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@mcjulie @LarissaFae Except it persists even in religions that achieve high levels of social control and severely punish people who dissent openly. I suspect it's more insidious: investing belief in something overtly untrue takes huge emotional/psychological investment.On twitter.com
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@mcjulie @LarissaFae And with huge emotional/psychological investment comes great resistance to admitting a false belief. The Emperor's New Clothes and all those bureaucrats who can't admit they see nothing after everyone else has claimed to see them... and then can't admit they were pretending.Permalink On twitter.com
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@mcjulie @LarissaFae I've read that a painful/expensive sacrifice as the cost for joining a group makes people value that group membership more. I think there's a degree of that involved: claiming you believe something you cannot even understand feels like it could fit into this sort of dynamic.Permalink On twitter.com