RE: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
July 30, 2020 at 5:56 am
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2020 at 5:57 am by Belacqua.)
(July 30, 2020 at 3:09 am)Eleven Wrote: I imagine when an individual is informed that others offering freedom are the enemy, it can be difficult to think for one’s self.
I imagine that a lot of people in our tribe think that they are a lot more free than they are. It can be difficult to accept this when one's tribe constantly tells you to think for yourself, but also tells you what conclusion you ought to reach.
We suppose that we can examine the world and freely reach conclusions about what's true. In reality our tribe (white Anglophone late-20th/early 21st century) have to choose from a very limited multiple-choice range of options. There are outliers and oddballs, of course, but for the most part our beliefs are pre-arranged by our tribe.
This is why a lot of people in our tribe begin by selecting the option "the Bible is true," and then change over to tick the box "science is true." These are the main options.
And if you define your tribe with more granularity -- say, white Anglophone late-20th/early 21st century college-educated -- the freedom of choice decreases. The "science is true" option becomes more and more the only belief that our tribe allows.