There is social science research showing a positive correlation between video game usage and excess weight (see: Video game usage and excess weight).
Relevant Magazine reported in a story about the journal article in The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion entitled No Other Gods Before Mario?: Game Preferences Among Atheistic and Religious Individuals:
| “ | A new study of 228 college students found that while just about everyone prefers video games to regular board games (duh), those who claim no religion vastly prefer video games compared to the religious peers. It's a small study, but the director, Chris Burris, has an interesting hypothesis about why atheists prefer video games. Burris believes that atheists tend to be less good at "generating emotionally evocative internal simulations of experience." Simply put, he believes that religious people tend to be more imaginative, and are able to craft their own sense of play around simple games, while non-religious people tend to prefer the concrete rules afforded by video games.[2] | ” |
As far as the relationship between irreligion and obesity, please examine the articles below:
Atheist Stephen Fry on video gaming
The atheist Stephen Fry said, "I do enjoy video gaming... In the early days of games, I would spend hours. I mean literally. I would find it would be 4am and I would say God I have be at work at 6."[3]
Atheism, male nerds and sedentary games/pursuits
See also: Internet atheism and obesity and Atheist nerds and Internet atheism
Robin Hanson wrote: "This was my third year at GenCon, an annual convention where thousands play board games, role playing games, miniatures games, etc. Most attendees are, well, nerds. Mostly male too."[4]
In 2013, the atheist PZ Myers declared:
| “ | If we're going to expand our base and we're going to draw in more people to recognize the virtues of living in a secular world, we need to appeal to more than just that geek and nerd subset of the population. We need to have a wider base. ...I seriously believe that we're on the cusp of a crisis. We're not there yet but it's looming in front of us. Will we adapt and thrive and change the world? Or will we remain an avocation for a prosperous and largely irrelevant subset of the population? Will we become something more than a scattered society of internet nerds? That's what we have to do.[5] | ” |
See also: Internet atheism and obesity and PZ Myers and obesity
In response, David Klinghoffer at Evolution News and Views wrote:
| “ | A crisis looms, in Myers's view, because he looks around himself and sees a not very promising basis for a mass movement. He's right. There is indeed a quality of geeky isolation from reality, common sense, and the fullness of life that I see as a motif in atheist and Darwin activism alike.[6] | ” |
YouTube atheist Dusty Smith says atheist nerds are driving away women from considering the possibility of becoming atheists and this is a very upsetting situation to him.[7] Dusty Smith also stated that the atheist community needs to be more "cool".[8]
- See also: Atheism and social skills
Atheism and women
See also: Atheism and women
Surveys throughout the world and other data indicate that women are less inclined to be atheists (See: Atheism and women).[9] [10]
Internet atheism and obesity
See: Internet atheism and obesity
Sports performance: Religious faith vs. atheism
See also
Notes
- ↑ Stephen Fry talks gaming
- ↑ Why Do Atheists Like Video Games More Than Religious People Do?, Relevant Magazine
- ↑ Stephen Fry talks gaming
- ↑ Why nerds like games by Robert Hanson
- ↑ in Seattle, PZ Myers Reflects Candidly on His Constituency
- ↑ in Seattle, PZ Myers Reflects Candidly on His Constituency
- ↑ Atheism needs women
- ↑ Atheism needs women
- ↑ Khan, Razib (November 18, 2010). "Gene expression; Sex differences in global atheism, part N". Discover magazine website.
- Carter, Stephen L. (March 27, 2015). "The atheism gap". BloombergView.
- Atheism and Feminism, Oxford University Press blog
- ↑ Myers, P.Z. (June 29, 2010). "The woman problem". Pharyngula [blog].