Survey: Atheists Are More Likely to Get Vaccinated Than Any Religious Group

[progressoid]

According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center, atheists are more likely to get the COVID vaccine than any other religious demographic.

White evangelicals, as usual, trail everybody else.



90% of atheists — not “Nones,” but atheists specifically — say they will “definitely” or “probably” get a vaccine or that they’ve already received one shot. On the other end of the spectrum, only 54% of white evangelicals say the same thing.

10% of atheists say they have no plans to get a shot compared to 45% of white evangelicals.

These answers seem to fall right in line with how the two groups feel about science, medicine, and their understanding of the virus. When you accept the science, and you understand the protection that the vaccine provides, getting a shot is a no-brainer. (Even then, of course, there are a handful of atheists who accept conspiracy theories.) But there are a hell of a lot more white evangelicals who fall for similar nonsense, see science as an enemy of faith, and really don’t trust the Democrats in power to handle this properly. Ask them to explain how the virus works, and many of the answers will range from “sin” to echoing some Donald Trump lie.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/03/06/survey-atheists-are-more-likely-to-get-vaccinated-than-any-religious-group/?fbclid=IwAR2VEc6LiFSs2x-V-ci_MM3qt1ILw3J0F_3Hl0sYES5nT-2MwX2V8F8u6lQ

[Moostache]

1. Proud member of that 90%

My world view is informed by rational thought, enlightenment thinking and the scientific method.

The only thing I wish could be developed is a vaccine to protect the innocent from the imbeciles that won't accept the germ theory of disease and apparently would prefer burning entrails and sacrificing goats to ward off the spirits of evil...

Jesus Fucking Christ...this is 2021, not 221. Diseases like COVID-19 can be stopped and eradicated in the EXACT SAME MANNER AS POLIO! Spare me the baseless fears and irrational ideas for why anyone should avoid this vaccine. My bag of fucks is empty and anti-vaxxers are cordially invited to floss with my ass hair.

[Stallion]

2. Those Atheists and Agnostics Always causing Trouble

[USALiberal]

3. Well, atheists, like me, tend to use science so that makes perfect sense! nt

[malaise]

4. Another proud member

of the 90%

[marybourg]

5. "Any" other religious group?

I don’t see Jews, Muslims, Hindus shown. I think they just mean compared to “any Christians”.

[lapucelle]

15. So the partial evidence does not support the sweeping conclusion, and even if the data were complete

we'd still have that pesky cum hoc ergo propter hoc problem in reaching any causal inference based on correlative data.

[rogue emissary]

6. Interesting the most skeptical group believes the most in science.

[reACTIONary]

23. The enlightenment empiricists, for instance David Hume...

... were called, and self identified, as skeptics. Empiricism was also known as skepticism. What they were skeptical of was revelation. And although they thought we could learn and increase our knowledge of the natural world, they did not think that we could have any sort of ultimate knowledge of the true essence of reality.

[Xavier Breath]

7. I think I'd like to join the church of "Nothing in Particular."

They probably have a very lax dress code.

[Xavier Breath]

8. Edit: duplicate post.

[NightWatcher]

9. When Magic won't help you, choose Science.

[Progressive Jones]

10. Atheists are unencumbered by supernatural doubts. More brain power. nt

[fescuerescue]

11. Who pays for studies like this?

I mean whats the point?

how am I to use this information?

It doesn't change anyones mind on religion or vaccines.

[Treefrog]

12. Lol! That was the very first thing I thought too!

[progressoid]

19. Pew. Apparently it's part of a larger covid related survey.

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2021/03/05/growing-share-of-americans-say-they-plan-to-get-a-covid-19-vaccine--or-already-have/

[fescuerescue]

30. Well sure. But it still has to be funded

Every additional question, needs additional manpower to cultivate the answers and then analyze the data.

In short, every additional question cost additional money.

Also each additional question has the potential to influence how other questions are answered if the target audience starts to infer motives from the questions. (i.e. it motivates virtue signallers)

[progressoid]

31. The Pew Charitable Trusts

https://www.pewresearch.org/about/our-funding/



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[UTUSN]

13. Do atheists identify as religion/religious?!1

[reACTIONary]

24. No, not in my experience. The pollsters stick them there...

... because they don't have anywhere else to put them.

[Shermann]

14. Atheists are thinking very logically here

They know they haven't been washed in the blood of Jesus and need the next best type of protection available.

[Jirel]

16. LOL, duh!

People who are skeptical of BS and who care about science are getting vaxxed? Shocked, I say, shocked!

[MineralMan]

17. Yes, of course. Atheists are overwhelmingly rational human beings.

I am one such, I believe.

[rickyhall]

18. Probably because we're not a religious group.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. My Reaction, As Well

Atheists & agnostics are not a "religious" group.
I actually fall in the "nothing in particular" group because I'm not interested enough to take a stand either way.
I just don't care. Zero passion, zero belief in any position. Just don't care.

[rickyhall]

26. I do have faith. Faith in what can be proven.

[ProfessorGAC]

28. Faith Seems The Wrong Word

If it's provably true, we don't need faith to accept it. It's simply factual.
Any faith I have would be reserved for, as an example, the ethics & integrity of the scientists who worked on the mRNa technology to deliver the COVID vaccine.
Since I don't know them personally, I have faith they didn't fudge numbers for career points.
But, once the numbers started coming in on vax effectiveness, I had trust, but not faith. For me, there's nothing in which to have faith.
A difference in word interpretation, I suppose.

[shrike3]

21. I guess the atheists of my acquaintance are an unusual group.

"Hoax! Hoax!"

Though they are also prone to conspiracy theories, everything the media tells you is a lie, etc. A lot of them are in the natural wellness community, so that might be part of it.

I know little old rosary-saying Catholic ladies who ran to get the vaccine as soon as it was offered. Go figure.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

22. Not surprising to me at all.

Atheists are more likely to make decisions based on most probable outcomes.

They're also less prone to be swayed by baseless scare tactics, whether it's eternal damnation, microchips, etc.

[demigoddess]

25. religious people never seem to make sense. When I was a kid, I heard a guy at church

talking about killing an old woman. Religious relative doesn't understand how my daughter was born retarded. Stranger once thought that the only reason I take care of my daughter is a desire to go to heaven. Another stranger did not understand how I can have retarded daughter and 2 gifted sons. All the preachers always telling God what to do. I could go on and on.

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. Fully vaccinated member of that group.

😁

[Skittles]

29. REALISTS

yes indeed