The headline of the story is not reflective of the description given within the article. The description says NOTHING about atheists. The abstract Elaine found says NOTHING about atheists. Yet the headline of the story reads "Study Reveals Atheists Are MORE Compassionate And Generous Than Highly Religious People". Maybe there is a study someplace that supports that, but it ain't this one.
"Less religious" DNE atheist. Or at least not neccessarily (atheist = less religious would evaluate to "true", but the equality isn't transitive).
I believe this kind of thing is called "spin".
Dave in MPLS / DISCLAIMER: I am not an actual rooster.
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