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Atheism and serial killers

In 2017, the news website Axios reported:

A new study published in Nature Human Behaviour found that people around the world are predisposed to believe that atheists are more likely to be serial killers than religious believers — a bias even held by atheists themselves.

By the numbers: The study included 3,256 participants across 13 diverse countries that included highly secular nations like Finland and the Netherlands as well as highly religious ones like the United Arab Emirates and India.

The test: Participants answered a survey question regarding the religious beliefs of a hypothetical sociopathic serial killer, and 60% tagged the killer as not believing in any gods, compared to 30 percent who branded him a religious believer.[2]

List of atheist shooters and serial killers

See: List of atheist shooters and serial killers

Atheism and psychopathy

See: Atheism and psychopathy

See also

Joseph Stalin's atheistic regime killed tens of millions of people.

Notes

  1. Stone Phillips, Jeffrey Dahmer (1994). Jeffrey Dahmer Interview - MSNBC Footage. Dateline NBC. Retrieved on October 7, 2017.
  2. People assume serial killers are atheists, Axios, 2017