A short film that uses repetition to make a very good point. :)
“This is touted as a compelling reason Christianity is believable, but I find it sorely lacking. People convert, even antagonistic people. It happens all the time. Some people even call them traitors. Such conversions prove nothing. It’s even a Hollywood trope, yet notice how none of the plots of those movies felt the need to invoke the supernatural to explain the protagonist’s change.”
On a more cinematic note I think the above trope is one of the reasons why I found the latest Mad Max movie so refreshing – a complete lack of a dude centric plot. It was a nice change of pace not having to watch drama unfold through the bog-standard white male perspective.
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July 5, 2015 at 7:19 am
Reneta Scian
This video (though I forget the original maker of it’s channel) is about the Kallam Cosmological Argument, but it makes a very good point about the kind of psychological manipulation that most religious apologetics use, ones they use outside of just cosmological arguments.
It was this, as well as appeal to belonging, during a time when I was going through what can only be described as hell (the time frame before I came out of the closet). Religion succeeds at converting people specifically because it exploits peoples emotional, and psychological vulnerabilities. It’s funny to me how people site biblical or otherwise real world conversions as evidence of the “Truth of Holy Scripture”, but denounce any similar conversion to other faiths (like from Christianity to Islam, or from secular Christian to a Charismatic Violent Christian Cult).
More evidence of confirmation bias at work, no doubt. I think this is a good, and humorous take at how peoples bias about sources affects their judgement. But I think we should also take a deep look at the ways in which religious organizations exploit people to earn converts. About the various unscrupulous ways they guilt and shame, or elate and exonerate people into faith. There is no one method by which they exploit people for the sake of their ideals, cause and faith. And it’s safe to say that there is both true believers, and those who know their faith is false, doing this in the name of the cause for which they’ve become trapped in.
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