lithodid-Man writes:
I am firmly convinced that Bob Altemeyer's RWA scale explains a lot about the fundamentalist mindset, especially his work with logic problems. If not familiar, he found a correlation between high RWA's (of which most fundies are) and an inability to recognize flawed logic if they agreed with the conclusion. So they tended to claim a syllogism is logical if they believed the conclusion, no matter if one or more supporting statements were false.
I strongly agree, everyone should be familiar with this work. IMO it is the most powerful antidote to the disease of irrationality in existence.
In the extremely rare cases where a fundamentalist or any other anti-logic types actually try to read this work, they will either renounce their ways, or much more likely run away screaming that they are being picked on, never to post again.
This stuff is pure poison to fundies, none in my experience can survive a reading from beginning to end without change.
Can any fundie left here take the challenge? Full text free on the web at the above link.
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider - Francis Bacon
The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God - Spinoza