<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I don't think we'll make progress on improving human behavior until we soundly reject irrational belief systems.</div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></font></span>Religion's lists of sins and good deeds is fairly sane and rational. Some of what Jesus said I believe in. Ditto some other religious people - Buddha, Confucius, probably Mohammed. It's not all gods and miracles and heavens and hells. I could easily be convinced that many who are religious reject the metaphysics parts and treat church like a social club where you can learn society's rules.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">For irrationality - teach critical thinking, starting in kindergarten. "He hit you so that makes him a bad person?" and discuss. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Religion is not the only area where irrational thinking is displayed, as recently showed by Nobel prize winners in economics. Kahneman and Tversky. And for dealing with the irrational, where should we go but Freud?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class="">On Feb 12, 2018 7:42 AM, "Dave Sill" <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="m_-3158268593635491926quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> <i>Not only did the U.S. government seek to squelch Native American uprisings, it also sought to stop those cultural traits from being passed to younger generations by assimilating them in boarding schools</i></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></span><div dir="auto">There are days when I wonder if this sort of thing might be needed in the American South today. Take over their schools, force their children to attend, and banish all that "evolution is just a theory", "science is this complex thing others impose on you, not something for you to take to heart", and "blindly trust authority, because critical thinking is hard and treasonous" rubbish.</div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"></div></div>
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