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| − | + | [[Image:115523-004-FA619CA3.jpg|thumb|right|221px| 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|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 [[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> | ||
Revision as of 21:39, December 24, 2017
Newsweek declared about atheists and genetic mutations and a scientific study relating to atheists:
| “ | Left-handedness is a good marker of a high mutational load. They found higher levels of left-handedness in atheists than in followers of most major religions.
Explaining the behavior behind these results, Dutton says: “Religiousness makes you more pro-social, and you become more religious when you're stressed. Religious people would have been sexually selected for because their pro-social, moral, unstressed nature would be attractive.”... Since the industrial revolution, the hold of natural selection on humanity has weakened. “We developed better and better medical care, easier access to healthy food and better living conditions. Child mortality collapsed down to a tiny level and more and more people with more and more mutant genes have survived into adulthood and had children,” Dutton says.[1] |
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The Telegraph states about atheists and genetic mutations:
| “ | Left-handed people are more likely to be atheists, a study has found, as it says belief is passed on genetically.
The study suggests that religious people have fewer genetic mutations and are therefore less likely to be left handed or have conditions such as autism or schizophrenia. British academic Edward Dutton, a professor at Oulu University, Finland, said that in pre-industrial times religiosity was passed on like other genetic attributes because it was associated with greater stability, mental health and better social behaviour. But modern science means many people who would not previously have survived are making it to adulthood.[2] |
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In 2011, the University of Boston published a study on the correlation between atheism and high-functioning/mild autism.[3][4] See also: Atheism and autism
On September 19, 2011, the Discover Magazine website had an article indicating that there were empirical results showing a positive correlation between atheism and high functioning autism and the article declared:
| “ | This is why the empirical results on the correlation between atheism and high functioning autism are important...
...some people were angry that I seemed to suggest that atheists were antisocial weirdos. Well, there is some data to back that up.[5] |
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The abstract for the 2017 journal article The Mutant Says in His Heart, “There Is No God”: the Rejection of Collective Religiosity Centred Around the Worship of Moral Gods Is Associated with High Mutational Load which was published in the journal Evolutionary Psychological Science indicates:
| “ | Industrialisation leads to relaxed selection and thus the accumulation of fitness-damaging genetic mutations. We argue that religion is a selected trait that would be highly sensitive to mutational load. We further argue that a specific form of religiousness was selected for in complex societies up until industrialisation based around the collective worship of moral gods. With the relaxation of selection, we predict the degeneration of this form of religion and diverse deviations from it. These deviations, however, would correlate with the same indicators because they would all be underpinned by mutational load. We test this hypothesis using two very different deviations: atheism and paranormal belief. We examine associations between these deviations and four indicators of mutational load: (1) poor general health, (2) autism, (3) fluctuating asymmetry, and (4) left-handedness. A systematic literature review combined with primary research on handedness demonstrates that atheism and/or paranormal belief is associated with all of these indicators of high mutational load.[6] | ” |
Theodore Beale wrote:
| “ | This would also put Bruce Charlton's Mouse Utopia observations into context, as atheism appears to be one aspect of the nihilistic despair that is a consequence of the increased prevalence of genetic inferiority that results from easier circumstances.[7] | ” |
Atheists, psychopathy and genetic mutations
See also: Atheism and psychopathy
Psychopathy is strongly correlated with crime, violence, and antisocial behavior.[8][9] 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 criminality. Psychopaths have little or no concern for other people. Some psychopaths equate love with sexual arousal.[10]
There are a few studies showing a positive correlation between psychopahy and irreligion (see: Atheism and psychopathy).[11][12]
There are medical scientists and social scientists who theorize that psychopathy is a medical condition caused by genetic defects (caused by accumulated mutations within a given population).[13][14][15]
See also
Notes
- ↑ RELIGIOUS PEOPLE LIVE HEALTHIER, LONGER LIVES—WHILE ATHEISTS COLLECT MUTANT GENES, Newsweek, 2017
- ↑ Atheists are more likely to be left handed, study finds, The Telegraph, 2017
- ↑ Religious Belief Systems of Persons with High Functioning Autism, Catherine Caldwell-Harris, Caitlin Fox Murphy and Tessa Velazquez at the Department of Psychology - Boston University); Patrick McNamara (Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine)
- ↑ Is atheism linked to autism? Controversial study points to relationship between the two, Daily Mail, 20 September 2011
- ↑ What atheism and autism may have in common By Razib Khan, September 19, 2011]
- ↑ The Mutant Says in His Heart, “There Is No God”: the Rejection of Collective Religiosity Centred Around the Worship of Moral Gods Is Associated with High Mutational Load, Evolutionary Psychological Science by Edward Dutton, Guy Madison and Curtis Dunkel, pp 1–12
- ↑ [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/12/genetically-inferior.html Genetically Inferior by Theodore Beale
- ↑ (2005) Handbook of Psychopathy. Guilford Press, 440–3.
- ↑ Coid, Jeremy; Yang, Min; Ullrich, Simone; Roberts, Amanda; Moran, Paul; Bebbington, Paul; Brugha, Traolach; Jenkins, Rachel et al. (May 2009). "Psychopathy among prisoners in England and Wales". International Journal of Law and Psychiatry (Elsevier Ltd) 32 (3): 134–41. doi:10.1016/j.ijlp.2009.02.008. PMID 19345418. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24256789_Psychopathy_among_prisoners_in_England_and_Wales. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
- ↑ Robert D. Hare (2011). Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us. Guilford Press, 52. ISBN 978-16062-35782.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ The Psycho Gene by Philip Hunter, EMBO Rep. 2010 Sep; 11(9): 667–669.
- ↑ Psychopathic personality traits: heritability and genetic overlap with internalizing and externalizing psychopathology by DANIEL M. BLONIGEN,* BRIAN M. HICKS, ROBERT F. KRUEGER, CHRISTOPHER J. PATRICK, and WILLIAM G. IACONO, Psychol Med. 2005 May; 35(5): 637–648.
- ↑ Glenn, A.L., Kurzban, R., & Raine, A. (2011). Evolutionary Theory and Psychopathy. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 16, 371-380