Mr. Pinker, you know the answer to your question: thinking. How we secularists use our brains. We depend on logic not magic. Makes a big difference.
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But they've only shown that secularisation preceded development, not 'propelled' it. The WVS questions presume Abrahamic religion, e.g. in China many would answer 'no' but still engage in 'religious' practices (and the 4 key examples are indeed from Christian/Islamic countries)
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A garden-path tweet from the linguist! After "Ruck et al ordered chicken and egg..." I was waiting for, "while I chose the word salad."
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"If religious institutions can become less of a conservative force and embrace modern cultural values, then they could provide moral guidance for the economically prosperous societies of the future." Witness the astonishing growth of the Episcopal Church, amirite?
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They’re basically ignoring the past 150 years of the mainline denominations in America
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The grass is always Pinker
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The piece ends up tagging human rights as a mark of the secular. Yet we can't see them with either an electron microscope or a Hubble telescope. Something as visible as gods coughed up by "science" as opposed to "religion" & cashed out in graphs.
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Anyone else having trouble with this premise in the paper "a person’s religious belief will always reflect their formative years. They unwittingly carry a fossilised version of how secular the society of their childhood was, right into the modern day." wow: always & unwittingly.
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I have yet to see a single comment in this thread which shows any critical analysis of the actual paper. Or even any indication that the paper was even read. So much for the enlightenment.
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Begs the question: what factors catalyze a shift towards individual rights? The results suggest that that's one of the most important things we could know.
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I have read your tweet several times and I can honestly say it is a string of words, not particularly related, going nowhere and explaining nothing. But I will defend your right to think them! Lol
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Is this an example of consilience?
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Dude, it's just more women starting to work outside the home in more secular countries.
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Russia and China were atheist and yet dirt poor compared to USA. You must define with absolute precision the effects religion has on behavior and it’s absence on Econ. – at Mt. Calvary Cemetary
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But reform hard working values may well have be retained in follow up secularized countries, giving an extra impulse to development.
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