Scientists establish link between religious fundamentalism and brain damage

[Professor Emeritus]

i just started watching under the banner of heaven too, so this is right on the nose.

I read that book and loved it, then got extremely disappointed when I found out that much of the historical side of the book was manufactured narrative without real evidence behind it. Sadly I've found that to be a consistent theme for Krakauer now, who used to be one of my favorite nonfiction authors before I realized that part of the reason he was writing such neat narratives was because he was taking liberty with reality and adding more than could be justified from what he actually knew.

That only goes for the book though - I know nothing about the series. They may have worked harder to factcheck the series than Krakauer did in his book.

And it doesn't change the fact that Mormons (and especially fundamentalist mormons) have to be off their rocker to believe the shyt they believe.

 

[MMS]

Nonsense

Why So Much Science is Wrong, False, Puffed, or Misleading

"The book, while scary and disheartening, is truth-seeking and ultimately optimistic. Ritchie doesn’t come to bury science; he comes to fix it. 'The ideals of the scientific process aren’t the problem,' he writes on the last page, 'the problem is the betrayal of those ideals by the way we do...

www.aier.org

next thread title should be "religious fundamentalists establish brain between damaged scientism link"

We are living in a world of illusion

:whoo:

www.thecoli.com

Noone ever seems to study rhythm outside of music I think

 

[acri1]

Seems plausible to me

But even though religious people don't like to admit it, I think they're mainly motivated by fear of death.


I can understand how someone could be attracted to a belief system that tells them as long as they follow the right religion, death won't be the end and they'll get to meet up with all their deceased relatives (assuming they also followed the right religion) in some paradise after they die. It's very irrational but the emotional appeal is obvious.

 

[Sukairain]

I'm inclined to take the Nietzschean approach to religious belief, specifically to Abrahamic religious belief. He wrote that Abrahamism is a 'slave morality,' i.e. it appeals most to people who are downtrodden in some way in society, because it tells them that everything will be alright when they die. If they would just turn the other cheek and passively accept being kept in a depressed and oppressed situation in the physical world, then they will be rewarded for it in the afterlife.

In my whole family there is only one person who follows an Abrahamic religion, my aunt, who converted to Christianity 15 years ago after her husband died. She suffered a lot of emotional shock and trauma because of his death, and she had been teaching at a Christian school surrounded by nuns for like 20 years before that. Obviously they must have gotten into her head, and then when her husband died the grief pushed her over the edge. So my personal experience conforms with Nietzsche. People who feel weak or helpless in the real world are attracted to religion because it gives them a sense of hope. It's easier to surrender yourself to all the bad shyt going on in your life than it is to take the hard action required to fix all those problems or at least to remove yourself from them.

 

[null]

the majority are stuck in one-level-abstraction-ville. especially brehs that believe in the bible.

of course there is something wrong. not sure if that should be classified as "damage" tho.

relative biological deficiencies are common.

want proof? go try and reason with the average religious person.