• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      Are people born with a genetic predisposition towards accepting religious texts? Why are some populations more or less dogmatically religious?

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              3 months ago

              Closer! Access to education helps, certainly. Social tolerance for critical thinking, however, stems from material conditions as well, however.

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                3 months ago

                That’s a pretty naive take. There are plenty of rich religious fundamentalists, and plenty of poor atheists. And plenty of rich societies with very little tolerance for critical thinking

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                  I don’t mean wealth when I say “material conditions,” I mean the whole of how society is organized and the class dynamics that exist within it.