• Dr. Moose
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    1 year ago

    I’m just perplexed how kids are still religious in 2024 with vast amount of free information out there. I thought this cult bullshit was about to end with my generation when we got free, unrestricted information exchange invented.

    I guess you can’t fix irrationality with rationality huh

    • @FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      From my perspective its because people won’t change their beliefs unless they stop benefiting the believer. For people who live in a religious community, there church’s sunday social event is enjoyable, there friends are all religious, there denomination provides a entire moral framework and worldview they don’t even need to think about. Confirmation bias plays a major role in preventing alternate thought to block out other worldviews.

      Only when someone does not gain much benefit from there religion or has a important part of there religion proven wrong, can they process alternative ideologies and either switch to a more useful denomination or stop believing entirely.

    • @Lemming6969@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      Most people are not actually people, they are people-like imposter automatons and they are dumb as hell and can be manipulated like clay.

    • TFO Winder
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      01 year ago

      Religion is not always a cult. All religions are not like Christianity.

      See Hinduism, Buddhism, confussionism