Superstition, and it’s ugly codified twin brother religion, rely on the suspension of one’s critical faculties. When someone is going on about how jeebus talks to them or they are feeling the power of god or <insert prurience for inane godbaggy here> or whatever, the topics covered in this video by Qualia Soup come to mind. Confirmation bias, what we all struggle against (or should be struggling against) robs us of the capacity to evaluate situations and events around us in a reasonable way.
You may be “good with god” but you look pretty stupid to the rest of us because we lack the cognitive barriers of faith you’ve erected against reason (aka the world as it is, as opposed to how we want it to be.)
Anyways, QS says this much better than I, thus on to the video!
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March 19, 2013 at 8:33 am
john zande
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March 19, 2013 at 5:14 pm
syrbal
I always get a bit law-enforcement-query-like when I am preached at by the religious right. I want to see what THEY get out of it; because most often, I find very little of any presumed ‘god’ in their act and a whole shitload of male privilege and special ‘get out of ethical jail free’ cards for ‘them and theirs’.
I am frank in saying that I have not been able to render myself free and clear of every bit of religious ideation; but I sure as hell don’t live to insist others walk my walk. I’d like to leave these iron shoes behind myself…
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