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“There is a widespread cross-cultural stereotype suggesting that atheists are untrustworthy and lack a moral compass. Is there any truth to this notion?” opens a new paper published in PLOS One, investigating the relationship between moral values and religious belief or disbelief. The paper describes the results of four surveys of 4,622 atheists and theists across America and Sweden, examining the relationship between religious belief – or lack thereof – and moral values. “The most general take-home message from these studies is that people who do not believe in God do have a moral compass. In fact, they share many of the same moral concerns that religious believers have, such as concerns about fairness, and about protecting vulnerable individuals from harm,” said study author Tomas Ståhl of the University of Illinois at Chicago in a statement. There still seem to be widespread negative attitudes towards atheists worldwide. In a 2019 Pew poll, an average of 45 percent of people across 34 countries say that belief in God is necessary to be moral and have good values. Only 60 percent of respondents to a 2020 Gallup poll would vote for an atheist presidential candidate, whereas 95 percent would vote for a Catholic candidate, 93 percent would vote for a Jewish candidate, and 80 percent would vote for an evangelical Christian. The studies in this paper investigated the participant's endorsement of Liberty/oppression and amoral tendencies, as well as the five foundations of the Moral Foundations Theory: Care/harm, Fairness/cheating, Loyalty/betrayal, Authority/subversion, and Sanctity/degradation. The first two studies described in the paper used Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform, a website to crowdsource responses, to survey hundreds of US residents. From this data, religiosity was found to be unrelated to amoral tendencies and endorsement of Liberty/oppression, as well as individualizing moral foundations of care and fairness. However, atheists were found to have a weaker endorsement of binding moral foundations such as deference to authority, sanctity, and in-group loyalty. “It is possible that the negative stereotype of atheists as immoral may stem in part from the fact that they are less inclined than religious people to view respect for authority, ingroup loyalty, and sanctity as relevant for morality, and they are more likely to make moral judgments about harm on a consequentialist, case by case basis,” said Ståhl. The second two studies surveyed thousands of individuals across America and Sweden – America is a more religious country, whereas Sweden is very secular. Data from these studies showed the same pattern of results as the previous two. These studies also took into account credibility-enhancing displays and perception of existential threat, examining whether they had an influence on having religious beliefs. Credibility-enhancing displays involve important members of the community engaging in behaviors in service of religious beliefs that would be personally costly if the beliefs were false. The data showed that less exposure to credibility-enhancing displays, lower perception of existential threat, as well as a more analytical cognitive style, was associated with a lack of religious belief. As a whole, these results support the notion that the moral compass of atheists is just as good as the moral compass of theists. However, atheists are more likely to assess the morality of actions based on their consequences, whereas religious people tend to endorse moral values that promote group cohesion. As Ståhl writes in the paper: “Atheism merely implies the absence of religious belief, and says nothing about what positive beliefs the disbeliever holds.” -IFL Science Bye way, believing is not knowing and knowing is not believing. Knowing means realness and believing is a possibility of a lack of realness. I embrace complexities, nuances, complications, and gray areas. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/support
Idag ska vi prata säkerhet i och kring event. Med oss har vi två herrar som tillsammans med SES satt samman en säkerhetsutbildning som går av stapeln i dagarna. Vi är väldigt glada att ha Tomas Stålmarck och Jacob Silverhult med oss i Eventpodden.
Då Johnny är på löparläger gästar Janne Svärdhagen som bisittare. Tillsammans med Daniel följer han upp förra veckans debatt om backyard ultra-formatet. Johanna Gelfgren totalvann Jättelångt, Sofia Byhlinder laddade upp inför SM med seger på Öland, Filip Andersson vann Vinkbo Backyard Ultra för tredje gången och Tomas Stöt visade att gammal är äldst i Älvdalen. Dessutom frontyard i Grums & Stävie, hyllning till den fria löpningen i Sydkusten Ultra och sju gånger sju i Borås, samt dramatik i skyrunningtävling där systrarna El Kott Helander vann. Stöd Ultraaktuellt 0:42 Janne Svärdhagen gästar som bisittare 2:10 PRT, Personliga Rekordens Tävling, sålde slut direkt 3:48 Glaciärdramatik i Monte Rosa Sky Marathon & seger av systrarna El Kott Helander 6:13 Extremultra, säkerhetstänk, backyard ultra & tävling i sömnbrist 14:50 Sydkusten Ultra, en hyllning till ljuset & den fria löpningen 16:22 Filip Andersson vann Vinkbo Backyard Ultra för tredje gången 17:22 Intervju med Filip Andersson 22:32 Eftersnack Filip 23:55 André Rangelind i toppform i Frontyard Grums 26:03 Hett i Stävie Frontyard 27:20 Veterankamp i annorlunda Älvdalen Backyard Ultra 31:01 Intervju med Tomas Stöt 34:46 Eftersnack Tomas 36:16 Snabba varv i Seven x Seven Ultra 37:19 Bra SM-kvitto för Sofia Byhlinder i Öland Ultra 39:17 Intervju med Sofia Byhlinder 44:57 Eftersnack Sofia & uppsnack inför SM på 100 km 46:36 Johanna Gelfgren totalvann Jättelångt 48:58 Intervju med Johanna Gelfgren 53:24 Eftersnack Johanna 53:53 Kommande tävlingar och FKT-försök ultramarathon.se
Tomas Stølen, postdoktor ved det psykologiske fakultet, drøfter hvilke filosofiske motiver ligger til grunn for Marx’ tenkning. Av særlig interesse i så måte er begrepet om fremmedgjøring. I boken Das Kapital, utgitt i årene 1867-94, hevder Karl Marx at kapitalismen vil kollapse under vekten av sine egne motsetninger. I dag, 124 år senere, fremstår kapitalismen som en like selvskreven del av samfunnet som demokratiet. Samtidig er vi på kollisjonskurs: verdier som evig vekst og bærekraft lar seg vanskelig kombinere. I september inviterer den sveitsiske scenekunstneren Christophe Meierhans publikum til å være jury i en offentlig rettssak mot det verdensomspennende monetære system i en fire timer lang forestilling med navnet Trials of Money. Implisitt må man som tilskuer dermed ta stilling til sitt eget syn på pengenes eventuelle skyld eller uskyld. Vi ser tilbake på Marx’ kritikk av kapitalismen med 2018-briller og prøver oss på å spå utfallet av rettssaken. Foredraget er en del av arrangementsrekken"Rein Bonus" i regi av BIT Teatergarasjen.
I Das Kapital, utgitt i årene 1867-94, hevder Karl Marx at kapitalismen vil kollapse under vekten av sine egne motsetninger. I dag, 124 år senere, fremstår kapitalismen som en like selvskreven del av samfunnet som demokratiet. Samtidig er vi på kollisjonskurs: verdier som evig vekst og bærekraft lar seg vanskelig kombinere. Vi inviterte 11. september Tomas Stølen, postdoktor ved det psykologiske fakultet, til å se tilbake på Marx i lys av Georg W.F. Hegel og Theodor Adorno. Hvilke filosofiske motiver ligger til grunn for Marx’ tenkning? Av særlig interesse i så måte er begrepet om fremmedgjøring. Foredraget ble arrangert i samarbeid med Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek og i forbindelse med forestillingen Trials of Money av den sveitsiske scenekunstneren Christophe Meierhans.
Tillsammans med Tomas Stålmarck, Minnesota, Angelica Mäkelä, student och just nu på praktik på Occasion samt Emil Tingström, ansvarig för eventutbildningen i Landskrona snackar vi om framtidens kompetenser, varför eventprojektledare är populära även i andra branscher och hur man söker utbildning för att få jobba med världens roligaste - event!
Ett samtal med Tomas Ståhl, 32 år, Ö-vik. Om konfirmationen - ja till Jesus. Herre över allt. Livets mening. Gyllene regeln. Barn och föräldrar - vi och Gud. Bibelappen. Evolutionsteori och skapelsetro. Vårt ursprung - Mats Molén. Livsavgörande bönesvar. Ingen tydlig kallelse. Tionde. Förlåtelse. Lämna saker bakom sig. Evigt liv är ett stort plus. Äldre bror Daniel. Stengrunden - Bo Giertz. Kristens resa - John Bunyan. Sång (Roland Utbuld - jag kan ej tvivla) med Anton och Sannah. Om Jesus - helt enkelt.