(January 3, 2021 at 5:21 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: We are fundamentally religious creatures, and seem to default towards this mode of thinking when gathered too strongly into groups.
Their religious devotion to Trump is their lack of objectivity and therefore lack of scrutiny toward him, meaning that they engage in confirmation bias and many other logical fallacies in order to create the delusion that he is good and right.
Now if it is in human nature to be delusional then it's something that people need to work on to weed it out. But rather it seems that people are misinformed, there are many lies floating around, they are confused, especially since critical thinking is not exactly taught to people - those are all factors, rather than just people being "fundamentally religious creatures" just as is the case that the countries with least educated people are mostly religious.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
