Religion and particularly “blind faith” didn’t work on me because…
The way it had been sold to me wasn’t getting through. And particularly after my reaction to the incomprehensible “Eternal Paradise” which made me sick.
This is something all bundled and marketed beliefs that are “for the greater good of the people” have a weakness to. These people can’t be indoctrinated easily. And it’s damn important and good for us isn’t it
The gravity of our values are so integral to how we operate, feel, and view our lives that there is no excuse to second-hand adoption.
Try as religion, environment, and effective storytelling might, nothing will compare to the skeptic’s interpretation of experience.
We must be highly resistant to “herding”
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