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Who's the Most Righteous: Religious or Non Religious People?
Posted by Ron
Thursday, September 18th 2014 @ 04:51:29 PM EST

A recent study tackled this thorny question, and you have probably guessed the answer. Here's a clip from their findings. Below is a link to the article on "The Huffington Post:"

"The only differences between the religious and non-religious people included how they felt about and described moral acts. Religious people were more likely to express pride over performing moral acts, gratefulness over benefiting from moral acts, and guilt and disgust over immoral ones. Conservatives and liberals differed in the kinds of moral acts that they focused on. Liberals more often mention moral phenomena related to fairness and honesty," co-author Dan Wisneski, a psychology professor at Saint Peter's University in Jersey City, N.J., told LiveScience. "Conservatives more often mention moral phenomena related to loyalty and disloyalty or sanctity and degradation."

Ron Religious people can be canonized and called Saints according to some church's belief. In the end Sister Teresa indicated she no longer believed in God, but the Catholic Church did not remove her sainthood. No one ever calls an atheist a saint, no matter how much good works and charities he supports.

Apparently, there is within some men to good things regardless of their religious view, and there is within some men to do evil whether or not they have religious beliefs. To read a full article, click on http://huff.to/1tiMNl2.

(Above: Saints Sergius and Bacchus, a modern painting of two Fourth Century Roman Gay Soldier who were canonized as saints by the Eastern Orthodox Church. For more information about their lives and death, Click Here.)

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