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Reducing variation around the mean seems more like sermonizing’s function. It makes it easier to do nothing than to do the wrong thing.
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Sermonizing is effective ať changing the beliefs of the sermonizers. It is important to mass movements like communism and Christianity to have people continually publicly espouse their beliefs. “Virtue” is orthogonal and subjective.
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Seems like a straw man argument. No one — especially not religious people—-makes claims like that about “sermonizing” alone. “Sermons” can function as *components* of effective civil rights movements.