Hamas's top political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an airstrike in Tehran, Hamas and Iran say, blaming Israel.
  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

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

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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            5 months ago

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

            • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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              5 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

              • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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                5 months ago

                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.