This is what 2,000 years of propaganda does.

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24. It just goes to show you how far some peoples' opinions are from the nearest fact.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7189188/Atheists-just-as-ethical-as-churchgoers.html

But people who did not have a religious background still appeared to have intuitive judgments of right and wrong in common with believers, according to the findings, published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

Dr Marc Hauser, from Harvard University, one of the co-authors of the research, said that he and his colleagues were interested in the roots of religion and morality. "For some, there is no morality without religion, while others see religion as merely one way of expressing one's moral intuitions," he said.

Dr Hauser added: "The research suggests that intuitive judgments of right and wrong seem to operate independently of explicit religious commitments. However, although it appears as if co-operation is made possible by mental mechanisms that are not specific to religion, religion can play a role in facilitating and stabilising co-operation between groups."

"Although, as we discuss in our paper, this link (GG: between religion and morality) is not a necessary one, many people have become so accustomed to using it, that criticism targeted at religion is experienced as a fundamental threat to our moral existence."