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Monday, 11 December 2023

Religionist Sociopathology

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23-12-13 70% of Palestinians Support Hamas Attack on Atrocities in Israel - Oren > .
24-10-7 Konstantin Kisin Off the Fence About Israel’s War - Triggernometry > .
24-10-2 Douglas Murray: A Time of War - Free Press > .
24-8-31 Ex-Muslim Speaks Out Against Radical Islam | Rawan Osman | TBN > .
24-8-21 [Hamas, NOT Israel, committing war crimes & threatening g-cide] - U > .
24-7-12 Melanie Phillips: Britain chooses Labour [Danger to Israel, West] - JNS > .
24-6-22 Muslim historian: We should NOT outlaw 'Islamophobia' | Spectator > .
24-5-2 Suella Braverman [slams] Iran-Sponsored [XIR] Terror Networks | Eylon > .
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Religionist 5th Column ..

Tuesday, 14 November 2023

Saturday, 25 June 2022

Tuesday, 13 April 2021

Predicting USA's Cognitive Decline

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25 years Ago Carl Sagan Predicted The Mess [2015] 2021 Would Be > .
24-2-15 Real DEI (PRA) Program [Divisive Extremist Ideology] - New Discources > .

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance” 


Friday, 19 March 2021

Lucrative Threats for Invented Sin

How the Medieval Church Frightened People Into Obedience > . (.... and still uses threats and un-deliverable promises of reward)

Marketing Superstition .. 

[Caps inserted to differentiate between the institution (C) and places of worship (c)] "The medieval Catholic Church was a mixed bag of corruption, persuasion, and fear-mongering. There are a number of scary historical facts about the Catholic Church, many involving the use of intimidation and coercion against the faithful in an effort to - oddly enough - keep them faithful. Plus, this was a time when [like the modern 3rd world] the majority of people were illiterate and highly superstitious, making it that much easier for the Church to manipulate the population and make them ever dependent upon the Church."


Sunday, 10 January 2021

Stupidity - Functional Underperformance

2010 Danger of science denial | Michael Specter > .
24-2-15 Real DEI (PRA) Program [Divisive Extremist Ideology] - New Discources > .
DISinformation Explosion - Alētheiai >> .
DISinformation, Fakery - Fallax >> .
Unforseen Consequences - Fallax >> .
Truth-Telling >> .

Why some of the smartest [and most of the slower] people can be so very stupid

"What exactly is stupidity? How does it relate to morality: can you be morally good and stupid, for example? How does it relate to vice: is stupidity a kind of prejudice, perhaps? And why is it so domain-specific: why are people often stupid in one area and insightful in another? 
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Stupidity is a very specific cognitive failing. Crudely put, it occurs when you don’t have the right conceptual tools for the job. The result is an inability to make sense of what is happening and a resulting tendency to force phenomena into crude, distorting pigeonholes.
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In at least some cases, intelligence actively abets stupidity by allowing pernicious rationalisation.
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Stupidity will often arise when an outdated conceptual framework is forced into service, mangling the user’s grip on some new phenomenon. It is important to distinguish this from mere error. We make mistakes for all kinds of reasons. Stupidity is rather one specific and stubborn cause of error."
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Stupidity is also compatible with a kind of misguided innovation such as the [attempted imposition or] overly optimistic importation of conceptual tools from a very different place.
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"Stupidity has two features that make it particularly dangerous when compared with other vices. First, unlike character flaws, stupidity [as used by the author] is primarily a property of groups or traditions, not individuals: after all, we get most of our concepts, our mental tools, from the society we are raised in. Once stupidity [such as religion] has taken hold of a group or society, it is thus particularly hard to eradicate – inventing, distributing and normalising new concepts is tough work.
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Dumbness alone is rarely the driving threat: at the head of almost every dumb movement, you will find the stupid in charge.
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Second, stupidity begets more stupidity due to a profound ambiguity in its nature. If stupidity is a matter of the wrong tools for the job, whether an action is stupid will depend on what the job is; just as a hammer is perfect for some tasks and wrong for others. Take politics, where stupidity is particularly catching: a stupid slogan [MAGA, "Lock Her Up"] chimes with a stupid voter, it mirrors the way they see the world. The result is that stupidity can, ironically, be extremely effective in the right [a favorable] environment: a kind of incapacity is in effect being selected for. It is vital to separate this point from familiar and condescending claims about how dumb or uneducated the ‘other side’ are: stupidity is compatible with high educational achievement, and it is more the property of a political culture than of the individuals in it, needing to be tackled at that level."

Monday, 28 December 2020

Authoritarian Personality Dysfunction

Ultra-religionists, no matter the brand of fiction, exhibit higher prevalence of authoritarian personality dysfunction:

Jerusalem rabbi arrested for 'holding women in slavery' 
Israeli police have arrested a rabbi who is suspected of holding around 50 women and children in conditions of slavery. The suspect, in his 60s, was detained in an ultra-Orthodox district in central Jerusalem on suspicion of running a "closed community" where women and children "worked under conditions of slavery". He and eight female accomplices are suspected of isolating the women in a residential complex, along with children up to the age of five, it added. The arrest follows a raid on the complex, where the alleged victims are believed to have been kept isolated from their families. The women had been punished in various ways and had money stolen from them, police said. 

A two-month investigation was launched after police received reports the religious leader had for years committed "severe offences" against those living at the residence, police said.

Predictably, the suspect has denied doing anything wrong.

Thursday, 26 November 2020

con·tra·dic·tion

con·tra·dic·tion
ˌkäntrəˈdikSH(ə)n/
noun
  1. a combination of statements, ideas, or features of a situation that are opposed to one another.
    "the proposed new system suffers from a set of internal contradictions"
    • a person, thing, or situation in which inconsistent elements are present.
      "the paradox of using force to overcome force is a real contradiction"
    • the statement of a position opposite to one already made.
      "the second sentence appears to be in flat contradiction of the first"
      synonyms:denial, refutation, rebuttal, countering
      "a contradiction of his statement"

A List of Biblical Contradictions.
Another List of Bible Contradictions.
The short list: 101 Contradictions in the Bible.

For balance:
10 Bible Contradictions that Aren't.

We've got art too:
An interactive chart of Biblical Contradictions and more.
Download of graphic.

That should do for now.

Coronavirus & CONtrol-freaks

[edited to emphasize realities] The Road to Coronavirus Hell Was Paved by Evangelicals CONservative, proselytizing pseudo-Christians: DUHnocchio's response to the pandemic has been haunted by the science denialism of his [odiously] ultraconservative religious religionist allies.

Putin's-Puppet-in-Chief "rose to power with the determined assistance of a movement that denies science, bashes government and prioritized loyalty over professional expertise. In the current crisis, we are all reaping what that movement has sown.

At least since the 19th century, when the proslavery theologian Robert Lewis Dabney attacked the physical sciences as “theories of unbelief,” hostility to science has characterized the more extreme forms of religious religionist nationalism in the United States. [Why the antagonism to science? Scientific evidence/explanations FALSIFY unfounded religionist "creation" LIES.] Today, the hard core of climate deniers is concentrated among people who identify as religiously conservative Republicans CONservatively religionist RepuGNicans."

[Why the antagonism to science? Scientific evidence/explanations FALSIFY unfounded religionist "creation" LIES.].

"And some leaders of the [decidedly unpatriotic] "Christian" [white] nationalist movement, like those allied with the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship Theocratic Promulgation of Creation, Creatardism, which has denounced environmental science as a “Cult of the Green Dragon,” cast environmentalism as an alternative — and false — theology.

[Why? Scientific evidence/explanations not only FALSIFY unfounded religionist "creation" LIES, but threaten the profits of the Fossil Fuel Corporations that purchase politicians and sponsor AGW-denying propaganda.]

"This denial of science and critical thinking among religious ultraconservatives now haunts the American response to the coronavirus crisis. On March 15, Guillermo Maldonado, who calls himself an “apostle” and hosted Idiot-in-Chief earlier this year at a campaign event at his Miami megachurch, urged his congregants to show up for worship services in person. “Do you believe God would bring his people to his house to be contagious with the virus? Of course not,” he said.""

[Congregate en masse with fellow CONservative, proselytizing pseudo-Christian RepuGNicans because you foolishly believe that a non-existence gives a toss about protecting you from your own deluded stupidity? Go ahead, but don't take ICU beds and ventilators from the more deserving who do NOT have Authoritarian Personality Disorder.]

Wednesday, 25 November 2020

Dangerous pseudo-Christian arrogance

Jerry Falwell Jr — a [chip off the old CONservative blockhead and] "staunch ally of UNpresident Ignoramus-in-Chief and an influential voice in the [power-mongering CONservative] evangelical proselytizing pseudo-Christian world — reopened Liberty "University" last week, igniting a firestorm. As of Friday, Dr. Eppes (the physician who runs Liberty’s student health service) said, nearly a dozen Liberty students were sick with symptoms that suggested Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Three were referred to local hospital centers for testing. An additional eight were told to self-isolate.

As of 8 p.m. on March 29, of those three students tested, one was positive, one was negative and one student’s results are still pending, according to Dr. Eppes, who added that the student who tested positive for Covid-19 lives off campus."

[Did the brainwashed fool imagine that praying to a non-existent Sky Daddy would protect his profits?]

"For critical weeks in January and February, the nation’s far right wrong dismissed the seriousness of the pandemic. Falwell derided it as an “overreaction” driven by liberal desires to damage LIAR-in-Chief."
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"The university was founded by Falwell’s INfamous father as a bastion of social CONservatism, one that was unabashedly combative as it trained what it called “Champions for Christ.” If anything, the younger Falwell has made it more so since his father’s death."
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"Falwell runs Liberty his own way, and his word is law. Professors are not tenured and can be fired at will. The [Falwellian] Badministration controls the student newspaper."

Decline of Christian Religiosity

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25-5-25 The End of Christianity in Europe - Versed > .