According to Pew Research Data, a majority of the world believes that religion is a necessary requisite to a moral framework. 53 percent of Americans subscribe to this view. Social science is increasingly calling into question the value of that conviction.
A recent international study, The Negative Association between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism across the World, examined the altruistic and punitive tendencies in about 1,200 children ages 5-12 from the United States, Canada, Turkey, China, Jordan, South Africa. The subjects were parsed into three major groupings: Christian, Muslim, and non-religious, with Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and other affiliations having too small an incidence for statistical relevance.
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