Anti-atheist prejudice falls out of supernatural-monitoring trust logic

Evidence

Hence, John Locke’s sentiment in Letter Concerning Toleration can be captured by the fallacious but intuitively compelling idea in the religious public’s imagination that freethinkers are de facto freeriders. In other words, prejudice against atheists is a direct consequence of the fourth principle of supernatural monitoring, discussed earlier. It essentially says, don’t trust people who don’t trust in God. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 245

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the fourth principle of supernatural monitoring as the mechanism producing anti-atheist prejudice — a precise causal anchor for the reader’s argument.