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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] You're now jumping to racial intolerance?

Your mind works in a very odd way.[/quote]

Atheist PP, it's called an analogy.

Minds that don't grasp analogies do work in very odd ways.
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Not odd, but very predictable. Atheist troll's whole MO is to pick arguments. If she needs to twist meanings around to fake being offended, so be it.[/quote]

no - not picking arguments

I'm simply pointing out the weaknesses in religion.

If you need an ancient text to guide you, then you have no self-management.  I don't need to be told to honor my father and mother.  That's a given for me - but not necessarily a given for people raised in abusive households now, is it?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/our-humanity-naturally/201103/misinformation-and-facts-about-secularism-and-religion
Misinformation and facts about secularism and religion:  Even smart people perpetuate untruths about atheism and religion

[quote]Fortunately for atheists, agnostics, and secular humanists, there is no factual basis for Plante's claim that "research has consistently found" secular individuals to be more prone to such antisocial behavior. Consider, for example, a March 2009 academic article in Sociology Compass that extensively researched the subjects raised by Plante. The article, by Phil Zuckerman of Pitzer College, is entitled "Atheism, Secularity, and Well-Being: How the Findings of Social Science Counter Negative Stereotypes and Assumptions" and, unlike Plante's article, it cites detailed studies of the areas in question.[/quote]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-atheists-we-distrust/

[quote]It wasn’t just the highly religious participants who expressed a distrust of atheists. People identifying themselves as having no religious affiliation held similar opinions. Gervais and his colleagues discovered that people distrust atheists because of the [b]belief that people behave better when they think that God is watching over them. This belief may have some truth to it. Gervais and his colleague Ara Norenzayan have found that reminding people about God’s presence has the same effect as telling people they are being watched by others: it increases their feelings of self-consciousness [/b]and leads them to behave in more socially acceptable ways[/quote]

[quote]Gervais and Norenzayan’s findings may shed light on an interesting puzzle: why acceptance towards atheism has grown rapidly in some countries but not others. In many Scandinavian countries, including Norway and Sweden, the number of people who report believing in God has reached an all-time low. This may have something to do with the way these countries have established governments that guarantee a high level of social security for all of their citizens.  Aaron Kay and his colleagues ran a study in Canada which found that political insecurity may push us towards believing in God. They gave participants two versions of a fictitious news story: one describing Canada’s current political situation as stable, the other describing it as potentially unstable. After reading one of the two articles, people’s beliefs in God were measured. People who read the article describing the government as potentially unstable were more likely to agree that God, or some other type of nonhuman entity, is in control of the universe. A common belief in the divine may help people feel more secure. Yet when security is achieved by more secular means, it may remove some of the draw of faith.[/quote]

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