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Study: Atheists distrusted as much as rapists
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Damn..
Pretty much.
Except the question would make no sense if two of the options were entirely superfluous. It's likely they assumed it was not a trick question and that the most general option should be chosen only if there's not a more specific option that covers it.
frankie_baby
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what about atheist rapist teachers?
they just call them atheist teachers
they moan "OH MY GOD THAT DOESN'T EXIST" when they blow a load in their students
There's a war on religion folks. Just look around you. People of faith are just so persecuted.
Oy.
That makes me kinda sad.
site was 503ing so evilore probably shut them off to save bandwidth
Yep, I was wondering about this myself.
It's because of some gaming side hijinks.
speculawyer
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Provocative image. But what is the message? We need to get people to believe something we have no evidence for because we think it will make them less likely to be criminals?
The jails are filled with believers.
ZackieChan
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New study: GAFfers distrusted more than atheists. And rapists. And Hitler.
Alligatorjandro
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What does an atheist look like?
That's exactly what the faithful preach. If you aren't afraid of eternal damnation, then you can't be afraid if mortal damnation.
Yes, jails are filled with God fearing people. That doesn't compute with other religious people. You see, to them belief in God can ONLY be a GOOD thing.
It's the highest form of hypocrisy.
Oh, but a fellow believer who does something that lands them in jail wasn't a true believer.
That was just an aside, me reflecting on what could be more than anything else.
I Should have clarified that.
Chuckie
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Cool...there is a movement? Because I'm an atheist and so are 80% of the people I know but so far we have never had the urge to group and make a movement to oppose non-atheists.
Anyway..nice research...so you have [blank], atheist and rapist... appearantly a theist is already above suspicion according to this research... and atheists are ranked below rapists... because you never know... the rapist might believe in God so will never take that money
milanbaros
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Yep, logic should be teacher>athiest teacher>rapist teacher.
Saying the teacher is more likely to be an athiest rather than a rapist says as much about statistics than your opinions of these types of people.
Ask the same question in DR Congo. The answer statistically would probably rapist.
770 people is too small a sample? Could I see your math, because based on the equations I'm using, for a 5% error rate 19 times out of 20, that's more than sufficient for a population of 330,000,000.
A better criticism is that their sampling is not even remotely random. The population of North America is not half composed of Canadian college students.
Ivan A Nguyen
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Both are after your innocence and it's a power trip. I can see how this is true.
Ether_Snake
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Only in America.
And maybe third world countries.
And maybe third world countries.
If you mean the overall continent, than you have a point. If you mean the US, most of the test subjects were Canadian.
Well this is a pretty bleak reflection on the state of religion in America and Canada.
It's kind of comforting to know the results would be very different in Australia, but it's still disappointing to hear that so many people don't trust me just because I don't believe in whatever their personal preference of deity is.
It's kind of comforting to know the results would be very different in Australia, but it's still disappointing to hear that so many people don't trust me just because I don't believe in whatever their personal preference of deity is.
As a young, Canadian atheist, I've never encountered this. I think the study methodology is probably just garbage. At the very least, their evidence does not support the stated conclusion.
Ela Hadrun
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Convert to Christianity so.... so.... hm. How does that keep the guy from shooting me?
Like, should I convert to Christianity so that, in the future, I kill fewer hostages?
BoobPhysics101
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The LOL's, they did ensue.
If I remember correctly from elementary school, armour goes in a hierarchy:
- God armour
- Quantum armour
- Steel plate
- Iron plate
- Chainmail
EDIT: Though, beware someone who has 'God bullets'. They can punch through any armour.
Angelus Errare
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Holy shit! Where is that rockclap.gif? I'm in stitches over here
Atramental
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If people have such a fundamental misunderstanding of atheism that they think Stalin is an example of an atheist, then I can start to understand the results of this survey.
Just random wiki'ing, but:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#Religion
There is also stuff about science suppression as well.
EDIT: I can understand the view that he made the communist party similar to that of a religion like Mao (though I do not agree with it).
More Fun To Compute
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I also heard that vegetarians are more likely to kill jews than fascist anti-semites.
Wow, who is this asshole? (the cartoonist).That cartoonist is just a dick, please don't post that guy's cartoons.
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