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Feb. 27th, 2007 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spooky_nineResearch links some scriptures to hostile acts
so after the next school shooting, we can ask if he read the old testament, instead of whether or not he listened to marilyn manson or played manhunt.
PROVO — Chances are, not many people in Utah would like to think of scripture as a violent medium that promotes hostility.
But a study of 490 students — 248 of them at Brigham Young University — suggests a correlation between exposure to scriptural violence that is condoned by God and increased aggression.
University of Michigan psychologist Brad Bushman, BYU professor Robert Ridge and three other researchers co-wrote "When God Sanctions Killing," which will appear in the March issue of Psychological Science magazine.
Although the study points to a correlation between scriptural violence and aggression, Ridge said the research is not meant to attack scripture study.
"We were not saying that reading the scriptures is bad, but we were pointing out that if a person was seeing that kind of (violent) literature, it could have some negative effects," Ridge said. "We weren't trying to find fault with religion or the scriptures or anything, but when you think about terrorists and they say, 'God will sit in judgment,' and they sometimes refer to a scripture, our question was, 'Could that really make a person behave more aggressively?' And the answer is, yes, it could."
so after the next school shooting, we can ask if he read the old testament, instead of whether or not he listened to marilyn manson or played manhunt.
