New Study: Atheism = Immorality

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Amusingly enough, the study also shows that atheists are more inclined to associate serial murder with atheism.
 
People do wrongly associate atheism with morality. They are correct in stating that atheism is not a pathway to morality since atheism has nothing to do with a moral question. It’s only a description about someone’s lack of belief in someone else’s claim about reality. That’s all it is. Atheism has nothing to do with moral questions.
Ex: Bob tells Jamie that Bob ran into Frank yesterday. Jamie asks Bob why he believed that person was Frank. Bob tells Jamie why he believes he met Bob yesterday and Jamie doesn’t believe that Bob actually met Frank.
Now, does Jamie’s lack of belief in that Bob met Frank yesterday have tell you anything at all about the moral system that Jamie uses or anything about morality at all? No, no it does not. Atheism is not a label that applies to moral questions at all.
Atheism is a single response to a single question. Do you believe that the supernatural exists? No, no they don’t. That has nothing to do with morality at all.
 
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People do wrongly associate atheism with morality. They are correct in stating that atheism is not a pathway to morality since atheism has nothing to do with a moral question. It’s only a description about someone’s lack of belief in someone else’s claim about reality. That’s all it is. Atheism has nothing to do with moral questions.
Ex: Bob tells Jamie that Bob ran into Frank yesterday. Jamie asks Bob why he believed that person was Frank. Bob tells Jamie why he believes he met Bob yesterday and Jamie doesn’t believe that Bob actually met Frank.
Now, does Jamie’s lack of belief in that Bob met Frank yesterday have tell you anything at all about the moral system that Jamie uses or anything about morality at all? No, no it does not. Atheism is not a label that applies to moral questions at all.
Atheism is a single response to a single question. Do you believe that the supernatural exists? No, no they don’t. That has nothing to do with morality at all.
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Well it wasn’t a poll on morality, just perception. Perception, wrongly I’d say, is that you have to be religious to be moral.
 
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