Comments on: Are Devoutly Religious Congregations More Racist?

By: theOneWithoutASecond

theOneWithoutASecond — Wed, 11 May 2011 11:49:20 +0000

lol what a joke of a study. The only problems with this study is that it’s based off America only (one of the most religious countries) and that it’s based off data from nearly 50 years ago when racism was more acceptable in society.

In modern times the most racist countries are the countries with the highest atheist populations like Sweden, Norway, Denmark, New Zealand, etc….

People just have to realize that basically all atheists are racists, except for non-white atheists and atheists living in areas with high Theist populations.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 10 May 2011 16:14:20 +0000

Hitler wasn’t an atheist. He was Catholic, and referenced God in some of his speeches.

By: meekness

meekness — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:06:35 +0000

not all religious people are prejudiced it depends on an individuals religious orientation i.e. what religion means to you and how you follow your religion, do you question it or no?? people who are more devout and onformist towards their religion are the ones who are more likely to be prejdiced that those who are not .

By: Gregory Laux

Gregory Laux — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:33:26 +0000

This woman and her colleagues should be fired for educational misconduct. They claim to analyze data that is mostly from one viewpoint, mostly Christians, and then they draw conclusions based upon their own personal biases and prejudices of Christians. The data being analyzed was garbage data and so the conclusions these supposed educated professors reached is also garbage. It just shows how the baby boomer generation produced lots of politically motivated scumbags who have little academic ability and no moral sense of honesty.

By: Zeke

Zeke — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:21:58 +0000

Luke, don’t be so dense. One cannot follow Christ’s teachings and be a racist. It is logically impossible. As a social psychologist who has done several research projects I would need to know their methods in detail, how they defined their terms (i.e. “devout”, “religous”, etc.) To be sure, there are those who claim to be “religious” or “Christian”, but pay little attention to Christ’s teachings. If the researchers’ definition of “religious” is simply being willing to claim the title, then their study is worthless. They need to properly define and explain the criteria they are using before conclusions can be drawn.

By: Roger A. Sawtelle

Roger A. Sawtelle — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:28:50 +0000

BTW Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot et al were atheists. Atheism is the professed belief of scientific Marxism. While their monstrous crimes against humanity do not in themselves mean that all atheists are evil, it should give give them something to think about instead of trying to gloss over this simple fact of history as Dawkins and the website sited above do.

This is especially true since some atheists claims the misdeeds of some Christians a reason for unbelief, even while saying that true Christians do not behave badly. There is no reason for true atheists not to behave badly.

Hitler was clearly an egomaniac. His crimes against the Jews were not religiously inspired, but inspired by his racist ideology that included superiority over all “non-Aryan” peoples.

When faced with defeat Hitler turned against the nation and people who had followed and supported him, rather than admit his responsibility for the disaster that he inflicted on Germany and the world.

By: AnotherProudAetheist

AnotherProudAetheist — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:28:47 +0000

I think Christians are the most prejudiced, unaccepting, holier-than-thou,narrow-minded people I have ever come across. Their attitude to now fairly normal things like abortion, homosexuals and immorality is ridiculous. Yes, you follow Jesus’ teachings, but that was thousands of years ago! Things have changed! Now, men and women have rights to choose their sexual preferences, and if they want this baby or not. You don’t *have* to follow a strict code of morals anymore, you can do what you like! And it doesn’t matter who or what you worship, we’re all equal.
America has a huge majority of Christians, who supposedly are true Christians. Yet they have racial problems between Black Americans and White Americans, who are mostly Christians. If they were true Christians, they would put aside their differences and accept them.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:26:23 +0000

People,
You don’t choose to “believe” findings. Results are results. the only real debate is over interpretations. This study reflects the consensus of 50 years of research consisting of hundreds of studies including different methodolgies from surveys to experiments with behavioral observations. More devoutly religious people are more racist than non-religious people. Get over it. Its a fact. If this review isn’t enough to convince you (not that that would be possible apparently using standards of evidence) find a psychology of religion textbook and look it up. Or better yet, read some of these comments on this threat. Let’s just say it once again: More devoutly religious people are more racist.

By: howrylo

howrylo — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:51:06 +0000

Really? So is this article racist because it singles out a sect of the culture? It also defines a certain people based on colour, religion, and the like…you see where this kind of thinking goes down hill and cannot stand in a rational argument? From the authors own words: “So perhaps it’s no surprise that the strongly religious people in our research, who were mostly white Christians, discriminated against others who were different from them”…wow really? Hmmm, who sounds racist? Just cut the crap everyone, if you cannot go out without your “feelings” being hurt (awww)just stay home till you grow up and can take it like an adult

By: Valerie Jane

Valerie Jane — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:51:32 +0000

Which studies did they pick? Was there a demographic involved? Did they separate the races in order to obtain the answer they want? Since the report itself does not say “white” or “black” how do we know there was a balanced grouping? (Wood even states it was imbalanced in her explanation) Was their some sort of control group? Where the studies picked primarily from the decades ago, how many were recent studies? What were the questions asked? Were the same questions asked through the years? Was there any statistical sampling done? Who defined the sampling?

Seriously – this is the worst study I have ever seen and I’ve seen, analyzed and studied many.