Athiests put less value on love than believers: study

[Jordan_Francis]

Athiests put less value on love than believers: study

A new Canadian survey has found that believers are more likely than atheists to place a higher value on love, patience and friendship, in findings the researcher says could be a warning that Canadians need a religious basis to retain civility in society.

canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=3e458112-a9b6-4ec9-9a53-32bff67efdd0&k=0

What I found interesting was the atheist response:

“To me, scientific thinking is a value. Critical thinking is a value. Open inquiry is my biggest value,” said Mr. Trottier. “If he made those values - the way atheists would - he would have gotten different responses.”

Obviously critical thinking and scientific inquiry are healthy values for anyone to have. If these had been added to the survey the headline would instead read “atheists value scientific inquiry over forgiveness” and they would be sounding equally as cold. Regardless if “scientific inquiry” is on the survey or not you would hope that everyone would be selecting these universal values as “very important”.

It’s only one study, so who can say. I just thought the article was interesting and found the athesit’s comments particularly odd.