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HuckleB

(35,773 posts)
Thu Nov 5, 2015, 03:26 PM Nov 2015

Religious kids are harsher and less generous than atheist ones, study says [View all]

http://www.oregonlive.com/faith/2015/11/religious_kids_are_harsher_and.html

"When it comes to teaching kids the Golden Rule, Sunday school might not be the best bet.

A new study in the journal Current Biology found children in religious households are significantly less generous than their non-religious peers.

At the same time, religious parents were more likely than non-religious ones to consider their children empathetic and sensitive to the plight of others.

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This study challenges those attitudes. It was the children in non-religious homes most likely to be generous toward a stranger. The longer a child had lived in a religious home, the stingier he was compared to his secular peers.

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FWIW.

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