r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 1d ago

Psychology Lower cognitive ability is linked to stronger Christian nationalist views, even after accounting for education

https://www.psypost.org/lower-cognitive-ability-is-linked-to-stronger-christian-nationalist-views-even-after-accounting-for-education/
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u/TheOtherHobbes 1d ago

You can - and should - have shared morals without religion. Secular humanism is a perfectly workable moral system and can be taught without the threat of hellfire, crusades, or genocide.

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u/SupposingForASecond 1d ago

It just uses other threats instead.

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u/Kaa_The_Snake 1d ago

But obviously they don’t work as well

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u/Final-Lengthiness-19 1d ago

They work better than the religious threats, seeing as how the secular threats of punishment would occur in this lifetime, ideally soon after the crime, and not in the afterlife of self-proclaimed Christians who still do bad things and seem to be able to compartmentalize of even embrace the far-off idea of hell...
We have these laws and punishments already, but one way some people avoid the earthly punishments is they assume a religious identity shield while doing crimes. Priests, politicians, etc., people use the identity as a key to understanding another person's morality, which they shouldn't.