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Originally Posted by Sliver
Man, religion is just so ridiculous.
I think part of the awfulness is the fact that it doesn't value truth and reality. It doesn't value growing our understanding of anything. It reverse engineers so many things (every thing?) to make it fit implausibly fit an ancient narrative instead of learning and moving in the direction truth takes you.
As somebody raised areligious, I also cannot wrap my head around how religious people can't see themselves as indoctrinated. Is there a parallel in my life to help me relate to WTF is going on in the brains of religious people on that topic? Like, it's just so weird that they'll look at you dead in the eye and talk about a specific god and entire belief structure that just so happens to be the same one they were brought up with in their homes and in specific institutions whose sole purpose is to make them believe preposterous things. Then they'll hear about Scientology, Moonies, Mormons, whatever and will be all, cAn YoU bElIeVe ThE BS tHoSe GuYs BeLiEvE?!
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It's a fitting-in thing. If you put yourself in an echo chamber where everyone will do everything to justify that belief structure, you start to feel like the crazy one when you don't believe it. They have really developed tactics of guilt and refined them to extend beyond the confines of your own natural life too.