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Emotional Atheism
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From God Predicts Decreased Belief إن من أهم أسباب إلحاد الأجيال المتأخرة هو "سوء الظن بالله" ، ولهذا الظن صور كثيرة، وتأتي الدراسات الأكاديمية المتخصصة لتؤيد هذا الأمر.
One of the most important reasons for Atheism later generations is "mistrust in God," That's probably many pictures, come specialized academic studies
To support this matter. When asked to provide reasons for their belief or disbelief in God’s existence, most people tend to emphasize rational, objective reasons over personal or Emotional ones. However, a growing body of empirical evidence suggests the existence of Emotional Atheism (Novotni & Petersen, 2001)—a pattern in which some people resolve conflicts with God by deciding that God does not exist. We became interested in this topic based on an early study of anger toward God among undergraduates (Exline et al., 1999) which revealed a counterintuitive finding: Those who reported no belief in God reported more grudges toward God than believers. At first glance, this finding seemed to reflect an error. How could people be angry with God if they did not believe in God? Analyses of several other datasets, including a large national dataset based on the General Social Survey, revealed similar patterns: Lower levels of belief in God were linked with greater anger toward God. When undergraduates in one study recalled a negative event from their lives, reports of anger toward God were clearly associated with self-reported drops in belief. Furthermore, when we looked only at those who showed some drop in belief, belief was least likely to recover for those who reported that they were angry toward God and had chosen to turn away from God. In addition, an open-ended question revealed that 9% of those who had resolved negative feelings stated that they had done so by deciding not to believe in God. These data raise the possibility that anger toward God—and subsequent decisions to withdraw—may prompt reduced belief in God’s existence.
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