Religion and Politics always seem to go together. And they are both dangerous tools in the hands of unscrupulous people.
Here's Thermin Trees via YouTube, describing his own passage from curious child to indoctrinated teenager to clear-thinking adult. The first half sounds like the very common history of most of us from that age group, but ya gotta stay with it until about 18:30 cuz that's where it kinda exploded up in my punkin' head - Religion and Politics are both very meticulous about devising systems intended to hide the manipulative lies on which their power structures are built.
Paraphrasing a little here:
Here's Thermin Trees via YouTube, describing his own passage from curious child to indoctrinated teenager to clear-thinking adult. The first half sounds like the very common history of most of us from that age group, but ya gotta stay with it until about 18:30 cuz that's where it kinda exploded up in my punkin' head - Religion and Politics are both very meticulous about devising systems intended to hide the manipulative lies on which their power structures are built.
Paraphrasing a little here:
What are the tools we use to detect lies?
a) the absence of confirming evidence
b) the presence of conflicting evidence
Loyalty (to faith or ideology) demands that we disregard:
a) the absence of confirming evidence
b) the presence of conflicting evidence
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