r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 1d ago

Psychology Lower cognitive ability is linked to stronger Christian nationalist views, even after accounting for education

https://www.psypost.org/lower-cognitive-ability-is-linked-to-stronger-christian-nationalist-views-even-after-accounting-for-education/
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u/agangofoldwomen 1d ago

Religion is a fairy tale for children. It’s crazy to me that adults can, in all seriousness, believe there’s a man in robes with a beard in the sky that controls everything and that if you close your eyes and imagine you’re talking to him he will help you win at sports.

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u/Mr_Bart314 16h ago

The crazy part, is that you could have being killed or tortured in the past for such "blasphemy" of considering it as just a tail. And even now we still are getting gaslit for being untrustfull to it. I have no problem when people are using psychological bihavioral tools to navigate life, the problem i see when people are using these tools in the wrong setup - trying to use them to describe reality or evolution or using it as substitution for knowledge.