "Godless Pinko Commie" in America, thanks to atheists like Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Kim Jung Un, the unfortunate list goes on, and on.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/09/2018 03:57PM by koriwhore.