From here:
Atheists are almost universally perceived as untrustworthy, and only rapists rate as low, a new study has found.
“Where there are religious majorities — that is, in most of the world — atheists are among the least trusted people,” said lead author Will Gervais, a doctoral student in psychology at the University of British Columbia. “With more than half a billion atheists worldwide, this prejudice has the potential to affect a substantial number of people.”
The study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, combines information collected from six different surveys.
This should not come as a surprise.
After all, if atheists are correct and there is no God, then trustworthiness is merely a genetic accident which would generally be overridden by the callous self-interest that inevitably results from natural selection – and who better to indulge callous self-interest than those who wholeheartedly embrace this view.
If atheists are not correct and there is a God, why trust a group of people who base their entire lives and behaviour on a monumental error of judgement?
There’s a connection here. It’s natural selection, as you say. Most of the militant atheists are strict materialists, for whom evolutionism is … well, I’d say god … And (many of them believe) evolution encourages, even requires, rape … and to attempt to stand in the way of evolution is … well, I’d say a sin …