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Kasz216 on 03 May 2013
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dsgrue3 said:
Kasz216 said:

Because people want stuff?

Of course that said... while an atheist can be as moral as a religious person... research has shown on average, they aren't, and that on average the less religious you are the more prodding that is needed to get you to help others. 

 

Those late night abused animals and African children commercials more or less exist specifically because of atheists and unobserving religious folk.

Source?

Do you have university research journal access?   If so i suppose i can dig through it to find that particular article again.  Otherwise you are just going to be stuck behind a paywall anyway.

It's mostly all very bland consumer research for nonprofit organizations... that's been consistant... for pretty much forever.

To Paraphrase one of the most recent cases of research...

 

 They gave people 10 dollars.  Then either showed them a short video about nonsense, or a short video about starving kids in africa....

 

Then were told they give some of the money they had just received to charity to feed starving kids in africa.

 

In both cases religious people I want to say gave ~3.5 dollars.   While Atheists when shown the nonsense video gave ~.60 cents..  while when shown the video gave ~4 dollars.  (Numbers could be off, but the proportions are about the same.)

 

General conclusion being that people without a religious backing more often need to be hit with a sudden urge of intense compassion, while more religious people seem to give regardless, be it out of duty, having the thoughts of the unfortunate more on their minds, or just more "we're all in this together" cohesiveness.