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Study Shows What We Already Know…
The Journal Personality and Social Psychology Review, (Vol. 14, No. 1, 126-139 (2010)), studies the correlation between religiosity and racial tolerance, and guess what?
Is it titled: “Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A Meta-Analytic Review of Religious Racism” by Deborah L. Hall, David C. Matz & Wendy Wood.
Executive Summary of the abstract:
…a strong religious in-group identity was associated with derogation of racial out-groups.
Only religious agnostics were racially tolerant.
Note well, anyone who makes claims that religion promotes tolerance. This study says quite the reverse.
Note well as well: Only religious agnostics were racially tolerant. (This includes, of course, atheists.)
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Story Here
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