(April 21, 2023 at 11:03 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I think it's a product of innate religious impulse (or compulsion) that the most common response to discovering that the religion of your birth was fraudulent (one way or another)...is to immediately seek out some other fraud who/which will reassert the initial content in a different context.
Deeply motivated reasoning, if it even rises to the occasion of that designation.
I’m not saying this is impossible. I’m still a human being, I’ve had erroneous convictions before, I might be having them now.
But my point is that I never claimed that the earth is 5000 year old. This is not how I operate. fActual evidence / science / reason has always the upper hand.
Ex: I believe in Ayurvedic medicine too. But if I was to do such a thing I would check with a regular doctor to see if it would be harmless in my situation.
But it’s a good thing to be vigilant about these things. I’m not one of them. But there are still people in this world (in the Western world) who believe in things like exorcism although we know for sure that psychotic situation can be cured with a range of very efficient psychiatric drugs.
So yes, I think these debates must take place at all times
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