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The an excerpt from the abstract for the journal article ''Many faces of dogmatism: Prejudice as a way of protecting certainty against value violators among dogmatic believers and atheists'' which was published in the ''British Journal of Psychology'' states:
The an excerpt from the abstract for the journal article ''Many faces of dogmatism: Prejudice as a way of protecting certainty against value violators among dogmatic believers and atheists'' which was published in the ''British Journal of Psychology'' states:
{{Cquote|In this article, we suggest that dogmatic beliefs, manifested as strong beliefs that there is no God (i.e., dogmatic atheism) as well as strong beliefs in God (i.e., religious orthodoxy), can serve as a cognitive response to uncertainty. Moreover, we claim that people who dogmatically do not believe in religion and those who dogmatically believe in religion are equally prone to intolerance and prejudice towards groups that violate their important values. That is because prejudice towards these groups may be an efficient strategy to protect the certainty that strong beliefs provide. We tested these assumptions in two studies. In Study 1 and Study 2, we demonstrated that dogmatic beliefs mediate the relationship between intolerance to uncertainty and both, religious orthodoxy and dogmatic atheism. In addition, in Study 2 we showed that both the religiously orthodox and dogmatic atheists become prejudiced towards groups that violate their values and that these effects are especially strong under experimentally induced uncertainty.<ref>[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjop.12186 ''Many faces of dogmatism: Prejudice as a way of protecting certainty against value violators among dogmatic believers and atheists'' by Małgorzata Kossowska, Aneta Czernatowicz‐Kukuczka,, Maciej Sekerdej, ''British Journal of Psychology'', First published: 19 February 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12186</ref>}}
{{Cquote|In this article, we suggest that dogmatic beliefs, manifested as strong beliefs that there is no God (i.e., dogmatic atheism) as well as strong beliefs in God (i.e., religious orthodoxy), can serve as a cognitive response to uncertainty. Moreover, we claim that people who dogmatically do not believe in religion and those who dogmatically believe in religion are equally prone to intolerance and prejudice towards groups that violate their important values. That is because prejudice towards these groups may be an efficient strategy to protect the certainty that strong beliefs provide. We tested these assumptions in two studies. In Study 1 and Study 2, we demonstrated that dogmatic beliefs mediate the relationship between intolerance to uncertainty and both, religious orthodoxy and dogmatic atheism. In addition, in Study 2 we showed that both the religiously orthodox and dogmatic atheists become prejudiced towards groups that violate their values and that these effects are especially strong under experimentally induced uncertainty.<ref>[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjop.12186 ''Many faces of dogmatism: Prejudice as a way of protecting certainty against value violators among dogmatic believers and atheists'' by Małgorzata Kossowska, Aneta Czernatowicz‐Kukuczka,, Maciej Sekerdej, ''British Journal of Psychology'', First published: 19 February 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12186</ref>}}
== Atheist Luke Muehlhauser on atheism and dogmatism ==
Atheist Luke Muehlhauser wrote about atheism and dogmatism:
{{Cquote|...I am reminded every day that we atheists are not particularly more rational than believers.
Denying the gods does not allow one to escape rampant human bias... We, too, are often dogmatic. We, too, abandon reason and evidence to support opinions that just “feel right” to us.
I was reminded of this a few hundred times during the week when I asked atheists to explain what was wrong with my [July 16, 2010] post. A few people gestured toward a kind of argument, but it was clear they were more interested to condemn me than they were to work through the logic of the ethical issues at play.
Most of my critics made little attempt to understand what I had said. Instead, they blatantly misrepresented my stated positions so that they could smear me.
Others admitted freely they didn’t care about the arguments involved, they just knew that they knew that they knew I was wrong...
Read the comments on this subject [at Pharyngula] for a lesson in dogmatic atheism. They demonstrate a method for showing that atheists are dogmatic: Attack an atheist’s dogma – especially about a complicated subject like morality and feminism – and count the number of respondents who show a serious interest in arguments and evidence over emotion and dogma-defending.<ref>[Atheism and Dogmatism] by Luke Muehlhauser] at Commonsenseatheism.com</ref>}}
== Atheism, dogmatism and strong atheism/positive atheism ==
== Atheism, dogmatism and strong atheism/positive atheism ==