It’s Official: Religion Doesn’t Make You More Moral

“A recent study in Science aimed at uncovering how we experience morality in our everyday lives suggests that religious people are no more moral—or immoral—than non-religious people,” Elizabeth Picciuto reports at The Daily Beast. The study also compared people with different political ideologies. “If we watch Fox or MSNBC, we might think that liberals are from Mars, conservatives are from Venus. But there are far more similarities,” Daniel Wisneski, a collaborator on the study and an assistant professor at St. Peter’s University, said.

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