Study: Religious children are less able to distinguish fantasy from reality

bbc ^ | july 29, 2014

[lowbridge]

According to new research from Boston University, young children with a religious background are less able to distinguish between fantasy and reality compared with their secular counterparts.

In two studies, 66 kindergarten-age children were presented with three types of stories - realistic, religious and fantastical. The researchers then queried the children on whether they thought the main character in the story was real or fictional.

While nearly all children found the figures in the realistic narratives to be real, secular and religious children were split on religious stories. Children with a religious upbringing tended to view the protagonists in religious stories as real, whereas children from non-religious households saw them as fictional.

Although this might be unsurprising, secular and religious children also differed in their interpretation of fantasy narratives where there was a supernatural or magical storyline.

"Secular children were more likely than religious children to judge the protagonist in such fantastical stories to be fictional," wrote the researchers.

"The results suggest that exposure to religious ideas has a powerful impact on children's differentiation between reality and fiction, not just for religious stories but also for fantastical stories."

[publius911]

Study: Religious children are less able to distinguish fantasy from reality.

There.
Fixed it.

Why do you suppose there is so much "global warming" indoctrination in the earliest government school grades?
Add relentless pro-sodomy indoctrination, as a free bonus.

[MrB]

“I believe silence will be met with silence”

Whether Obama said this to Net or not, this is what libs believe. “Adult” ones at that.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Slow news day.

[hattend]

Children with a religious upbringing tended to view the protagonists in religious stories as real

Which protagonists aren't/weren't real?

[ScottinVA]

#2 in this week’s attack on faith from academia... first was the Ohio State psycho class “quiz” that indicated atheists have higher IQs than those of faith.

[Night Hides Not]

Give a religious kid a copy of ACA, and he/she will tell you it’s fantasy within the first three pages.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Non religious children believe they know what is “real”?

[Grams A]

they see it as preferable to raise children as atheists,...”

As we read in a post yesterday, atheists have a higher IQ than Christians. So I guess all these highly intellectual conclusions would lead one to believe that everyone in my family is an ignorant Bible thumper and unable to distinguish reality from fantasy.

We’ll see about that in the hereafter!

[stevio]

Yea right. You have to be totally detached from reality if you think this(creation) is all some big coincidence.

[Louis Foxwell]

Over the target.

Christian children are taught the Bible is the history of real people. Agnostic children are told the Bible is full of lies and fantasy. Which group is grounded in reality?

As to fantasy, a 5 yr old who believes in Santa Claus will grow to understand the value of principles and ideals. A child who is denied belief in ideals will become cynical and neurotic.

The research conclusions are precisely upside down. They say vastly more about the attitudes and values of the researchers than the children.

[Wuli]

and by age 11 this means what???

zip, nil, nada, zero

[antidisestablishment]

I believe that was a typo. The correct number was 666.

[PATRIOT1876]

This study appears to have been made by secular people who think they know more than God.

They know the age of the Earth, not God (who was an Eyewitness, by the way).

They know how life can to be, not God (even though the odds that chance could bring about life have been calculated at 1 in 10 to the one hundred thousandth power against)

They probably say that Jesus is a liar (even though hundreds of prophesies were made about Him before He was born including many exact details).

The “We know more than God” crowd has been sounding a little desperate lately.

[PATRIOT1876]

*As far as I can tell, religious children can actually have fun, and a big imagination.*

“Imagination is more important than knowledge”

- Albert Einstein

[adorno]

Study: Religious children are less able to distinguish fantasy from reality

Sounds like some people were out to prove a negative about religion, but, they chose to do so with the most innocent in a society.

That's abusive, because, they chose to prove a point which is immaterial in the real world. When those kids grow up, would they have the same views or feelings?

The study was intellectually dishonest and was conducted to simply put forth a view that religions are for the weak-minded.

The weak-minded are those that can't tolerate a different point of view, and therefore, the religious have to be presented as lacking intelligence and/or more ignorant and less capable of dealing with real world situations. The liberal left need these kind of studies to validate their positions. But, the studies are very faulty in their methods. Just like global warming.

[Jack Hammer]

Yawn.

Another bullsh*t “study.”

[mware]

I suspect in the secular world, angels and demons do not exist.

[cblue55]

What a crock ‘o Sh—.

[Hootowl]

Of the top 10 measured or estimated IQs on the planet, 6 are Christian, 2 are theists, and 2 are atheist/agnostic. That should tell you something about intelligent people.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

Unicorns? (From the King James Version)

Job 39:9-12
Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?

Psalm 29:6
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.

Isaiah 34:7
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

Just a little fyi...