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masukuma		#1 Posted : Wednesday, November 11, 2015 5:39:57 PM
Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,821 Location: Nairobi		The study included 1,200 children, ages 5-12, from various countries like Turkey, Canada, US, China, Jordan, and South Africa. About 24% of the children were Christian, 42% were Muslim, and 27.6% were non-religious. Children from other religions like Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism had a percentage too small to measure. The children were shown films of kids “pushing and bumping one another” to gauge their responses to aggression. They were also given stickers and told there were not enough for everyone in order to gauge the child’s compassion and empathy for others The findings: Quote: “..robustly demonstrate that children from households identifying as either of the two major world religions (Christianity and Islam) were less altruistic than children from non-religious households.” The selfish little brats who kept all the stickers for themselves tended to be the kids who came from a religious household. Also, the children who had been exposed to religion for the longest amounts of time tested far more negatively than children who had less experience with organized thinking. Those children tended to judge others and expect penalties for the actions of peers. It’s worth mentioning that Muslim children expected far worse penalties for their peers than Christians. the study is to be found here All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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tycho		#2 Posted : Wednesday, November 11, 2015 6:11:03 PM
Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi		It must be so hard to believe and practice the faith for so many 'religious people'- especially the major religions. The war against faith in popular culture is so intense, one shouldn't be surprised that these poor kids who are yet to develop their mind capacities, can be so aggressive. Pause and think, how scientific is this 'study'? Well, I know for sure that in a scientific study the conditions under which an experiment is taking place are to be carefully determined, controlled, replicated and that kind of thing. What are the conditions in which this study was made? They haven't been described. Why? This is a piece of propaganda being circulated, bearing the stamp of 'science' but is in fact something else. What is it? As the world order is changing, so must the metaphors of the past be changed. The conditions for this study are taken for granted as homogeneous and simple because that is conducive for political motives.
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