re: #3 calochortus

I think you misunderstood the result analysis. Collectively atheists and religious people were similar. However religious “nice god” people were different from religious “mad god” people. Taken together they cancel each other out in the higher level analysis for religious.

However, this does suggest that the “mad god” people were actually more ethical, on average, than the atheists, and the “nice god” ones were less so, otherwise the religious categories would not have cancelled out to equal the atheists.

….unless there was a weighting to the honesty factor in addition to the absolute numbers, in which case one could have had a less simplistic comparison.

I’d look at the numbers more closely if not for the fact that I know I’m more honest than most of them anyway. ;=)

As to the cause/effect factor, personally I think that is a moot point since it is the people who invent their god to begin with.

Made not in His image but made in Their image.