I have made commitment that every time I read a bigoted post I will write something about atheism.

When looking at religious identity predicting volunteerism, atheists out-volunteered many of the religious groups. In other words, if you compared the average atheist and the average Catholic on volunteerism, the godless were more likely to be philanthropic. This set of findings was perplexing, which is academic parlance for “WTF?”

#Atheism #Sociology #Religion

https://onlysky.media/dspeed/atheists-and-the-common-good/

Atheists and the common good

When our study began, we expected to find that the religious are more likely to volunteer than the nonreligious. We were in for a surprise.

OnlySky Media
@igisho can you show us some data? And its source?
Eternally Damned, Yet Socially Conscious? The Volunteerism of Canadian Atheists

Abstract. Research suggests that people who are religious may volunteer because religion is innately prosocial (i.e., inclination) or perhaps because religious

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