The purpose of religions is to provide mindfulness (neural economy) by intergenerational transfer of group competitive strategy in non-rational terms that are resistant to attack by reason and sophism, truth and lie, science and pseudoscience, and criticism and competition.
Source date (UTC): 2019-07-25 23:50:07 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1154539357996380163
Reply addressees: @AlanLevinovitz @EPoe187
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1154537227029905408
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@AlanLevinovitz
@EPoe187 It is strange to me that if ideological homogeneity is intrinsically dangerous, religious institutions aren’t ground zero for concern. Universities are at least diverse in principle, if not practice. Religious institutions, by contrast, are echo chambers by design!
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1154537227029905408
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