This isn’t surprising to me.
Obviously, religious people don’t perform acts of kindness simply to rack up goody points so that they can attain some kind of salvation in the end.
BUT, I think society as a whole has a better shot of surviving if people do good because the act itself is good and benefits the group, not because they hope to be rewarded individually later on.
(via LiveScience, hat tip The Awl)
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A woman says confession to a priest at one of the 200 temporary open-air confessionals set up at Madrid’s Buen Retiro park on August 16. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims will gather into Madrid for a giant outdoor mass, launching a six-day youth party for Pope Benedict XVI at a time of economic hardship in Spain. The faithful will pack into the emblematic central Madrid square of Cibeles for the inaugural mass celebrated by Madrid’s archbishop, Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela.
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