It is one of religion’s greatest successes, which is being able to equate morality to religiosity. There is no evidence that the religious are any more moral than or upright than their non-religious counterparts, but as we know with religion, something doesn’t have to be true for people to believe it wholeheartedly.
So this permeates into a society where people automatically think atheists are bad people, and that is the results this study so clearly brings out.

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