Anyone who believes in the fairy tale of religion is going to be more susceptible to other lies.
Comment on Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?
wfh@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Because it’s a cult.
Fascism and religion run on the same hardware. The paramount values are obedience to a higher power, and the core belief in the scriptures/propaganda.
This is why centrist politics never work. Why make a step towards them when they will never make a step towards you?
ickplant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But that doesn’t explain why some people are way more susceptible to being stuck in a cult than others.
Personally I think it’s genetic. It’s some kind of brain feature that leads to people having beliefs that are extremely hard to change. I say this is a feature, not a defect, because you only have to go back a few hundred years to find a society where not having the right belief system can quickly lead to ostracization and death.
It’s a survival tool that has suddenly found itself in the modern informational environment and it can’t cope. See it in action and it’s incredibly tragic.