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Children from religious families are less generous and altruistic than their atheist contempories, a study has suggested

According to research published in Current Biology, those who were Christian and Muslim - other religions were not assessed - agreed with harsher punishments, were less generous when sharing and had a tendency to correct others.

Jean Decety, a neuroscientist at the University of Chicago, who looked at more than 1,000 children from around the world, said religion can encourage people to act badly because they think they have already done something "good" - like praying - at another time.

This is called "moral licensing", said Professor Decety.

"It’s an unconscious bias. They don’t even see that’s not compatible with what they’ve been learning in church," he said, according to Forbes.

Two tests were carried out to assess the levels of altruism and meanness in the five- to 12-year-olds. In the first, secular children, Christian children and Muslim children were all asked to share 30 stickers with another child - with children of no religion sharing more stickers with others.
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In the second test, the children watched videos of someone mildly pushing or shoving someone else and were asked to rate how "mean" the action was, and the level of appropriate punishment.

Compared to the other two groups, Muslims thought harmful actions were meaner and believed in harsher punishment. Christians judged the harm to be meaner than secular children - though there was no difference in their punitive ratings.

Yet religious parents believed, when questioned, that their child would be more altruistic than their faithless counterparts - appearing to be proven wrong in this study.

Religion may lead children to be more fixed in their view of what is right and wrong, and less ethical when considering different situations, the study concluded.

www.independent.co.uk/news/science/religious-children-are-more-selfish-than-atheist-children-say-us-neuroscientists-a6723596.html

So, moral licencing, you folk seem to learn it as kids.

No wonder you're wicked and incorrigible...

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sh*it #igbe

Atheism is a religion so far people believe in it, you don't have to worship something to believe you have a religion hence the premise for this article is vague!

Morality over any religion. Morality is a natural phenomenon of differentiating from right to wrong irrespective of being told.

Dirkcoyt:
Atheism is a religion so far people believe in it, you don't have to worship something to believe you have a religion hence the premise for this article is vague!

Morality over any religion. Morality is a natural phenomenon of differentiating from right to wrong irrespective of being told.

I agree with your first sentence.

The morality of Jesus was so far ahead of its time that 2,000 years after Jesus brought it to this planet, modern society is still no closer to attaining it. 'Go the extra mile ....
bless those who curse you .... It is more blessed to give than to receive ...' Present day morality, with its crude focus upon
observable behavior rather than heart attitude, is hopelessly primitive and out of touch with reality. Consider these examples:

'Anything is OK as long as you don't hurt anyone,' says a man who wouldn't dream of injuring his wife,
and devastates her by cheating on her.

The Road to Righteousness is Selfishness. The Road to Understanding is Ignorance. Atheist Children are simply ignorant and self centered while Religious Children have Understanding and always know that The Right is always right. Religious Children have The Faith in their genes. This makes them hopeful. Atheist Children have no faith and so they are hopeless and always silly.

story for the Gods

orisa37:
The Road to Righteousness is Selfishness. The Road to Understanding is Ignorance. Atheist Children are simply ignorant and self centered while Religious Children have Understanding and always know that The Right is always right. Religious Children have The Faith in their genes. This makes them hopeful. Atheist Children have no faith and so they are hopeless and always silly.

thank you for demonstrating the religious spirit described in the op so clearly

No wonder there are religious and religion-inspired charities in every corner of the globe but we can't find Atheist charities anywhere.

Are the so-called "generous" children not making it to adulthood?

Lies!

italo:
No wonder there are religious and religion-inspired charities in every corner of the globe but we can't find Atheist charities anywhere.

Are the so-called "generous" children not making it to adulthood?

Lies!

Can you prove that you 'can't find atheist charities anywhere'?

wiegraf:


Can you prove that you 'can't find atheist charities anywhere'?

Bro i think this is a Burden of proof reversal..

He doesn't need to prove to you there are no Atheist charities, its you that is supposed to prove if there is not ask the person who have tendency of doubt to provide proof for the negate..

Great find.

Moral licensing also explains why so many adult Christians perform horrible actions and show no remorse. Because they are forgiven by God, why do they need any human forgiveness?

It reminds me of an earlier post by johnydon22 I believe, addressing how the displacement of apologies and remorse that should be given to the humans who have been wronged, to the fictitious god entity instead (through prayer), is a major source of social malfunctioning amongst believers.

wiegraf:


Can you prove that you 'can't find atheist charities anywhere'?

Can you prove that I can find atheist charities anywhere?

The role of religion is to strip you off your humanity and turn you into a meat-robot with no free will. I think it is a silly question to ask if there are any Atheist Charity.

If you believe someone is a bad person just because they are nonreligious, you are so naive

italo:


Can you prove that I can find atheist charities anywhere?

Can you prove that I can't prove that you can't prove $hit?

johnydon22:
Bro i think this is a Burden of proof reversal..[/b]

He doesn't need to prove to you there are no Atheist charities, its you that is supposed to prove if there is not ask the person who have tendency of doubt to provide proof for the negate..

Ahh, you're not familiar with italo, I see

Medicine, taste, someone

cloudgoddess:
Great find.

Moral licensing also explains why so many adult Christians perform horrible actions and show no remorse. Because they are forgiven by God, why do they need any human forgiveness?

It reminds me of an earlier post by johnydon22 I believe, addressing how the displacement of apologies and remorse that should be given to the humans who have been wronged, to the fictitious god entity instead (through prayer), is a major source of social malfunctioning amongst believers.

Oga pastoraio also highlighted these

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment


Another form of 'licensing', in a sense, but somewhat different I think

You could say they tend to go hand in hand

wiegraf:


Can you prove that you 'can't find atheist charities anywhere'?

U have decided to take on your challenge of finding atheist charities.
I have not found true Atheist charities anywhere. If Atheist's give it is always with deadly motives., mostly for tax relief and self-recognition.

The Atheist mind-set is brain-washed with concepts of self. To them the greatest love of all is, to love your self. Full stop.

Selfishness incorporates Righteousness. And when you love yourself as Christ loves you, you can't but conflict with Atheists views, cos they don't know Jesus.