How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks the Brain

[metalwolf]

How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks the Brain

If we want to inoculate society against the harms of fundamentalist ideologies, we must start thinking about how they function in the brain.

www.psychologytoday.com

In moderation, religious and spiritual practices can be great for a person’s life and mental well-being. But religious fundamentalism—which refers to the belief in the absolute authority of a religious text or leaders—is almost never good for an individual. This is primarily because fundamentalism discourages any logical reasoning or scientific evidence that challenges its scripture, making it inherently maladaptive.

 

[occupied]

Moral certainty is extremely attractive to the weak minded.

 

[surada]

How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks the Brain

If we want to inoculate society against the harms of fundamentalist ideologies, we must start thinking about how they function in the brain.

www.psychologytoday.com

In moderation, religious and spiritual practices can be great for a person’s life and mental well-being. But religious fundamentalism—which refers to the belief in the absolute authority of a religious text or leaders—is almost never good for an individual. This is primarily because fundamentalism discourages any logical reasoning or scientific evidence that challenges its scripture, making it inherently maladaptive.

A theocracy would undermine our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

 

[Mashmont]

How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks the Brain

If we want to inoculate society against the harms of fundamentalist ideologies, we must start thinking about how they function in the brain.

www.psychologytoday.com

In moderation, religious and spiritual practices can be great for a person’s life and mental well-being. But religious fundamentalism—which refers to the belief in the absolute authority of a religious text or leaders—is almost never good for an individual. This is primarily because fundamentalism discourages any logical reasoning or scientific evidence that challenges its scripture, making it inherently maladaptive.

This is nonsense. If something is right, it's right. Morality doesn't shift. Jesus' did not equivocate in His teachings. The only wise path is to be a fervent and enthusiastic practitioner of Jesus' teachings of morality, compassion, and love. And this does include hard-and-fast rules. And since Jesus' teachings are 100% truth, all valid science will agree with it.

 

[johngaltshrugged]

According to your own definitions, progressive ideology is the main source of religious fundamentalism.
From "climate change" to clot shots to massive election fraud, no amount of evidence & proof is ever enough to convince these cultists that everything they base their beliefs on is nothing but lies, propaganda & ignorance

 

[whitehall]

The term "fundamentalist" is a cliche. Jim Jones was a religious fundamentalist that left wingers embraced. President Carter was a believer among left coast politicians. Jones was a psychotic mass murder.

 

[fncceo]

I am a moderate fundamentalist.

I believe that anyone who doesn't adopt moderation in all things should be castrated and put to a horrible, lingering death.

 

[yidnar]

Moral certainty is extremely attractive to the weak minded.

democrat women have full beards ...

 

[Hurricanelover]

And you man hating feminist want to end the most evolutionary element of our entire society with ending the family. You want to cause more crime in our cities, you want to destroy peoples lives and cause all imaginable mental illness.

I'd rather live in a religious land that respects human realities.

 

[bodecea]

How Religious Fundamentalism Hijacks the Brain

If we want to inoculate society against the harms of fundamentalist ideologies, we must start thinking about how they function in the brain.

www.psychologytoday.com

In moderation, religious and spiritual practices can be great for a person’s life and mental well-being. But religious fundamentalism—which refers to the belief in the absolute authority of a religious text or leaders—is almost never good for an individual. This is primarily because fundamentalism discourages any logical reasoning or scientific evidence that challenges its scripture, making it inherently maladaptive.

Look what it does to Muslims.

 

[Hurricanelover]

democrat women have full beards ...
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These people want to destroy reality and turn it upside down to the point where everyone just ends up killing themselves.

 

[bodecea]

This is nonsense. If something is right, it's right. Morality doesn't shift. Jesus' did not equivocate in His teachings. The only wise path is to be a fervent and enthusiastic practitioner of Jesus' teachings of morality, compassion, and love. And this does include hard-and-fast rules. And since Jesus' teachings are 100% truth, all valid science will agree with it.

Morality included slavery...at one time. Morality included with hunting ...at one time. Morality included child labor...at one time. Morality included torture to get con-fessions...at one time. Morality included slaughter of native women and children ...at one time. Morality included priests having their way with defenseless children...at one time.

Is that still YOUR morality?

 

[bodecea]

democrat women have full beards ...
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Show us your pic, Quasimodo.

 

[yidnar]

Morality included slavery...at one time. Morality included with hunting ...at one time. Morality included child labor...at one time. Morality included torture to get con-fessions...at one time. Morality included slaughter of native women and children ...at one time. Morality included priests having their way with defenseless children...at one time.

Is that still YOUR morality?

for democrats the baby in the womb [just as slaves were] is viewed as less than human therefor deserving no protections or rights .

 

[yidnar]

Show us your pic, Quasimodo.

 

[yidnar]

Show us your pic, Quasimodo.

thanks for shaving your beard off for your avatar picture ..

 

[Mashmont]

Morality included slavery...at one time. Morality included with hunting ...at one time. Morality included child labor...at one time. Morality included torture to get con-fessions...at one time. Morality included slaughter of native women and children ...at one time. Morality included priests having their way with defenseless children...at one time.

Is that still YOUR morality?

Total nonsense. Thankfully, public approval of neanderthal abortion will erode to nothing, just like with slavery.

 

[metalwolf]

Morality included slavery...at one time. Morality included with hunting ...at one time. Morality included child labor...at one time. Morality included torture to get con-fessions...at one time. Morality included slaughter of native women and children ...at one time. Morality included priests having their way with defenseless children...at one time.

Is that still YOUR morality?

Didn't at one time Religious fundamentalists tortured anyone who's scientific views they felt were heresy?

Also didn't Christians also used to conquer tribes they felt were "pagan" to either convert them to Christianity or for their gold?

God, Glory and Gold – The Motivation of the Spanish Conquistadors | World History

worldhistory.us

 

[Mashmont]

Didn't at one time Religious fundamentalists tortured anyone who's scientific views they felt were heresy?

Also didn't Christians also used to conquer tribes they felt were "pagan" to either convert them to Christianity or for their gold?

God, Glory and Gold – The Motivation of the Spanish Conquistadors | World History

worldhistory.us

Let's discuss the 150 million murdered in the last century by atheist governments, shall we?

They never want to.

 

[metalwolf]

Let's discuss the 150 million murdered in the last century by atheist governments, shall we?

They never want to.

In 1857, A Mormon Militia Slaughtered 120 Innocent People — Then Blamed The Native Americans

The Mountain Meadows Massacre has been described by historians as "the most hideous example of the human cost exacted by religious fanaticism in American history until 9/11."

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