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> If you believe you are not religious, it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted. You had
by Igelau 5y ago
> If you believe you are not religious, it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted.
You had something interesting to say, why'd you have to go and close it out with flamebait?
- tonymet 5y agoFair enough what's a better wording. I'm trying to convey the mental models that are more natural in the religious world and lacking in the secular world (outside of philosophy )
- d0100 5y ago> it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted. Maybe: "it just means that you haven't recognized the secular ideology that you have adopted"?
- 7952 5y agoA better explanation is that those mental models are in fact universal. Things like bias, magical thinking, and dogma exist in all fields of humans life. Science included. But why stop there? Why not question the biological basis for those phenomena? Why not try and understand why we do those things. Light the candle and shine a light on the darkness.