A few mentions about bad science.
“That includes a study, published in the journal Science, which asserted that people who believe in God are not analytical thinkers.”
The two pertinent descriptions of the word analytical are first, “separating something into component parts or constituent elements.” This fails for the reason that God, by definition, cannot be separated into component parts or constituent elements. If God can be analyzed in this way, it is not God. However, everything else in reality *can* be analyzed in this way. Religious people have no problem making this distinction. So it can be accurately said that people who *do not* believe in God are incapable of imagining a singularity, God, that cannot be analyzed. It is their deficiency.
“There also was a study, published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, which claimed that ‘highly religious’ folk are less compassionate toward the needy than atheists.”
Easily proven as false. Atheists can be “compassionate” and “caring” all day, yet help no one. They may give money to hypothetical charities that help no one. And they may even *define* persuading others to be atheists as being in some way “compassionate.” Personal emotional gratification is not real compassion. And advocating the use of government to harm one group of people to benefit another group of people is not compassion, and, as H.L. Mencken observed, such people are S.O.B.s.
Religious people, on the other hand, by a long way, directly help the needy by giving to *them*, and they do so for both religious and altruistic reasons. They neither seek to control or dominate those they provide charity, which is another positive trait.
“Now comes yet another study, published this week in the Journal of Sex Research, which claims that adult film actresses are actually more religious than women who don’t get paid to.”
This is little more than hypocrisy, guilt, and rationalization balled up into one. Such women know what they are doing is physically and spiritually and psychologically wrong and damaging. So they first try to justify their actions, then try to overcome their deep and abiding guilt, and are finally hypocritical about the whole thing.
It has long been known that one of the biggest reasons for prostitution is that prostitutes are often “attention junkies”. They invariably insist that they do not like being prostitutes, and want to get out of the business; but they just cannot escape the attention they are given by others. Pimps are expert in doling out attention, and it doesn’t matter if the attention is bad or good; beating them one minute and dancing with them the next.
There is an easy cue to the very low self esteem and craving for attention in such women. Excessive finger rings and tattoos are often sure signs.
In Europe, where prostitution is often legal, many prostitutes are devout church goers. This does not mean that they are spiritual, just that they are filled with guilt and endless promises to themselves to stop doing what they do. They rarely quit until they are too old and ugly, then they are discarded.
After 36 years of academic medical practice, I have come to this conclusion:
90% of clinical medical research is trash, BUT
99.9% of psychology/sociology/behavioral science research is trash.
After 36 years of academic medical practice, I have come to this conclusion:
90% of clinical medical research is trash, BUT
99.9% of psychology/sociology/behavioral science research is trash.
Religious people, on the other hand, by a long way, directly help the needy by giving to *them*, and they do so for both religious and altruistic reasons. They neither seek to control or dominate those they provide charity, which is another positive trait.
According to the libtard, a religious charity operating a soup kitchen/flophouse for homeless/winos is seeking to control them by having them attend a short devotional before retiring or even saying grace before the meal.
In reality, the religious charity is simply trying to put the homeless/wino in touch with their spiritual side as the first step in a long process to solving the problem.
The libtard, of course, is only interesting in enabling and perpetuating the problem as a tool to help themselves to further political power.
I suspect the porn actress is no different. She has serious personal issues which led her into that line of work. Discovering religion or getting in touch with her spiritual side may be the first step toward getting out of that lifestyle, but as long as her john, libtard friends and/or other exploiters can just keep her nipping at the edges of her spirituality sort of like Joe Biden's claims for "his Catholic faith" in the VP debate, she will never make the full journey out.
A boyhood friend of mine lost his wife to cancer about five years ago and was seriously interested in finding a replacement a.s.a.p. He even went on-line and met a former porn actress who had gotten into religion to the extent that he felt she was sincere, bought her an airline ticket and arranged for her to stay the weekend with another lady friend. He discovered that despite all of the phone calls and "get to know you" talks before he sprung for the airline ticket, she had very serious issues which he knew he would never be able to deal with. She was not happy when he drove her back to the airport.