Religion and race study

[RCresearch]

Hello,

I invite you to participate in my study. This project is an important part of my training in counseling psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. Click on the following link for a full description of my study.

devtc3.tc.columbia.edu/surveys/religion/index.cfm

Thank you very much for your time.

Yours,
Matthew Siegel
PhD Student
Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology
Teachers College, Columbia University

 

[Mike_D30]

RCresearch:

Hello,

I invite you to participate in my study. This project is an important part of my training in counseling psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. Click on the following link for a full description of my study.

devtc3.tc.columbia.edu/surveys/religion/index.cfm

Thank you very much for your time.

Yours,
Matthew Siegel
PhD Student
Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology
Teachers College, Columbia University

Those questions are very loaded, it’s very hard for me to answer them for instance you say:

4 - It is more important to be a good person than to believe in God and the right religion.

That’s insinuating if I answer it is more important to believe in God, than someone can be a lowlife and believe in God, and have more intrinsic value than a good moral athesist.

I think it’s important to be a good person and have faith in God. Both are useless without the other, because one without the other will lead to eternal damnation.

I think your survey will result in very skewed results and make religious people look poorly. Look at the question above, if we answer we disagree that faith in God comes first before anything. A secular person will think “look at these religious whackos, they think it’s more important to have the correct religion and believe in God, than being a good person”.

10 - Whenever science and sacred scripture conflict, science is probably right.

This one is just setting us up too. It’s just completely loaded I wouldn’t even know how to answer these. How can we just say one way or another with no specifics? So either we’re anti-science zealots, or we don’t believe our own scriptures.