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Atheism and empathy (view source)
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From a [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]], moral and spiritual perspective, atheists have an inability to satisfactorily explain the existence of [[love]].<ref>[http://www.strangenotions.com/atheists-love/ How do atheists define love?] by Dr. Taylor Marshall</ref><ref>[https://atheistforum.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/what-is-love-how-materialist-atheism-fails-to-have-a-satisfactory-answer/ What is love? how materialist atheism fails to have a satisfactory answer], July 9, 2014</ref> See also: [[Atheism and love]] and [[Atheism and social justice]]
From a [[Metaphysics|metaphysical]], moral and spiritual perspective, atheists have an inability to satisfactorily explain the existence of [[love]].<ref>[http://www.strangenotions.com/atheists-love/ How do atheists define love?] by Dr. Taylor Marshall</ref><ref>[https://atheistforum.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/what-is-love-how-materialist-atheism-fails-to-have-a-satisfactory-answer/ What is love? how materialist atheism fails to have a satisfactory answer], July 9, 2014</ref> See also: [[Atheism and love]] and [[Atheism and social justice]]
== Atheism and pschopathy ==
''See also:'' [[Atheism and psychopathy]]
[[Image:115523-004-FA619CA3.jpg|thumb|right|200px| The perverse and cruel atheist [[Marquis de Sade]] in prison, 18th century line engraving. See: [[Atheism and sadism]]
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[[Psychopath]]y is strongly correlated with crime, violence, and antisocial behavior.<ref name=Patrick2005a>{{cite book |editor1-last=Patrick |editor1-first=Christopher J |year=2005 |title=Handbook of Psychopathy |publisher=Guilford Press |pages=440–3}}</ref><ref name="englandandwales2009">{{cite journal|last1=Coid|first1=Jeremy|last2=Yang|first2=Min|last3=Ullrich|first3=Simone|last4=Roberts|first4=Amanda|last5=Moran|first5=Paul|last6=Bebbington|first6=Paul|last7=Brugha|first7=Traolach|last8=Jenkins|first8=Rachel|last9=Farrell|first9=Michael|last10=Lewis|first10=Glyn|last11=Singleton|first11=Nicola|last12=Hare|first12=Robert|title=Psychopathy among prisoners in England and Wales|journal=International Journal of Law and Psychiatry|date=May 2009|volume=32|issue=3|pages=134–41|doi=10.1016/j.ijlp.2009.02.008|pmid=19345418|url=[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24256789_Psychopathy_among_prisoners_in_England_and_Wales Psychopathy among prisoners in England and Wales]|accessdate=1 April 2016|publisher=Elsevier Ltd}}</ref> See also: [[Irreligion, psychopathy, crime, violence and antisocial behavior]] ]]
A [[psychopath]] is someone with an anti-social [[personality disorder]] characterized by [[violent]], [[perverted]] or immoral behavior often leading to [[criminal]]ity. Psychopaths have little or no concern for other people. Some psychopaths equate [[love]] with sexual arousal.<ref>{{cite book |title=Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us |author=Robert D. Hare |publisher=Guilford Press |place=New York and London |year=2011 |pages=52 |isbn=978-16062-35782 |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1606235788}}</ref>
A 2016 study relating to atheism and psychopathy published in ''Plus One'' indicates:
{{Cquote|Similarly, a survey of 312 college students examining the relationship between Religious/Spiritual Well-Being (RSWB) and ‘dark triad’ personality traits found that “RSWB was confirmed to be negatively correlated with these negative aspects of personality, in particular with subclinical psychopathy.”
...moral concern is associated with a spiritual worldview.<ref>[http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0149989 Why Do You Believe in God? Relationships between Religious Belief, Analytic Thinking, Mentalizing and Moral Concern] by Anthony Ian Jack , Jared Parker Friedman, Richard Eleftherios Boyatzis, Scott Nolan Taylor, ''Plus One'', March 23, 2016</ref>}}
According to the 2014 journal article ''Correlates of psychopathic personality traits in everyday life: results from a large community survey'' published in the journal ''Frontiers of Psychology'' lack of belief in [[God]] is positively associated with [[Psychopath|psychopathic]] traits.<ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4106400/ Correlates of psychopathic personality traits in everyday life: results from a large community survey] by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Robert D. Latzman, Ashley L. Watts, Sarah F. Smith, and Kevin Dutton, ''Frontiers of Psychology'', 2014</ref>
== See also ==
== See also ==