demanding that your adherents show loyalty by denying facts about the world that provide instrumental advantages to those who possess them is an amazing strategy for a religion to lean into, look how well it’s worked out for thr Catholic Church
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It's also a viable strategy. If you ask followers to affirm obviously true things, ppl who affirm might be rational but not warm to the cause. If you ask them to affirm obviously false things, ppl who affirm are true sheep. Resource-constrained orgs now know who to shake down
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similar to how the Nigerian prince scams screen potential marks: compose the initial email so poorly that no one rational and competent responds
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Dick pics screen out all the people who don’t want to jump straight into arranging to have sex
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those losers
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