![]() ![]() The abstract for the 2011 journal article An atheistic American is a contradiction in terms”: Religion, Civic Belonging and Collective Identity in the United States published in the European Journal of American Studies indicates: Irving Berlin's song God Bless America is a popular American patriotic song written by Berlin in 1918. ![]() In addition, historically atheists have frequently behaved in an immoral manner (see: Atheist population and immorality) and various atheists have committed capital crimes (see: Atheism and Mass Murder and List of atheist shooters and serial killers). Ītheism is often associated with various types of immorality (see: Atheism and morality). ![]() The BBC declared in 2014: "A recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Centre shows Americans would rather have a president who was either in their 70s, or openly gay, or who had never held any public office than one that was atheist." (See: Atheism and politics). The new atheist Sam Harris said concerning the label of atheist, "It's right next to child molester as a designation." Even in places that are currently quite overtly secular, people still seem to intuitively hold on to the belief that religion is a moral safeguard.” “I suspect that this stems from the prevalence of deeply entrenched pro-religious norms. “It is striking that even atheists appear to hold the same intuitive anti-atheist bias,” study co-author Will Gervais, psychology professor at the University of Kentucky, tells AFP. He wrote, "I lately started to think that we need to go further: go beyond humorous ridicule, sharpen our barbs to a point where they really hurt." See also: Atheism and mockeryĬiting a study, which was published in the science journal Nature, on the public's perception of atheists the Smithsonian declares: The new atheist Richard Dawkins has encouraged his supporters to go beyond humorous ridicule. These findings demonstrate a prevalent intuition that belief in God serves a necessary function in inhibiting immoral conduct, and may help explain persistent negative perceptions of atheists. ![]() Even atheist participants judged immoral acts as more representative of atheists than of other groups. The abstract of a 2014 peer-reviewed study entitled Everything Is Permitted? People Intuitively Judge Immorality as Representative of Atheists which was published in the journal Plos One reported:Īmerican participants intuitively judged a wide variety of immoral acts (e.g., serial murder, consensual incest, necrobestiality, cannibalism) as representative of atheists, but not of eleven other religious, ethnic, and cultural groups. The abstract for the 2016 journal article entitled Atheism and how it is perceived: Manipulation of, bias against and ways to reduce the bias which was published in the journal Nordic Psychology indicates: ".atheists are distrusted, elicit disgust and are viewed as immoral both explicitly and implicitly". According to a study published in the International Journal for The Psychology of Religion: "anti-atheist prejudice is not confined either to dominantly religious countries or to religious individuals, but rather appears to be a robust judgment about atheists." The study found that many atheists do not trust other atheists as well. Ĭoncerning the stigma of atheism, sociological research indicates that atheists are widely distrusted in both religious cultures and nonreligious cultures (see: Distrust of atheists and Views on atheists). The new atheist Sam Harris said concerning the label of atheist, "It's right next to child molester as a designation."(see also: Views on atheists). ![]()
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