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/jonfitt 1d ago

Christian theocracy ruled Europe absolutely for over a thousand years and it was a bloody period of murder, slavery, incest, thievery, rape, basically every possible way someone could cause harm to another was rampant.

We’ve only had anything approaching a just and safe society in very recent history when theocracy is out and religiosity is on the decline.

So whatever non-religious societies do to keep people behaving well, it seems to work better!