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In my opinion this also explains a lot of religions.
by Tloewald 14y ago
In my opinion this also explains a lot of religions.
- nanijoe 14y agoHow in your opinion does this explain religion? The mechanism by which people get into religion is very very different from the stuff the original article is talking about.
- damoncali 14y agoI think the parent means that religions are created with outlandish claims (resurrection, xenu, miracles, immaculate conception etc) in an effort to weed out critical thinkers (trouble makers).
- saraid216 14y agoFunny story. I became a believer (after growing up doubtful in church) when I came up with what I felt was a plausible theory for God. I stopped being one when I got bored of the intellectual starvation in church.
- damoncali 14y agoI've always believed that spirituality cannot survive in a church, but that's a discussion for another place entirely.
- podperson 14y agoMy favorite example is Mormonism. By having such a ridiculous story at its center (see the episode of Southpark for details in palatable form) you automatically select a perfect population.
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- lotharbot 14y agohttp://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "In Comments: Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."
- Tloewald 14y agoI have in fact never seen a flame war on this topic. I've seen plenty of flame wars over religion, but not actual discussion of the way in which religions operate at a psychological level. Excuse my ignorance. (Yes, I made a quip, but I was in fact broadening the topic. I.e. the basic post is about a limited phenomenon, and there are much larger cases illustrating the same point.) But I am definitely not alone in making this observation: http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1540,1624 http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1540,1624