{"id":15059,"date":"2011-12-02T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15059"},"modified":"2011-12-02T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T14:29:00","slug":"survey-finds-that-atheists-are-perceived-as-untrustworthy-as-rapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/survey-finds-that-atheists-are-perceived-as-untrustworthy-as-rapists\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey finds that atheists are perceived as untrustworthy as rapists"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Atheists are almost universally perceived as untrustworthy, and only rapists rate as low, a new study has found.<\/p>\n

“Where there are religious majorities — that is, in most of the world — atheists are among the least trusted people,” said lead author Will Gervais, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of British Columbia. “With more than half a billion atheists worldwide, this prejudice has the potential to affect a substantial number of people.”<\/p>\n

The study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, combines information collected from six different surveys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This should not come as a surprise.<\/p>\n

After all, if atheists are correct and there is no God, then trustworthiness is merely a genetic accident which would generally be overridden by the callous self-interest that inevitably results from natural selection \u2013 and who better to indulge callous self-interest than those who wholeheartedly embrace this view.<\/p>\n

If atheists are not correct and there is a God, why trust a group of people who base their entire lives and behaviour on a monumental error of judgement?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From here: Atheists are almost universally perceived as untrustworthy, and only rapists rate as low, a new study has found. “Where there are religious majorities — that is, in most of the world — atheists are among the least trusted … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2049],"class_list":["post-15059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-atheism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}