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In reply to the discussion: Jihadists must die, --- but our real enemy are the Qur’an and Bible. [View all]Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)37. No, it was not utterly destroyed.
http://www.skeptical-science.com/science/internet-damage-religious-beliefs/
Generally people live inside bubbles, self-selected spheres of influence. We naturally gravitate towards those who hold the same beliefs and that becomes our social circle and is where our ideas are confirmed as true by those around us, and that in turn naturally leads us to accept this as further confirmation. However, exposing ourselves to new different ideas, and criticism of the ideas we embrace, will potentially burst such bubbles and change us going to university does exact that and so that is why an increase in the number of people going to university will indeed yield a measurable effect. To not find that correlation would be a huge surprise. In exactly the same way, having access to the Internet has a similar effect, except it happens on a far larger scale. We are suddenly exposed to information sources that are critical of religious beliefs that do not really withstand critical analysis and so that will also clearly lead to people drawing far more rational, better, non-religious conclusions.
Generally people live inside bubbles, self-selected spheres of influence. We naturally gravitate towards those who hold the same beliefs and that becomes our social circle and is where our ideas are confirmed as true by those around us, and that in turn naturally leads us to accept this as further confirmation. However, exposing ourselves to new different ideas, and criticism of the ideas we embrace, will potentially burst such bubbles and change us going to university does exact that and so that is why an increase in the number of people going to university will indeed yield a measurable effect. To not find that correlation would be a huge surprise. In exactly the same way, having access to the Internet has a similar effect, except it happens on a far larger scale. We are suddenly exposed to information sources that are critical of religious beliefs that do not really withstand critical analysis and so that will also clearly lead to people drawing far more rational, better, non-religious conclusions.
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Jihadists must die, --- but our real enemy are the Qur’an and Bible. [View all]
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OP
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