Religious kids are meaner than secular kids - study

Why oh why am I not surprised. I've said many times here that I'd put up secular morality against religion anyday.

In this study, they find that kids from a religious home are more judgmental and generally meaner to others than secular kids. Even though their parents think that because they're religious then they'd be more moral and more likely to feel compassion for others, it's just the opposite.

The study is a great example of what morality is. Simply put, morality is how you treat people. The secular kids treat people better than the religious kids. 

Morality isn't about how well you can follow a rule book. You don't need to be religious to be moral.

Children from religious families are less kind and more punitive than those from non-religious households, according to a new study.

Academics from seven universities across the world studied Christian, Muslim and non-religious children to test the relationship between religion and morality.

They found that religious belief is a negative influence on children’s altruism.

“Overall, our findings ... contradict the commonsense and popular assumption that children from religious households are more altruistic and kind towards others,” said the authors of The Negative Association Between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism Across the World, published this week in Current Biology.

“More generally, they call into question whether religion is vital for moral development, supporting the idea that secularisation of moral discourse will not reduce human kindness – in fact, it will do just the opposite.” The Guardian