Ein bißchen glauben sie alle, deshalb sind alle auch ein bißchen gewollt gut. Das dachte ich immer, nach einem Gespräch mit Atheisten in der damaligen DDR, wo die Gottlosigkeit Staatsdoktrin war. Genau weiß niemand wer er ist, und warum er ist. Seit Darwin sind viele immer sicherer in der Annahne geworden, dass es keines Gottes bedarf, andererseits sind wir selber halbe Götter und zur anderen Hälfte ein Mix aus Teufel und ein wenig Vernunft. Möge die Vernunft siegen, wenn es schon nicht der Glaube sein kann, um die eigene Rücksichtslosigkeit zu zügeln. Was mir Angst macht ist dass Wissen das sich mir aufdrängte, dass sie allesamt, wenn sie eher zum Nichtglauben neigen, dann zugleich zum Leichtsinn. In einer Welt die mit Dynamit geladen ist, sollte der Leichtsinn nicht vorkommen.
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A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be. On basic questions of morality and human decency — issues such as governmental use of torture, the death penalty, punitive hitting of children, racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, environmental degradation or human rights — the irreligious tend to be more ethical than their religious peers, particularly compared with those who describe themselves as very religious.
AntwortenLöschenConsider that at the societal level, murder rates are far lower in secularized nations such as Japan or Sweden than they are in the much more religious United States, which also has a much greater portion of its population in prison. Even within this country, those states with the highest levels of church attendance, such as Louisiana and Mississippi, have significantly higher murder rates than far less religious states such as Vermont and Oregon.
AntwortenLöschenAs individuals, atheists tend to score high on measures of intelligence, especially verbal ability and scientific literacy. They tend to raise their children to solve problems rationally, to make up their own minds when it comes to existential questions and to obey the golden rule. They are more likely to practice safe sex than the strongly religious are, and are less likely to be nationalistic or ethnocentric. They value freedom of thought.
While many studies show that secular Americans don’t fare as well as the religious when it comes to certain indicators of mental health or subjective well-being, new scholarship is showing that the relationships among atheism, theism, and mental health and well-being are complex. After all, Denmark, which is among the least religious countries in the history of the world, consistently rates as the happiest of nations. And studies of apostates — people who were religious but later rejected their religion — report feeling happier, better and liberated in their post-religious lives.
On numerous respected measures of societal success — rates of poverty, teenage pregnancy, abortion, sexually transmitted diseases, obesity, drug use and crime, as well as economics — high levels of secularity are consistently correlated with positive outcomes in first-world nations. None of the secular advanced democracies suffers from the combined social ills seen here in Christian America.
AntwortenLöschenseit geraumer Zeit illustrieren die empirischen Studien wieder und wieder, d. Atheisten im Durchschnitt toleranter und ethisch verantwortungsbewusster agieren als ihre religioesen Zeitgenossen -- siehe oben.
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