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memestryker1 year, 6 months ago
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Yes, I think education is absolutely key. The cultural indoctrination people receive early that is strongly reinforced by powerful others (parents, teachers, ministers, the community, etc.) is difficult to change once it has become reified.
Framing a perceived "force" using the metaphor of a benevolent father by the ancients evolved into fixed beliefs based on patriarchy. For example, it evolved from a tool used to draw analogies and share ideas, into a fixed belief that the priesthood be from the house of David and have male genitalia in Catholicism.
That in turn was reinforced due to the printing press being used initially only to print books of indoctrination, like the Bible, and those books being used to teach literacy.
Some personalities tend to fixate on positions rather than be open to new ideas. That's useful for holding institutions together, protecting writings and traditional ideas so they survive, and maintaining a stable culture over time.
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memestryker1 year, 6 months ago
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Other personalities tend to fixate on a more ideal future rather than preservation, and thus (oversimplified) value change over the status quo to some extent.
Southern Baptist leaders recently decided they'd gotten away from the ancient teachings of Paul. They suddenly regressed, and embraced the past, which resulted in a "regression to the mean," and cataclysmic change to an earlier state of belief. Women lost professorships in their colleges because of a single statement by Paul. We also saw this occur in Iran with Khomenei's rise to power and subsequent regression to ancient Islamic beliefs.
Recent studies suggest certain areas of the brain are activated in religious fervor that are similarly activated by non-religious situations. Also, deconversion may not be just a choice made based on questioning underlying assumptions, identifying inconsistencies, etc. Individual personality may predispose one to even be open to the idea that a choice exists.
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Dionys1 year, 6 months ago
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"Recent studies suggest certain areas of the brain are activated in religious fervor that are similarly activated by non-religious situations."
Mystic experiences tend to share the same are of the brain as music.
However the fact that certain areas of the brain that show activity during religious and non-religious situations doesn't prove that religious experience is invalid.
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