I don’t think people who reject religion escape the effect of endorsing any substitute philosophy or any philosophy at all, that is ingroup favoritism. It’s a fact of life that merely existing in a specific group will incline you towards that bias. https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/chapter/ingroup-favoritism-and-prejudice/ …
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Identifying as a Muslim inevitably involves showing ingroup favoritism, granted you are not ashamed of being one. Instead of saying “not all Muslims are like this”, spending a little more effort connecting the dots between ingroup favoritism and outgroup discrimination is needed.
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Being in this state of having to constantly protect Islam against the threats of “modernity” and “liberalism” profoundly amplifies this bias, so that we can never succumb to the weakness of criticism, especially when it comes from people belonging to the two aforementioned groups
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A working pluralist society involves the ingrouping of all of its members at some fundamental level. In the course of the enlightenment, central European Christianity had to be give up its totalitarianism, and society itself was secularized. Rolling that back is not an option.
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