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Saints & Sinners

Posted on June 27, 2009 by David Hume

Normally I would post this at one of my science blogs…but it might be relevant right now in politics. Sinning Saints and Saintly Sinners: The Paradox of Moral Self-Regulation: The question of why people are motivated to act altruistically has … Continue reading →

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Religion, nationality & trust of the Other

Posted on June 11, 2009 by David Hume

At Gene Expression I have a post up where I explore the relationship between lack of trust of other religions and other nationalities across nations. As many might expect, the relationship was close. On the other hand, there was no … Continue reading →

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Atheism, religion and politics

Posted on April 25, 2009 by David Hume

At ScienceBlogs I look at World Values Survey data and compare secular and conservative East Asian nations to the religious but liberal United States. I conclude (after looking over data tables): My point here is rather simple: increased secularism in … Continue reading →

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Which nations support open borders?

Posted on April 21, 2009 by David Hume

I review the World Values Survey on this question at ScienceBlogs.

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Religion, conservatism, an international view?

Posted on April 14, 2009 by David Hume

At Gene Expression I have a post up, Religion, the United States, Sweden, South Korea and Japan, where I examine a little bit of data from the World Values Survey. I observe: South Korea and Japan are harder to interpret. … Continue reading →

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The decline of American Catholicism?

Posted on April 12, 2009 by David Hume

I have a post up at ScienceBlogs noting the erosion in numbers among American Catholics part of a general shift away from institutional religion.

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Which is more scientific, economics or sociology?

Posted on April 9, 2009 by David Hume

Depends on your politics apparently.

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Atheists are liberal, but liberals are not atheists

Posted on January 21, 2009 by David Hume

The Audacious Epigone explores the GSS in terms of the relationship between irreligion and politics.  He confirms what I’ve noted before, the data shows that the irreligious strongly tend to be liberal, but liberals only weakly tend to be irreligious. … Continue reading →

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Who is pro-science, the Left or the Right?

Posted on January 1, 2009 by David Hume

In the comments below I made an assertion to the effect that conservatives are more likely to notionally reject the authority of science, which is one reason that I sometimes focus on right-wing Denialism. On the Left the main analog … Continue reading →

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News flash: majority of American Christians are not Christian!

Posted on December 20, 2008 by David Hume

A month ago some bloggers were mooting whether Barack Hussein Obama was a Christian at all due to his heterodox beliefs.  Well, we now know how it was that the majority Americans voted for this avowed Christian non-Christian: most American … Continue reading →

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