I think that there are both strains - the mystic and the authoritarian. More than that I don't know. I'm mostly ignorant on religion.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
It is food for thought though. How are the mystic and authoritarian elements related? Must they be related?
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Replying to @christianjbdev
Does nonsense (which I'm actually quite fond of) inevitably lead to dangerous orthodoxies and tribalism etc? I just don't know.
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No, I think the dangerous orthodoxies come from a different mentality to a love of woo.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
I think it ultimately comes from an unwillingness to revise beliefs. The world is ever changing so beliefs/behavior need to change too.
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And our understanding of the world is ever evolving. A problem with faith-based and other broken epistemologies is they don't evolve with it
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Replying to @Intrinsic29 @christianjbdev
But I think, as Christian is suggesting, that there are two epistemologies in religious belief.
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One has a faulty premise but works logically from it. Engineers & scientists overrepresented in jihadis.
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The other doesn't want knowledge to exist but is happiest in a fog of subjective truth & fuzzy spirituality.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
I think I may have been unclear above. I meant "I think *the danger* ultimately comes from an unwillingness to revise beliefs.."
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We can all agree on that.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
Yeah I wasn't challenging you in my first two responses in this thread.
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