Children Exposed To Religion Have Difficulty Distinguishing Fact From ...
But, there's always going to be the flip side. People continuing to play their games.
This scientific study was done by Cognitive Science. A real FDA approved Study and finding... boy....
When will all this madness stop??
Maybe it wasn't the FDA. maybe it was the Board of American Scienctists and Board of American Psychologists.
Study: Religion is Good for Kids
Study: Religion is Good for Kids
Who would even want to live in this society?
Is Religion Good for Children?
Secular children differ in happiness, mental health, and their grasp of reality.
Religious Children Have Trouble Distinguishing Between Magic and Reality
Religions tend to be
founded on miracle stories—exactly the thing religious kids had trouble distinguishing from reality.
One other related possibility of many is that religious parents may have more respect for authority, and they may reinforce obedience in their children more than secular parents do.
Based on this research, you might think that raising religious children is neutral at worst, preferable at best, and probably worth the hassle of dragging the kids out of bed every Sunday. But there are some major pitfalls on....
Aside from these obvious drawbacks, there’s another, subtler problem with raising religious children: All that talk of
snake-inspired subterfuge,
planet-cleansing floods, and
apocalyptic horsemen might hamper kids’ ability to differentiate between fantasy and reality—or even to think critically.
That’s the implication of two
recent studies published in
Cognitive Science in which researchers attempted to gauge perceptions of reality in religious and secular children. (The religious children were all from Christian families, from a variety of denominations.) In one study, the researchers read realistic stories and fantasy tales to the kids. Some of the fantasy tales featured familiar biblical events—like the parting of the Red Sea—but with non-biblical characters. (In the retelling of the Red Sea story, Moses was called John.) Others featured non-biblical but clearly magical events—the parting of a mountain, for instance—as well as non-biblical characters.
In another study, the researchers read children three different versions of the same story. One version had a biblical character performing a miracle, like Jonah escaping a whale’s stomach, and noted that God was behind the miracle. A second version told of the same miraculous event, but left out any mention of God. A third retold the story realistically, with no miracles and no God.
Basically, there is no God and there is no devil.... Basic grounds for all these studies.
Do you really NOT care?