American Public Believes Atheist = Rapist

She doesn't seem very worried.

Christians are often offended  when atheists and other free thinkers take measures, rhetorically and legally, to defend themselves and their civil rights.  Too often believers say that the free thought community is over sensitive and has a persecution complex.  Her is one more piece of evidence that one of the last groups you can hate with impunity in America are the Free Thinkers.

In a new study, the only group participants found as untrustworthy as nonbelievers were rapists. According to the Vancouver Sun, University of British Columbia researchers conducted a total of six experiments on 350 Americans and 420 UBC students, of varying religions (67% of the Americans were Christian). In one experiment, they presented participants with the story of an "archetypal freerider" who cheats and steals a lot, and asked what group they thought that person might belong to. Participants were more likely to categorize the person as an atheist than as a Christian, Jew, Muslim, gay person, or feminist (some of the groups were chosen because they were "often described as threatening to majority religious values and morality"). Only rapists fared as poorly — participants were about as likely to put the "freerider" in this group. According to the study, "People did not significantly differentiate atheists from rapists."

Full Article: http://jezebel.com/5864303/people-think-atheists-are-just-as-bad-as-rapists-christ?tag=religion