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Why Do Otherwise Intelligent People Succomb to Religion?

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Why Do Otherwise Intelligent People Succomb to Religion?
Edwardo Piet Away
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RE: Why Do Otherwise Intelligent People Succomb to Religion?
October 20, 2015 at 10:11 pm
Indoctrination or wanting something to be true. Wishful thinking, belief in belief itself as a good thing... and also the fact that emotional thinking can lead to many false beliefs and you can be intelligent and still succumb to Emotional thinking....

...furthermore highly intelligent people can also succumb to fallacies and cognitive biases.
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RE: Why Do Otherwise Intelligent People Succomb to Religion? - by Edwardo Piet - October 20, 2015 at 10:11 pm

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