RE: When is a Religious Belief Delusional?
August 31, 2018 at 5:59 pm
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2018 at 6:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The difference being social pressure and societal acceptance, not the nature of the belief. The beliefs themselves aren't even advantageous - conformity in any belief can have the belief traded out for any other (and there are plenty). None of these beliefs, meanwhile, has resisted change over time. It's not true, for example, that the "best beliefs" - to use a quick term, are those that have been most successful at retaining members, because the beliefs aren't the same as they were even a decade prior.
The institutions, the apparatus of conformity, it's ability to service the religious economy (and it's changing needs)... is..again, the operative mechanism.
In another example of a delusion, however, the faithful think that it's -god- or the beliefs of the moment, themselves... doing all of that. Yes, they've been indoctrinated, but what have they been indoctrinated into? A delusional belief system.
The institutions, the apparatus of conformity, it's ability to service the religious economy (and it's changing needs)... is..again, the operative mechanism.
In another example of a delusion, however, the faithful think that it's -god- or the beliefs of the moment, themselves... doing all of that. Yes, they've been indoctrinated, but what have they been indoctrinated into? A delusional belief system.
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