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Atheism, psychopathy and animal abuse[edit]
See also: Atheism, psychopathy and animal abuse and Atheism and psychopathy
A psychopath is someone with an anti-social personality disorder characterized by violent, perverted or immoral behavior often leading to criminality. Psychopaths have little or no concern for other people. Some psychopaths equate love with sexual arousal.[9]
A 2016 study relating to atheism and psychopathy published in Plus One indicates:
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Similarly, a survey of 312 college students examining the relationship between Religious/Spiritual Well-Being (RSWB) and ‘dark triad’ personality traits found that “RSWB was confirmed to be negatively correlated with these negative aspects of personality, in particular with subclinical psychopathy.”
...moral concern is associated with a spiritual worldview.[10]
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According to the 2014 journal article Correlates of psychopathic personality traits in everyday life: results from a large community survey published in the journal Frontiers of Psychology lack of belief in God is positively associated with psychopathy.[11]
For additional information, please see: Atheism and psychopathy
Animal abuse and psychopathy[edit]
Mark D. Griffiths Ph.D. wrote in Psychology Today:
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Studies carried out by Dr. Phillip Kavanagh and his colleagues have examined the relationship between the three Dark Triad personality traits and attitudes towards animal abuse and self-reported acts of animal cruelty. They found that the psychopathy trait is related to intentionally hurting or torturing animals, and was also a composite measure of all three Dark Triad traits.[12]
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Atheism, women and the animal rights movement[edit]
See: Atheism, women and the animal rights movement
Irreligion and the treatment of horses[edit]
See also: Irreligion and the treatment of horses
Although horses are seen as an intelligent animal by many and a useful partner in getting work accomplished in many areas around the world, there are irreligious countries that also see horses as a source of food.
[13] For more information, please see:
Irreligion and the treatment of horses
Irreligion and the consumption of horse meat[edit]
See: Irreligion and the consumption of horse meat
Irreligious Britain, sexual mutilations of horses and stabbings of horses[edit]
Dietary practices of atheists[edit]
Christianized world and dog/cat meat eating[edit]
In the Christianized world (or countries that have a Christian legacy), where Christians make up the majority of the population, dog/cat eating is not common.
Atheism and veganism[edit]
See: Atheism and veganism
Wuhan coronavirus epidemic: Tens of thousands of pets in China to be slaughtered by authorities[edit]
See also: Atheism and the coronavirus pandemic
Kosher meat slaughtering methods and the priorization of animal welfare[edit]
See also:
Religion and veganism[edit]
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External links[edit]
Dog meat trade in China and Vietnam:
Cat meat trade in China and Vietnam:
Theism and animal suffering:
References[edit]
- ↑ The Chinese Government Must Stop Pet Dogs Being Stolen For Meat by JERRY GADIANO, Unilad website
- ↑ Chinese Dog Meat Festival | Undercover Cameras Reveal Brutality Chinese Dog Meat Festival | Undercover Cameras Reveal Brutality, ABC News, YouTube
- ↑ *Top 50 Countries With Highest Proportion of Atheists / Agnostics (Zuckerman, 2005)*A surprising map of where the world’s atheists live, Washington Post By Max Fisher and Caitlin Dewey May 23, 2013
- ↑ *Chinese Dog Meat Festival | Undercover Cameras Reveal Brutality Chinese Dog Meat Festival | Undercover Cameras Reveal Brutality, ABC News, YouTube
- ↑ 375 cats saved from Chinese slaughterhouse after tip-off from heartbroken cat lover, Humane Society International website
- ↑ The cat meat trade in China, Daily Mail
- ↑ DROWNED LIKE RATS Gruesome pictures show a cat meat market in Vietnam where terrified pets are caged, killed and cooked, The Sun, March 2018
- ↑ Inside a sickening cat meat market: Photos reveal the horror of barbaric cat trade, Express, 2018
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Robert D. Hare (2011). Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us. Guilford Press, 52. ISBN 978-16062-35782.
- ↑ Why Do You Believe in God? Relationships between Religious Belief, Analytic Thinking, Mentalizing and Moral Concern by Anthony Ian Jack , Jared Parker Friedman, Richard Eleftherios Boyatzis, Scott Nolan Taylor, Plus One, March 23, 2016
- ↑ Correlates of psychopathic personality traits in everyday life: results from a large community survey by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Robert D. Latzman, Ashley L. Watts, Sarah F. Smith, and Kevin Dutton, Frontiers of Psychology, 2014
- ↑ [The Psychology of Animal Torture] by Mark D. Griffiths Ph.D., Psychology Today, Nov 23, 2016
- ↑ 21 Intriguing Horse Meat Consumption Statistics
- ↑ Most atheists are not white & other non-fairy tales, Discover magazine
- ↑ Top 50 Countries With Highest Proportion of Atheists / Agnostics (Zuckerman, 2005)
- ↑ A surprising map of where the world’s atheists live, Washington Post By Max Fisher and Caitlin Dewey May 23, 2013
- ↑ Vegetarianism by country