| Kasz216 said: and in those studies, they ALSO ran the numbers not counting church contributions... and the same patern persisted. It also persisted for blood donations, giving of time to causes... etc.
It's really remarkably non-controversial and really pretty much common sense regardless, since religions generally require acts of charity therefore the more religious you are, the more you will do charity even if you yourself aren't a default generous person.
Though in general it does seem the correlation extends beyond that. I imagine largely having to do with Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory and most atheists ending up on the specific "Liberal" branch. |
Yeah I'm surprised people are fighting this one so much. I guess maybe if you did this study for churches that don't ask for or mandate a tithe I would be more surprised, but the idea that people you condition to give 10% of their earnings to what you call "charity" every week are more likely to give to charity without needing to be prodded is pretty expected. I'm a tad surprised that after prodding the non-believers gave a higher percentage than the believers but I wouldn't be surprised if that difference is small enough to be within error for a study like this.
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