{"id":15662,"date":"2017-08-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/08\/10\/atheists-tend-to-be-seen-as-immoral-even-by-other-atheists-study\/"},"modified":"2017-08-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T12:00:00","slug":"atheists-tend-to-be-seen-as-immoral-even-by-other-atheists-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/08\/10\/atheists-tend-to-be-seen-as-immoral-even-by-other-atheists-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheists Tend to Be Seen as Immoral &#8211; Even by Other Atheists: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/aug\/07\/anti-atheist-prejudice-secularity\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FRANCE, August 7, 2017 (The guardian): Atheists are more easily suspected of evil deeds than Christians, Muslims, Hindus or Buddhists &#8212; even by fellow atheists, according to the authors of a new study. The finding suggests that in an increasingly secular world, many &#8212; including some atheists &#8212; still hold the view that people will do bad things unless they fear punishment from all-seeing gods. The results of the study &#8220;show that across the world, religious belief is intuitively viewed as a necessary safeguard against the temptations of grossly immoral conduct,&#8221; an international team wrote in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. It revealed that &#8220;atheists are broadly perceived as potentially morally depraved and dangerous&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The study measured the attitudes of more than 3,000 people in 13 countries on five continents. They ranged from &#8220;very secular&#8221; countries such as China and the Netherlands, to those with high numbers of religious believers, such as the United Arab Emirates, the US and India. &#8220;It is striking that even atheists appear to hold the same intuitive anti-atheist bias,&#8221; the study&#8217;s co-author, Will Gervais, a psychology professor at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source FRANCE, August 7, 2017 (The guardian): Atheists are more easily suspected of evil deeds than Christians, Muslims, Hindus or,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}