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Originally Posted by JinnKai
Show me a reputable source which claims such. The difficulty with an assertion such as yours is that it is easier to measure contributions from an organization like a church because they are mandated by law to keep financial records. Unfortunately for you, there are very few "atheist" organizations which keep such records. NO study has been done to defend your claim, and understandably so; it'd be nigh impossible to do so.
Your claim is made even more obviously tenuous by the fact that you used "nearly 4 times" and "90%ish" - meaning you didn't actually read ACTUAL numbers from a REPUTABLE source, but made it up (or someone else made it up, and passed it on).
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...Because, you know, I've got nothing better to do than to make up false statistics. I could have said "3.6 times more likely" and "87%", but those figures would be incorrect as that's not what they are. Hence why I said "nearly 4 times" and "90'ish". Also, I love the claim "No study has been done to defend your claim". Really. I do. Because, you know, it's not like it's not possible to, you know, ask someone of they're a theist or not and look at their non-profit contributions for the year >.>
You're right about one thing, though. I don't have the exact statistic on-hand, but I can find it (Won't be too hard. I know exactly where to look).
Anyway, to the two people who've claimed it's harder to be a moral atheist than a moral theist... Just what the hell are you smoking? To assert such a claim you would have to at least acknowledge that there's some repercussions in a disbelief in God-- But you don't (And won't). You, as an atheist, have no predetermined standard upon which you live. Like I've said in other threads, it's much easier to be a moral atheist than a moral theist, because you aren't
REQUIRED to abide by any set of rules and regulations.