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Analytic thinking can decrease religious belief: UBC study

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05-26-2012 3:05 PM 		Reply to: Message 2 by Jzyehoshua
05-26-2012 4:16 AM

Re: Weasel Word
Jzyehoshua writes:
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Religion like political beliefs or any kind of major worldview is too often the result of second-hand information where people simply rely on someone else to do their thinking rather than considering the evidence for themselves and reaching their own conclusions.
Exactly. That's why aberrations like creationism exist. Bad thinking makes for bad theology.
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On the bright side, the experiment suggests that maybe bad thinking "can" be cured.
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