Hosted by Bill Reel The Cognitive Dissidents Podcast will tend to focus more on the psychology of religious belief and the mechanisms in place that encourage us to hold that belief. Time spent placing these mechanisms in the context of cognitive and faith development. Once we see how these mechanisms work, we can begin to open our eyes more to truth and to the reality and the beauty that lies beyond rigid dogmatism.
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Hosted by Bill Reel The Cognitive Dissidents Podcast will tend to focus more on the psychology of religious belief and the mechanisms in place that encourage us to hold that belief. Time spent placing these mechanisms in the context of cognitive and faith development. Once we see how these mechanisms work, we can begin to open our eyes more to truth and to the reality and the beauty that lies beyond rigid dogmatism.
Cognitive Dissidents: 007: Religious Schizophrenia
Cognitive Dissidents
30 minutes 55 seconds
7 years ago
Cognitive Dissidents: 007: Religious Schizophrenia
Today we talk about the religious mechanism of doublespeak. The idea that a religious institution benefits from seeming holding multiple contradictory perspectives at the same time. That by having multiple contradictory messages simultaneously you maintain deniable plausibility on the problematic nature of any one issue perspective. Elder Christofferson’s talk that included Amish and Mormon Shunning
Cognitive Dissidents
Hosted by Bill Reel The Cognitive Dissidents Podcast will tend to focus more on the psychology of religious belief and the mechanisms in place that encourage us to hold that belief. Time spent placing these mechanisms in the context of cognitive and faith development. Once we see how these mechanisms work, we can begin to open our eyes more to truth and to the reality and the beauty that lies beyond rigid dogmatism.
