> The
>reasons driving religious thinking are many (belonging, security, comfort,
> simplicity, and on and on).
Same as the reasons driving scientific thinking, right?
> The reason permitting it is always one, not using
>critical thinking skills. Either having a general pattern of not using
them,
>or putting them on hold for one or a few emotional exceptions.
Do you know how arrogant and naive this sounds? I guess you do:
>After more than a decade of striving to understand religious folks, I can't
>put it any more charitably than that - though I spent a fair amount of
effort
>in the past trying to be more "politically correct".
And if they spend a decade trying to understand you, would you advise them to give up? Get it through your head: they've got something GOOD that you don't got. Maybe you should learn what it is!
...
>Religion (at least as it is traditionally understood), is doomed for
>extinction.
Richard Brodie richard@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/
Author, "Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme"
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