Der christliche Glaube an die von Gott festgelegten Rollen für Männer und Frauen ist eng mit der Unterstützung des nationalen Bevölkerungswachstums und der Einschränkung reproduktiver Rechte verbunden. Diese religiösen Ansichten prägen nicht nur die Familiendynamik, sondern auch die Präferenzen für die Regierungspolitik.
New study links Christian complementarianism to support for severe reproductive restrictions
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Not a religion. A cult.
**New study links Christian complementarianism to support for severe reproductive restrictions**
A recent study published in the [*Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion*](https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.70073) explores how a specific religious worldview about gender roles influences attitudes toward reproduction and the nation. The findings provide evidence that beliefs in divinely ordained roles for men and women are strongly tied to support for national population growth and restrictions on reproductive rights. This connection suggests that these religious views shape not only family dynamics but also preferences for government policies.
People holding these views tend to feel alarmed by declining birth rates, viewing high fertility as a matter of national welfare. “For example, people who fully embrace complementarian beliefs are 30 percentage points more likely to express pronatalist attitudes than people who reject complementarianism entirely,” the researchers explained. “That’s after controlling for religious, political, and demographic factors.”
In addition to a general desire for more babies, complementarianism is linked to specific demographic preferences. “Complementarianism is strongly related to pronatalism, the belief that more children should be born in the US. But not just any children, White and Christian children specifically,” Walker and Djupe pointed out.
The authors observed that this religious worldview translates into support for strict government control over women’s fertility. “Complementarians are also more likely to oppose birth control access; to support abortion bans, regardless of the stage of pregnancy; and to support bans that would prevent women from traveling out of state to receive abortion care,” Walker and Djupe noted. “This is a worldview tailor-made to counter feminism and to yoke women to the home and reproduction.”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jssr.70073
Get your stupid ass beliefs out of our government.
they can have their beliefs and live by them – its when beliefs are imposed onto others that i take issue with
This is the second article in as many days whose thesis is that human ideology shapes human behavior.
People who believe in personal social hierarchies want those hierarchies enforced on society…
Now show the overlap for those same people with sexual abuse and abuse of children. That vein diagram is basically just a circle.
Focus on your own damned family.
Freedom of religion by default includes freedom from religion.
Americam Christianity is a cancer.
Throughout recorded human history, political leaders have always controlled the manner in which religion is to be administered. Rulers even invented their own God(s) that the people were to worship as the rulers commanded. Nothing new under this Sun.
They like hierarchies in general. They are fine being near the bottom as long as someone else is below them.
Yeah, religion sure is a cancer on our species
“Personal beliefs influence support for policy.” What an obvious truism. Everyone has personal beliefs that may or may not be religious in nature that influence their support for policies.
Separation of church and state doesn’t mean separation of personal religious beliefs and voting habits.
If my religious belief is that murder is wrong then that doesn’t mean I can’t vote for policies that are against murder.
If christian men were capable of getting pregnant themselves, birth control would be available for free in vending machines.
This is an EXCELLENT way to turn people off to religion and no doubt the reason for its decline. There’s a gross lack of respect for personal autonomy. Not everyone wants to have a „traditional“ family structure and the more the religious community pushes it, the more people will revolt. This is why research is important.
We know. I say this constantly, and I’m always met with disbelief and dismissal. Christians in our government make it very clear that they do not want women to have rights of any kind. But because they attack these rights in a less overt way than their Muslim counterparts in other countries, everyone just pretends it’s not a real problem.
Yet the same people most likely have no qualms about indulging their own libido. For everyone else sex is for procreation, for them it can still be recreation, they just ignore any consequences.
Man serves God and the wife serves the man is a saying I’ve heard a lot in certain churches
Religious people, and Christians shine in this respect, are twats.
Governance ought be anchored in evidence-based practice, not in magical thinking.
Fight the crusade. Jack off to furry art.
This is why I wont vote for ultra-religious people for any political position regardless of political affiliation. I don’t believe they can separate their beliefs from reality.
„People who hold shallow and poorly thought out religious views are drawn towards shallow and poorly thought out governance.“
Got it.
It is really difficult to understand how this isn’t the absolute most apparent thing, ever.
Christians being a câncer, as always.
I’ve always tried to give religion its space for people to find whatever they need to be happy in it but my genuine honest opinion is that religion should be removed from all parts of leadership and all levels of our society that isnt 100% religous.
Watching people use religion to justify the horrible things they do to others over and over again has left a bad taste in my mouth. We never have a consensus that these people are bad when they hide behind religion. We’ve seen almost every powerful group use religion to control their populace and obscure their own horrific deeds and each time they have this enormous following of what could basically be boiled down to cultists ready to literally die for these people who would only give them thoughts and prayers. I think its one of the great failures of the human race that we havent figured out how to let people belive in their god while not trying to murder them. It doesnt seem that hard to do, yet we see in real time, a man go around the globe trying to convice everyone that the end of the world is somehow a good thing. Then we have regular people who will harm you if able and condem you if not should you chose not to live your life according to their religious doctrine. Saddening.
Why does it seem like nearly every post here lately is pro-religion and anti-woman?
Love how they base this on Christianity but won’t touch on the fact that Muslims are just as bad if not worse since they practice poligamy. Abortion is punishable by death in many Muslim countries and many forbid education passed a certain age for girls. But hey mentioning double standards is islamaphobic
The same group of people that say nonbelievers will be tortured for all eternity…believes in growing the population. Yep. Sounds about right
„Peoples beliefs shape how they vote“ wow..a truly powerful and shocking development
Why does this only single out christians?
Historically, the biggest victims of Christian religious persecution have been other Christians.
Unfortunately they think birthing humans is the same as raising them. They never think about the consequences or details that involve raising happy children.
Cool, can we have studies on what actually helps to combat this and persuade people to stop wanting that now?
Fork found in kitchen.
Of course deeply rooted beliefs and worldviews influence on who you vote for and how you think the world should work.
Some religious ppl are so exhausting. Just leave us alone! You would not want to live by my deeply held beliefs on what is appropriate in a society so I won’t ask you to and I expect the same from you!
Study confirms water wet.
And by national growth they mean more people who look and think like them.
Which is weird since the New Testament specifically says do not get married and do not have kids. (1 Corinthians 7:8, and again in 1 Corinthians 7:25-28)
>“Complementarianism is strongly related to pronatalism, the belief that more children should be born in the US. But not just any children, White and Christian children specifically,” Walker and Djupe pointed out.
Utterly unsurprised that these beliefs are correlated with white nationalism.
Peoples‘ understanding of the moral cosmos influences their policy preferences? Shocking news!
TLDR: Christofascists tend to support fascism.
Religious views also align with the human need for sameness where aligning with the familiar was essential for safety in an ‚us and them‘ mentality … The brain classifies through ‚the same or different‘ and the world has changed with massive populations cohabiting, meaning adjustments in thinking classifications …
We see this in secular v religious in politics where the insistence on sameness is still the default position… The same appearance, beliefs, lifestyles, social position, etc dominate whereas secular thinking is acknowledging differences and insisting on separating the personal and private from decisions being made for the population as a whole .. for the common good of the many without bias towards sameness.. the new sameness that the brain can cope with is that we are all human with varied appearances and beliefs.
Quite contradictory to have religions accepted in political parties as dominant forces over other citizen’s lives.
TLDR; cult’s gonna cult.
Never thought Id see conservatives come straight out and say they wanted to politically induce more teen pregnancies but that is now the country they apparently wanted all along
Interesting that the national population growth they want cannot consist of immigrants, even Christian immigrants. You’d think that wouldn’t matter.