{"id":2009,"date":"2011-01-06T11:09:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T16:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2011-01-06T11:09:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T16:09:41","slug":"people-can%e2%80%99t-read-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2009","title":{"rendered":"People Can\u2019t Read These Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, news organizations like CNN, Huffington Post, and the Washington Post (among others) have been reporting on a study that appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology<\/a>. The study was called, \u201cAnger Toward God: Social-Cognitive Predictors, Prevalence, and Links With Adjustment to Bereavement and Cancer\u201d and it includes atheists anger toward God.<\/p>\n

CNN\u2019s headline for their story was, \u201cAnger at God common, even among atheists.\u201d The reporter didn\u2019t seem to bother to actually read the fine print in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology article. As a result, the CNN headline is misleading.<\/p>\n

But reporters aren\u2019t the only lazy ones. Most people just read the headlines and as a result conclude that the study shows that atheists are angry with God. Even when I wrote an article on this topic for the Atheism 101 Section<\/a>, I found that a lot of people couldn\u2019t get past the headline.<\/p>\n

Even though my article was titled in the form of a question, many people just assumed an answer and attacked the article before even reading it. My article was titled, \u201cAre atheists angry with God?\u201d<\/a> The reasoning for my title is that it is part of the Atheism 101 series<\/a> for religious people to learn answer to questions they have and for some atheists to learn how to deal with questions that are asked of them by religious people.<\/p>\n

But it really is frustrating when people write comments about the article what simply don\u2019t make sense if they actually took a moment to skim through the article (they don\u2019t even have to really read it). It is just pure laziness. ARRRR!!!!
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