Disbelief in human evolution linked to greater prejudice and racism
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Bigotry and the human–animal divide: (Dis)belief in human evolution and bigoted attitudes across different cultures.
UMass Amherst, where the study comes from, is particularly awful, they are terrible hypocrites.
There is a definite British "cultural Anglicanism", where churches are visited routinely by non-believers who would never step inside during a service. I'm one such non-believer; some of my favourite spaces are churches.
But what makes American disbelief in gods different?
Is it that there are fewer beautiful old churches to visit outside of worship hours, or is it that has become inherently, necessarily militant because the US has, since McCarthy and the Red Scare, inserted performative Christianity into as many avenues of life as possible such that an atheist presidential candidate has to lie to get the job?
The term Atheism Plus designates “spaces, persons, and groups dedicated to promoting social justice and countering misogyny, racism, homo/bi/transphobia, ableism and other such bigotry inside and outside of the atheist community”
Enough of that crap. Note that they don't include my main concern, ageism. That's because they are a reactionary movement. Evangelicalism ostentatously follows the Bible, including the commandment of honoring parents (i.e. the aged). Atheists equally ostentatously reject it.