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The American Divide on Empathy (kottke.org)
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Religiously unaffiliated people most strongly believe that empathy is a foundational moral value. Note that doesn't necessarily mean atheists; people who believe in God but don't associate with any particular religion would be in that group. In fact, I can't find any information about whether atheists are included in this survey, or if this was exclusively a survey of religious people.

Interesting (but not exactly surprising) results here. Makes me glad that "religiously unaffiliated" is the fastest growing religion in the U.S.

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The American Divide on Empathy (kottke.org)
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With the exception of white evangelical Protestants (42%), around two-thirds or more of all major religious groups believe that empathy is a foundational moral value for a healthy society, including about eight in ten religiously unaffiliated Americans (83%), members of other non-Christian religions (80%), and Jewish Americans (77%). By contrast, a majority of white evangelical Protestants (54%) believe empathy can become dangerous when it leads people away from building a society guided by God’s truth.