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Line 467: − − === Christian apologist and author Michael Caputo on atheist morality and the issue of bestiality === − − ''See also:'' [[Atheism and morality]] and [[Atheism, pederasty and NAMBLA]] − − The [[Christian apologetics|Christian apologist]] and author Michael Caputo writes: − {{cquote|Although bestiality is not openly supported by well known [[Militant atheism|Militant Atheist]] sites, support for it is inherent in their insistence that decisions of a sexual nature should be left up to the individual adults to determine. [[God]] disagrees.<ref>[http://atheismexposed.tripod.com/god_bible_bestiality.htm GOD, THE BIBLE AND BESTIALITY]</ref>}} − − For more information please see: [[Atheism and morality]]
→Christian apologist and author Michael Caputo on atheist morality and the issue of bestiality
The abstract of a 2014 peer-reviewed study in the journal'' Plos One'' reported:
The abstract of a 2014 peer-reviewed study in the journal'' Plos One'' reported:
{{cquote|American participants intuitively judged a wide variety of immoral acts (e.g., serial murder, consensual incest, necrobestiality, cannibalism) as representative of atheists, but not of eleven other religious, ethnic, and cultural groups. Even atheist participants judged immoral acts as more representative of atheists than of other groups. These findings demonstrate a prevalent intuition that belief in God serves a necessary function in inhibiting immoral conduct, and may help explain persistent negative perceptions of atheists.<ref>[http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0092302 Everything Is Permitted? People Intuitively Judge Immorality as Representative of Atheists]</ref>}}
{{cquote|American participants intuitively judged a wide variety of immoral acts (e.g., serial murder, consensual incest, necrobestiality, cannibalism) as representative of atheists, but not of eleven other religious, ethnic, and cultural groups. Even atheist participants judged immoral acts as more representative of atheists than of other groups. These findings demonstrate a prevalent intuition that belief in God serves a necessary function in inhibiting immoral conduct, and may help explain persistent negative perceptions of atheists.<ref>[http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0092302 Everything Is Permitted? People Intuitively Judge Immorality as Representative of Atheists]</ref>}}
=== Richard Dawkins, Peter Singer and bestiality ===
=== Richard Dawkins, Peter Singer and bestiality ===