Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
by arrosenberg on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:35PM
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> To a large extent religious participation does seem to make people behave more pro-socially.
That's different from religiosity correlating with "being a good person" though, which I'm interpreting as "the ability to act both morally and independently".
It does seem that some people need religion to be a good person, because they lack the moral structure to do without (due to trauma or bad parenting or whatever). For those people, religion allows them to function in society with a set of business rules, but they still tend to lack a solid moral/ethical decision matrix to function on their own or act outside the contexts they have rules for.
That's different from religiosity correlating with "being a good person" though, which I'm interpreting as "the ability to act both morally and independently".
It does seem that some people need religion to be a good person, because they lack the moral structure to do without (due to trauma or bad parenting or whatever). For those people, religion allows them to function in society with a set of business rules, but they still tend to lack a solid moral/ethical decision matrix to function on their own or act outside the contexts they have rules for.