(November 14, 2014 at 11:23 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I can't see the video. Would someone summarize, please? It sounds like an awfully big generalization on the face of it.
It ultimately addresses human psychology. It is equating in this context christian reaction to outsiders rejecting their god claim, to the same reaction one might get if they hit on a potential mate and that potential mate did not respond with acceptance. It is addressing Christianity but I'd go further and point out this is our evolutionary behavior of flawed logic.
Humans survive through cooperation, from the family group dynamic, then to community, up to political. We evolved to seek patterns and as babies, in a very literal sense when we cry out for attention, our parents respond with comfort and food and protection. We literally have a positive chemical response in our brains when others respond positively to our interactions, and have other chemicals that produce negative affects in our brains.
"God" as a claim literally is the child in us seeking conformation and protection and control over our environment. The same can be said for political worship or worship of nationalism. It is protecting our ego, or perceptions of what patterns we think work as a species.
You get used to doing things a certain way you think work and give you an advantage on the world around you, you will protect that idea even if it is based on a falsehood, and even if that idea comes at the cost of the harm to others.
